Liberate your music, videos, and more You’ve likely moved onto Netflix or Hulu or some other direct streaming way to watch “television.” But what about that massive collection of discs collecting dust in your AV room? Or the gigabytes of videos you want to share with relatives who haven’t figured out how to watch videos…
Stalker 2 has already received numerous major updates since releasing in November last year. Up to this point, though, most of those code transfusions have focussed on fixing the sequel’s many bugs or elaborating upon its mechanics, such as improving its A-life system or adding dynamic faction wars. But its latest update—Stories Untold—expands the Zone…
Mmm, Marshmallow! Nvidia updated its Shield tablet to Android 6.0 Marshmallow earlier in the month, and now it’s doing the same for its Shield Android TV device via an over-the-air (OTA) roll out, the company announced this week. Marshmallow alone brings several enhancements to Shield Android TV, though the update also includes some other feature…
Earth has been invaded by a race of bio-mechanical beings from outer-space known as Zeetnuks. A group of humans organize themselves to resist the invasion, but soon discover they don’t stand a chance against the enemy’s technological superiority. Combining human and alien engineering, The Resistance sets out to create a fleet of ships to fight…
The founder of PocketOS, a B2B company that handles reservations and payments for car rental businesses, has bemoaned the “systemic failures” that saw an AI agent decide to solve a problem by straight-up deleting his company’s production database, and the backups. I’ll say at the outset that this story has a happy ending, thanks to…
Tea leaf! Strolling down the road in a brand new, unfamiliar town, taking in the sights, you stop in front of a pleasant-looking house. Lovely big oak door, ruby red slate tiles, stone brickwork stained by sunlight and mud. It’s quaint and cosy, the idyllic village house, perhaps home to a young mother who’s just…
This weekend Bungie revealed Marathon’s sci-fi-fueled gameplay to the world. The studio, celebrated for its sublime first-person gunplay and ever-expanding gameplay, is venturing into the extraction-shooter genre when the game launches on September 23. The Marathon premise is simple and enticing: load up your Runner with valuable gear, compete with other players to secure more…
The trial version of Friends of Mana has successfully been dumped. Friends of Mana probably isn’t a title that many Western fans of the Seiken Densetsu/Mana series will be aware of. Released in 2006 for Softbank-compatible feature phones (and for i-Mode and EZWeb services one year later in 2007), the network-based multiplayer RPG was never…
CAD renders hint at a seriously thin device. Clamshell handhelds are all the rage these days, reviving a trend which started all the way back in the early ’80s when Nintendo released its dual-screen Game & Watch range. While many of these new clamshells use the form factor to present the player with two displays,…
Opening in Spring 2024. Earlier this month, Universal Studios revealed the Super Nintendo World ‘Donkey Kong Country Expansion’ would be opening in Japan in Spring 2024. At the time, there was a brief look at what to expect in an official teaser trailer featuring Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong. Now, in an update, a few…