This article was published in the December 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. A repository for more than you’d expect There are several places on the Internet that have become workhorses for free and open-source software projects. GitHub is definitely one of them, and the more I…
Quick, name the biggest videogame launch of all time. Minecraft? Black Ops? One of them there Mario Karts? Wrong answers, all. It’s obviously Grand Theft Auto 6. What do you mean it’s not out yet? What’s that got to do with anything? That’s what Rockstar thinks, anyway. The studio’s been spotted (by The GTA Base…
At its heart, Fujii is a game about exploring and gardening in equal parts. It revolves around a loop that lets players discover varied forms of plant life across three unique biomes, and then return to their home garden to plant various seeds they’ve discovered along the way. The experience takes players on a serene…
“Thanks so much for your patience”. Polymega maker Playmaji has published an update on the status of its products following complaints from people who have had pre-orders in place for months, if not years. According to the company, the EM01 Power Element Module Set, EM02 Super Element Module Set, EM03 Mega Element Module Set, EM04…
Developers at CD Projekt Red—the Polish studio responsible for a trilogy of videogames about a worker who believes in negotiating a fair price for his labor and one game set in a dystopian future where corporate exploitation is the rule—have formed a union. The Polish Gamedev Workers Union (PGWU) is part of the national union…
We’re working our way through playing with some of Razer’s recent gaming mice, and each one has its own unique characteristics. The Razer Diamondback is one of the lighter and smaller units in Razer’s offering. At A Glance (+) Menacing Rattler: Ambidextrous design good for lefties; 16,000dpi sensor, light and nimble. (-) Snakeskin Boots: Scroll…
Including “various graphical improvements”. Star Wars Bounty Hunter was certainly faithful but a few things also needed fixing here and there. Fortunately, Aspyr is still providing regular updates and today it’s released the second major patch for all platforms including the Switch. Switch users can expect multiple fixes. Some are tied to Jango getting stuck,…
SOMA, our new sci-fi horror game, will be released at the end of September. That’s pretty soon, so I think I’d like to talk a bit about our monsters up front. When creating SOMA we wanted to make our encounters disturbing. To do this our goal has been to trigger the player’s imagination in the…
English text, perfect performance. Victor Entertainment’s Keio Flying Squadron series arguably doesn’t get enough love in the modern era. The Sega CD original is a Parodius-style shmup with eye-catching visuals and great music, while the Saturn sequel mixes things up with platforming sections and some amazing graphics. Annoyingly, Keio Flying Squadron 2 was never released…
Respected UK news publication The Guardian has listed what it deems to be the twenty best handheld consoles of all-time. Interestingly they have voted the Nintendo Switch as the top handheld system ever made, beating the likes of the classic Game Boy and the legendary Nintendo DS. The Guardian says that the Nintendo Switch is…