Given away when Color TV Game Block Kuzushi launched. Before Nintendo took the world by a storm with the Famicom / NES, it produced a range of ‘Color TV Game’ systems in Japan, starting with the Color TV-Game 6 and Color TV-Game 15 in 1977. 1979’s Color TV Game Block Kuzushi cost ¥13,500 and featured…
Burning Bridges Microsoft wanted to make it easy for mobile app developers to port their software over to Windows 10 without having to rewrite their code, so it created a series of so-called bridges. They’re essentially toolkits designed to do the dirty work for developers. There was one for porting Android apps to Windows 10…
Two Point Studios and SEGA have announced that Two Point Hospital: JUMBO Edition will finally be arriving on the Nintendo Switch system. Two Point Hospital: JUMBO Edition is set to arrive on 5th March for $39.99 and includes four downloadable content packs, two item packs, plus a new free update. Two Point Hospital: JUMBO Edition…
Category: ID@Xbox September 9, 2025 ID@Xbox Indie Selects Demo Fest Starts Today – Check Out All the Games Included Jessica RonnellSr. Developer Engagement Manager, Xbox We’re thrilled to announce that our Indie Selects Demo Fest has begun, featuring more than 40 exciting game demos available on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One. Like our last…
Pushing the pedal to the metal The nice thing about factory overclocked graphics cards is that the manufacturer assumes all the risk, at least until the warranty period is over. That doesn’t seem to be a deterrent for Gigabyte, which just added five new overclocked cards to its Xtreme Gaming series. In addition to the…
Top Deal: Building a PC is all about matching the appropriate parts. For example, you wouldn’t (or shouldn’t) pair a Titan X with a lowly dual-core APU, and while bother with a 1,000W power supply if you’re running a lower-end system that could thrive comfortably on a solid 400W PSU? That same philosophy extends beyond…
For a long time, setting up any fresh Windows device would incur the time sink of installing all of the latest updates. Windows 11 has garnered a number of these over the last few years, so there’s no choice but to go find something else to do for about 30 minutes (or more, depending on…
Released in 2013, and directed by the singular Josef Fares, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons was a truly unique game. After their father falls ill, the game follows two, well, brothers as they set out into a strange and often dangerous world – with the twist being that a single player controls both characters…
The 1980s were a Golden Age for cartoonish super villains. Consider the brutish evil of Dolph Lundgren as Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, the greed of Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. Yet both pale in comparison to Bill Laimbeer as portrayed by himself on the Detroit Pistons. Consider: Bill Laimbeer was on…
Late in September, EA committed to two months of maintenance for The Sims 4, as its community reported a growing number of bugs afflicting the 12-year-old life sim. The publisher wants the ageing sequel to continue as the primary platform for virtual soap operas for the foreseeable future, rather than replace it and its many…