The best gaming monitors are engineering marvels, packed with millions of pixels, that can change colour quicker than you can imagine. You do need a decent graphics card to push them all around, though, but one inspired coder has a solution to this in the form of a game that just uses your monitor’s subpixels….
One of the biggest issues I’ve had since Overwatch first launched 10 years ago has always been just how much coordination the game demands from five or six complete strangers. For better and worse you live and die by your team, a feature that ex-Overwatch boss Jeff Kaplan seems to regret. “One of my hindsight…
Browser’s inside story. Late last year, Nintendo finally brought the former Japan-exclusive ‘My Nintendo’ app to the West, under the new name of Nintendo Store. We all used it to take a brief glance at our playtime breakdowns, then consigned it to the pile of other unused apps in our phone’s storage, thanks to its…
The Kickstarter campaign for Frost Giant’s fledgling RTS Stormgate met its $100,000 goal in 15 minutes. It hit $1 million in under 48 hours. Now it’s crossed the $2 million line. But Stormgate isn’t a brand-new project: Its development was fully-funded prior to the crowdfunding campaign. I recently spoke to Frost Giant communications director Gerald…
Stability is back, baby. Nintendo has rolled out another firmware update for the Switch 2 and it’s first one for the month of July this year. According to the official patch notes on the customer support page, it resolves some fixes tied to the Parental Controls and also includes general system stability improvements, which are…
As predictably as night following day, the last gasps of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has seemingly resulted in lost jobs. A CBC Radio Canada report says WB Games Montreal has eliminated 99 jobs, primarily among Keywords subcontractors working on its QA team. One source told the site that employees were informed there wasn’t…
You’d be forgiven for thinking that 2024 was a year that Intel would prefer to just forget about. Raptor Lake chips self-destructing, Arrow Lake disappointing, and Pat Gelsinger getting the boot (sorry, retiring) were just some of the low points from last year. However, it wasn’t all gloom and doom as it turns out that…
The US government is set to launch a massive, sweeping trade war against Canada, Mexico, and China tomorrow (although Mexico earlier today was given a one-month reprieve), which has the potential to throw international economies into chaos, destabilize world security, and make videogames more expensive. In response, the Entertainment Software Association, the trade group representing…
What’s the verdict? This week marks the arrival of WarioWare: Move It! on the Nintendo Switch. This latest entry in long-running series sees Wario and the gang take on 200 lightening fast microgames. The gameplay in this one requires you to hold the Joy-Con and then move your body about in all sorts of different…
In an effort to provide Marathon with some additional staying power, Bungie said in May that it would be experimenting with PvE and PvE-adjacent offerings as Marathon seasons continue, giving players a chance to see what playing the game is like when they aren’t drenched in sweat. Today, the studio offered some preliminary details about…