Update: New Pokemon Snap is being developed by Bandai Namco. The Pokemon Company announced today that they have been hard at work reimagining the classic Nintendo 64 title Pokemon Snap for the Nintendo Switch. The new game is titled New Pokemon Snap and allows you to explore beautiful islands full of Pokemon and take photos…
Top Deal: It isn’t a question of whether or not to equip your PC with a solid state drive, it’s just a matter of which one. Your choices grow by the day, including one of the more recent options and today’s top deal, an Intel 750 Series 400GB PICe Internal SSD for $340 with free…
Is the worm finally turning for the poor beleaguered PC gamer, pummelled by painful component pricing? Yesterday, we covered a report claiming that spending cuts at OpenAI had “hit” memory chip prices. Now market analyst Trendforce says that retail DDR5 kit pricing is falling “sharply” in the US, Europe and China. “Recent sharp price corrections…
Thanks to retro company MyArcade. Sega’s Western CEO Shuji Utsumi may have shot down the idea of emulation-based mini-consoles for Saturn and Dreamcast, but that doesn’t mean we’re not getting any Sega-related micro-hardware full stop. Retro hardware firm MyArcade has just announced that it has signed a deal with Sega to produce “retro gaming devices…
Cannonballing into Cannonlake will have to wait If you were hoping for a 10-nanometer successor to Skylake in 2016, Intel has some bad news. Challenges with the new manufacturing process have prompted Intel to delay its Cannonlake release until “the second half of 2017,” according to Intel CEO Brian Krzanich. Cannonlake was supposed to replace…
1-Up. It was all doom and gloom last week as Nintendo’s share price took a slight tumble immediately after the long-awaited Switch 2 reveal. But, ever ones to hit the rebound hard, the Big N has bounced back in style, temporarily hitting the company’s highest recorded share price since listings began — mamma mia. As…
This article was published in the February 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. Slimming down for the Internet of Things Over the past months, I’ve described two of the world’s most powerful microprocessors in this column. But chip makers aren’t always thinking big. Some of the most…
I’m a bit late getting into Crimson Desert, so for the past few weeks I’ve been enviously watching wild videos of players flying, grapplehooking, and riding bears all over the place. It looks like a lot of ridiculous fun. But when I finally started the game, I found my interests quickly turned in a different…
Harold Halibut is one of the more intriguing videogame ideas I’ve seen in a while. It’s “a handmade narrative game about friendship and life on a city-sized spaceship submerged in an alien ocean,” which is interesting in its own right. But it also employs a stop-motion visual style reminiscent of games like The Neverhood or…
The leveraged buyout of EA, which will see private equity firms and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund take control of the megapublisher for $55 billion (and saddle it with $20 billion in debt), has us all wondering what the new owners are going to do with it. As games industry analyst Mat Piscatella said this…