“I’m hoping WavePhoenix gives a second life to WaveBirds”. Nintendo’s WaveBird wireless controller for the GameCube is considered to be one of the best pads ever made, but as time goes on, finding a controller with its all-important receiver is getting harder and harder—within a reasonable budget, at least. James Smith (AKA loopj) has created…
Just yesterday, Epic Games announced that it had laid off more than 1,000 employees from across the company, as well as cutting over $500 million in contracting, marketing, and closing job posts. According to CEO Tim Sweeney, Epic is still “spending significantly more than [it’s] making,” despite the company running one of the most popular…
Hytale has had a rough go of it, but things are finally looking up. It looked like curtains when Riot canceled the game after seven turbulent years in development, but earlier this month the original owner bought the game back in hopes of realizing the “original vision” that predates Riot’s involvement. Developer Hypixel has been…
Borderlands 4 introduces a bunch of new movement options that you can use in combat, like a glide pack, dash, and, of course, a grappling hook—all games need one, apparently. These are all great additions, and I know I’ll miss them the next time I replay Borderlands 2 or 3 again. Plus, if you’ve made…
Worthy of a jamboree. Nintendo has revealed that Super Mario Party Jamboree has shipped a total of 6.17 million units since its launch on 17th October 2024. This not only makes it the best-selling game of the financial quarter for Nintendo, but it’s also now the fastest-selling Mario Party entry in franchise history (thanks, Pierre485)….
“I was telling [the Xenogears team], ‘Please tone down some of this stuff.’”. Last week, we published the first half of our conversation with the localisation legend Richard Honeywood. In that previous article, we covered the surprisingly eventful journey of how the Australian game developer originally moved to Japan, his memories of his first video…
Whether you’re one for sipping a cuppa while tuning into your favourite creator’s ‘Just Chatting’ stream, or you simply find being the sole viewer of a small streamer oddly compelling, folks really will watch anything. This apparently includes the determined inching forward of a progress bar for a 100-hour BIOS update. The saga began when…
Earlier this year, dark web hackers claimed to have exfiltrated a huge amount of data from the National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) in Tianjin, China. The hacker group FlamingChina claims that it stole 10 petabytes of data pertaining to advanced science and defence agencies within China. However, a number of security researchers have since cast doubt…
The new feature of the preservation program was announced via a blog. Back in November, GOG announced its new preservation program where it revealed a list of games that it was committed to preserving well into the future, by continuing to offer new improvements and updates to keep them compatible with modern operating systems. Well,…
Data security in this day and age was already a joke. Besides one accurately guessed password putting a 158-year old company out of business, hackers keep finding zero-day flaws in Chrome like it’s going out of fashion. Speaking of, the latest data security punchline involves a zero-day flaw in Lovense, an app designed to remotely…