Oh no, I can feel it happening. I’m regressing to my 2016 self, PlayStation Vita in one hand and a teeny-tiny Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair cartridge in the other. What began as little more than a time-kill opportunity—I had purchased the Sony handheld and a copy of the first Danganronpa in a desperate attempt to…
Longtime Microsoft insider Raymond Chen has returned with another cracking anecdote from the days of Windows 95. His latest blog post concerns the fun freebies packaged alongside the OS to showcase Windows 95’s multimedia capabilities—turns out, Weezer’s Buddy Holly music video presented a tricky rights situation before it was cleared for inclusion. For those not…
MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) This week: Got to the part in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker with the triforce charts that everybody says is bad and agrees it’s bad. This time 15 years ago, I was a staunch Battlefield guy who had every Call of Duty rebuke memorized. My beloved…
The veil between satire and reality has seemed so thin for such a long time now that I find myself double checking every other news post I see just to make sure it’s not something from The Onion—sadly it never is. But I guess it could be worse, I could be the one who has…
Jervis Johnson is a legend in the world of tabletop game design. During almost four decades spent at Games Workshop he created Blood Bowl and wrote the core rules for Advanced Heroquest, co-created Necromunda, and wrote significant chunks of Warhammer 40,000’s second edition, Warhammer Fantasy Battle’s fourth edition, multiple iterations of Age of Sigmar, and…
For this week’s instalment of ‘did you know you can play a game on that’, I present to you the humble oscilloscope. The voltage graphing instrument used to chart electrical signals over time may sound like the worst way to spend a Friday night but 1) it’s pretty neat, actually, you could learn something, and…
Download it now from SegaXtreme. A Japanese-exclusive Mobile Suit Gundam game that was originally released all the way back in 1995 has just got a new fan translation after a year and a half of work, as reported by Sega Saturn, Shiro!. Initially developed by CRI and published by Bandai, Mobile Suit Gundam for the…
Deadlock, the MOBA shooter that Valve would still like us to pretend hasn’t launched even as it receives major additions whose patch notes span pages of tastefully produced graphical treatments, has been drawing attention with its Old Gods, New Blood update. As of last week, Deadlock’s boasting an updated map, a new mode, all sorts…
Don’t call it Chromebook 3 Toshiba is adding new hardware to its Chromebook 2 laptop, though not so much that it would warrant calling it Chromebook 3. More specifically, the Chromebook 2 is getting 5th Generation Intel Core i3 and Celeron processor options, otherwise known as Broadwell, and an all-new LED backlit keyboard. The Chromebook…
The DualShock 4 Wireless Controller family has grown so much since its launch almost six years ago, as we’ve introduced more than 25 colors, ranging from classic Jet Black and Wave Blue to the eclectic Sunset Orange and Red Crystal. Today, we’re excited to reveal four new stylish colors being added to our growing lineup…