An AMD spokesperson has claimed that Radeon gaming graphics cards now have 45% market share in Japan. This appears to be something of a surprise to the AMD rep, referred to as Mr. Sato, who said that the company, “isn’t used to selling graphics cards”. Er, righto…! According to Japanese website ASCII (via Google translate),…
Category: Games 6 Things Starting Adventurers Need to Relearn to Explore the Crimson Desert Jeff Rubenstein Published March 19, 2026 There’s a reason Crimson Desert has been generating so much attention – it presents an improbably huge, mind-bogglingly complex world, all while running like a dream. Crimson Desert players will find a number of familiar…
In 2024, we witnessed the rise of the retail sim: games like Supermarket Simulator, Supermarket Together, and TCG Card Shop Simulator that lured players, streamers, and YouTubers with the unparalleled power fantasy of putting stuff on shelves. While the genre’s overnight emergence was surprising, its success makes sense. There’s joy to be found in mundane…
Remember back in the good old days, when MMO dungeons used to be big, sprawling mazes you could spend hours just getting lost in? Now most of them follow a similar formula: Narrow-ish corridors with three to five bosses. Sure, the set dressing varies, but the mechanical template is always bite-sized. World of Warcraft is…
Vampire Survivors‘ long-anticipated online mode is finally here, sort of. Developer Poncle announced at the end of this week that online multiplayer has been implemented in the game’s beta branch. Vampire Survivors has of course had multiplayer functionality for several years. But playing with pals was previously limited to local co-op. Getting Vampire Survivors to…
An upcoming city builder asks the hard, important questions we all like to ask sometimes: What if penguins built a city? Wouldn’t that be cool? United Penguin Kingdom says that yes, in fact, that would be pretty cool. You can try it for free, today, via a demo version on Steam called United Penguin Kingdom:…
Fraser Brown, Online Editor (Image credit: Future) This week, I mostly ignored my PC in lieu of being on holiday, and now I am filled with rage. I’m not really a PvP boy. It’s not that I’m friendly, but I am absolutely cowardly. Gimme some AI to stomp, rather than a sweaty gamer who might—god…
Normally I feel about brand crossovers the same way I feel about poutine. Gravy and chips are both wonderful things when eaten separately, but combine them and you end up with a soggy mush that loses all sense of texture. But I’m willing to give Dave the Diver’s latest Like a Dragon DLC crossover a…
Dear reader—and potentially, dear horse enthusiast—I want to clarify something. While I do like animals, I am nowhere near a ‘horse person’. The only experience I’ve had with one of humanity’s oldest animal friends is a very terrified stint on a farm in the rural south of England when I was very little. Which is…
Sorry, could you repeat that? The 1990s were famous for their edgy commercials, with Sega blazing a trailer at the start of the decade before its rivals got in on the action, too. Even the once squeaky-clean Nintendo itself wasn’t immune, as the following print advertisement for Pokémon Red & Blue proves. Read the full…