Even though SSDs have been around for years, steadily improving in speed, reliability, and capacity, the good old hard disk drive is still worth considering for your gaming PC. That’s because when it comes to outright storage per buck, there’s nothing that beats an HDD. And in the current situation where DRAM and flash memory…
“We are considering going cashless in the future”. The UK’s Retro Computer Museum has only recently recovered from flood damage, but it has now been hit with another setback. Based in Leicester, the museum was broken into on Friday, 11th of April. A masked intruder broke into the till and stole collection buckets before exiting…
That’s a lot of swords. Back in 2001, Sega published the Smilebit-developed real-time strategy title Hundred Swords, a Dreamcast title which would sadly remain exclusive to Japan. Like many Dreamcast games, it featured online play – a feature that was lost when Sega shut down its servers decades ago. Read the full article on timeextension.com…
(Battle) Royale with cheese. Fortnite is changing. Of course, this is hardly a new realisation. We distinctly remember when Thanos started popping up and things became a little cash-grabby, or when the map was completely remodelled, or when, out of nowhere, a blooming ‘Creator Mode’ made it a challenge in itself just to find the…
The second season of WoW classic’s Season of Discovery (SoD) is live—and the layers are acting up again, this time in Stranglethorn Vale (STV). For the uninitiated, this season brings Blood Moons to STV: 30-minute PvP brawls that tick around every three hours. The main issue? The bouncers at the door aren’t great at their…
The family of prolific videogame voice actor Wes Johnson has shared a GoFundMe to raise money for his hospital bills following a life-threatening medical emergency. Johnson is most famous in the gaming world for his work in Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls series. “On Wednesday, Jan. 22nd, Wes volunteered to host a benefit event for the National…
There are so many reasons I should be excited for Marathon, and many of them are aesthetic ones. I have a particular weakness for the stark, colorful, striking designs of its vectorheart-inspired art style that pairs cold sterility with bold, borderline-obnoxious color intensity. It’s like someone built a game from the desktop wallpaper I had—and…
And this version won’t support online play at launch. It’s that time of year when we often see multiple delays, and with this in mind, we’ve now got an “important update” to share about Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind. Due to “unforeseen” circumstances, the Nintendo Switch release has been “slightly delayed”. Instead of the…
As an arachnophobe and all-around bug hater, Grounded 2 is a terrifying time, so having already spent over 20 hours in Brookhollow Park is a testament to how well it scratches that survival game itch. In that time, I’ve learned a few things that make being shrunk down to size just a little bit easier….
The Blood of Dawnwalker is a pretty excellent RPG, but there’s one aspect of it that not everyone loves: Time. Simply put, it’s a limited resource in the game, which restricts what Coen—that’s you—can do. Our reviewer, Australian editor Shaun Prescott, found it injected a sense of urgency into the game, at least in the…