We all love a good architecture or two in the PCG hardware office and we especially like AMD’s current Zen 4 and 4c designs. They’re super efficient, clock really high, and their performance in games is spot on. So a report that the chip giant’s next generation of designs will be hitting mass production toward…
Today, games are at a point where the realism of the on-screen racing experience is almost indistinguishable from the real thing; the gleam of a Lamborghini Countach’s chassis, the ray-traced reflections of car headlights on the rain-sprinkled tarmac, the delicious blur of your surroundings as you press to the head of the pack in a…
Game celebrates 30th anniversary this year. The cult hit EarthBound (Mother 2) is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, so naturally, that means that Japan is getting another collaboration between Mother and watch manufacturer Casio. Due for launch on 14 March, 2024 via a lottery purchase system, the ‘Mother Red’s GW-6900‘ follows a previous collaboration…
You’re likely looking to kill Devastators in Helldivers 2 so you can complete your daily Personal Order and get a hefty dose of Medals to spend on your Warbond. The problem is, Helldivers doesn’t really tell you enemy names—unless you get murdered by them that is. Similar to Scout Striders and Chargers in previous Personal…
Nightingale, the latest hit in the sea of co-op survival games, has been running into a number of problems in its recent server stress test. That’s par for the course of any online beta, but the developers noticed something very specific about a significant number of the crashes recorded: No matter whether it was enabled…
Ping-Pong. When Atari first announced qomp2 as a reimagining of the arcade classic Pong, we must admit to feeling somewhat sceptical of the similarities. Yet after completing all 30 levels in the Graphite Lab-developed puzzler, we’re convinced that it is very much the spiritual successor that Pong deserves. It’s a game that only increased its…
Seven games have been released as part of Atari Presents so far. Last week, without warning, Atari launched a brand new label on Steam and GOG called “Atari Presents”, which will see the publisher releasing a bunch of old retro games on the digital storefront. The company describes the initiative as “being geared toward the…
After seeing a record high last month. Nintendo’s shares in Japan have dropped after last week’s report that the Switch successor will now not be launching until Q1 2025 (thanks, VGC). The company posted a record high for shares last month, as ‘Switch 2 fever’ seemed to be sweeping the globe. However, following the claim…
We hope you have tiny hands. YouTuber Elliot Coll has discovered a teeny, tiny Game Boy which makes the Game Gear Micro look positively oversized. Coll – who also runs The Retro Future channel – stumbled across the $85 device while browsing AliExpress. It’s totally unofficial, of course, and appears to be powered by a…
“About 1/4th the size” of a Dreamcast. Sega has yet to announce what its next micro-console will be, but following the launch of the Mega Drive Mini and Mega Drive Mini 2, many people are hopeful it might be a Dreamcast Mini. That might be some way off yet, but that doesn’t mean that modders…