Dark Souls is an interconnected game—if you datamine out a full model of Lordran, you’re able to look at the entire breadth of it like it’s a model train set, from the swamps of Blighttown to the hallowed halls of Anor Londo. Back when the game first came to PC, its port was pretty shocking—it…
Snakey. If you are considering picking up the physical edition of Konami’s Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1, you might want to bear in mind just how little is packed onto the cart without completing some rather meaty updates. We have known that the Master Collection Vol. 1 on Switch would require a good…
Now available to buy on Catalog! This week has seen a bunch of great new games hit Playdate’s Catalog, with the standout for us being GlagStone — a new retro-style city-builder that sees players become mayor of a mysterious island and take care of the needs of its occupants in the aftermath of a devastating…
Another Amiga heads up and no it’s not related to Dread or Electroman :p, as we’ve recently been told by a good friend of ours, that Jotd’s work in progress Amiga remake of the 1982 game ‘Bagman’, can be downloaded from the main website below as a beta test. This game is a GPL remake…
The whole Arm-versus-x86 thing just got a lot more interesting. Qualcomm has announced its much anticipated new Snapdragon X Elite SoC. Designed specifically for laptop PCs, it’s the first significant output of Qualcomm’s Apple-influenced Nuvia subsidiary, debuts a brand new CPU core architecture known as Oryon and comes with performance claims that are fairly eye…
The Duriel boss is Diablo 4‘s most significant endgame challenge—besides pushing into high-tier Nightmare Dungeons, that is. The King of Maggots is the toughest of the new bosses that Blizzard added to the game as part of the Season of Blood, and that’s not just in terms of fighting him. While his summoning material farm…
“Creepy castles, unkind estates, and cursed digital architecture”. Fangamer and Lost in Cult have teamed up to create THE HORROR, a series of books which will examine “the foundational hits, cult classics, indie nightmares and obscure curiosities of gaming.” The first volume in the series is entitled MANSION, and is all about “creepy castles, unkind…
When Jacob reviewed the Intel Core i9 14900K last week he wasn’t particularly impressed with the lack of improvements over the previous generation, and one thing that seems to have remained the same is the tendency to run on the warmer side under heavy load. Of course if you’re in the market for Intel’s latest…
Excel is one of the programs that gets used in a multitude of sectors, from banking and finance, to engineering and medicine. In the case of the latter, geneticists routinely struggled with the program’s habit of converting text into a date, causing gene naming errors to crop up in research papers. Well, it’s taken years…
The Metal Gear Solid Master Collection is here, and that can only mean two things. One, that this series probably deserves stewardship from a company willing to spend any money at all on creating decent, modern PC ports for it, and two, that it’s time to pore over its various data files with a fine-tooth…