Video Games Chronicles is reporting that Nintendo Switch sales have more than doubled in the first half of 2020. This was in part due to the UK lockdown which saw all console manufacturers benefit but Nintendo came out above its competitors. The arrival of new hardware stock in May also helped fuel sales of the…
This article was published in the September 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. Updating Storage Doc, I own a Samsung EVO 250GB SSD, which Maximum PC recently identified as having new firmware to alleviate memory/performance loss. After upgrading my Samsung Magician suite, the software detected the update,…
In our last PlayStation.Blog post we announced that Gauntlet is coming to PS4 August 11th in the new Gauntlet: Slayer Edition. For a number of months now the Gauntlet team has been working tirelessly to mold the game into what we fully envisioned. The key points we have wanted to address are Hero depth, gameplay…
If anyone knows Final Fantasy XIV like the back of their hand, it is definitely Naoki Yoshida, the producer and director of the game. To mark the latest anniversary of the MMO, he wanted to extend an invite to join him and millions of other dedicated players in enjoying the multiplayer RPG. Knowing that joining…
There comes a point in every cool new and/or retro revival indie genre where there are just way too many to play all of them, even if you love the style: Metroidvanias, boomer shooters, and Vampire Survivors-alikes (bullet heavens?) all spring to mind for me. As a big fan of the genre, I can confidently…
Island life just got a little better. If you’ve been enjoying island life, you’ll be pleased to hear Nintendo has today rolled out a new update for Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream. Although the new patch for the Switch title doesn’t really add anything to the experience, it does come with a lot of fixes….
Revenant Hill made a big impression on us when it was revealed back in May: Associate editor Ted Litchfield said it “looks to press the gas on both autumnal vibes and the themes of early industrial labor organizing,” which actually sounds pretty spot-on when you consider that developer The Glory Society was founded by Night…
Hello there! I’m Gareth Noyce, the developer of Lumo. Lumo is an isometric arcade adventure game that’s coming soon to PS4 and PS Vita. “Isometric arcade adventure game? What’s that, then?” Well, I’m glad you asked! Back in the mid 80s — when computers made beeping sounds and color TVs were wheeled into your home…
One thing I like about some Asus graphics cards is their simplicity. TUF graphics cards, for example, are, for people like me, pure minimalistic and blocky bliss. So it’s saying something that I’ve had my socks and shoes blown off by the Asus ROG Matrix RTX 5090, because retro though it may be, it’s not…
Playing through all of the campaign missions in Battlefield 6 isn’t something you’re likely to do more than once. Many might have seen this game as a CoD killer, but sadly, its campaign is really not that special and basically amounts to a very average AAA FPS campaign, i.e. the kind of thing you play…