Long ago, the pioneers of digital shooting pitted two teams against each other in a contest to earn the most frags. Thus, the perfect game mode was born. When an FPS features team deathmatch at or near the top of its playlists, that’s the crucial clue that you’re playing a good videogame. The mode’s popularity…
“Younger people who want to make games should play really old games”. One of the formative figures of video games is Tomohiro Nishikado. Known for creating the arcade game smash hit Space Invaders, I caught up with him about his long and storied career. “I was born in Osaka, in a place called Kishiwada, and…
In addition to massive multiplayer warfare, Battlefield V lets you experience World War 2 through the eyes of men and women who helped change the world forever. War Stories are an anthology of single-player tales that will take you on a global journey – from the frozen mountains of Norway to the searing deserts of…
Update on the Switch 2 today. Nintendo has been rolling out game updates every week since the Switch 2 arrived earlier this month, and we’ve now got a new patch for Mario Kart World. This follows a small patch last week and bumps the game up to Version 1.1.2. It comes with some general adjustments…
“Jay Smith is now a consultant for Vectrex and future Vectrex-related projects”. The team behind the forthcoming Vectrex Mini has revealed that Jay Smith, who created the original back in 1982, is now on board as a consultant. “My goal was to secure the rights for the launch-era Vectrex games originally developed under Smith Engineering…
Seems like only a few weeks back we were grumbling about the price of Nvidia RTX 5070 graphics cards—because we were. Well, some enterprising Redditors have discovered a neat little loophole that’s bound to be closed one day, allowing them to pick up a like new RTX 50-series card at a cut price. It all…
[Insert GameCube boot up sound here]. The Switch 2 isn’t just getting brand new games, but its online service will also be receiving a special update adding the GameCube library. While it’s set to start with only a handful of games, Nintendo has already teased some others. Still, we’re sure there are many other requests…
Today, October 23, is Fallout Day, also known as Bombs Drop Day. For those not hip to the lingo, October 23, 2077, is the day of the world-ending Great War in the Fallout mythos: A full-scale thermonuclear war between the US and China that annihilated nations, killed billions, and threw the global climate into a…
Hi everyone, Marcus from SideQuest Studios here. I’m happy to be back and share some news about our upcoming RPG Rainbow Skies. After listening to a lot of fan feedback, we are happy to announce that we are now also developing Rainbow Skies for PS4. We plan to release Rainbow Skies with cross save support…
The MSI Forge GK600 is a tenkeyless (TKL) gaming keyboard, meaning it’s missing the numberpad. But Katie, I hear you say, if a normal keyboard has all the keys you could ever want, what’s the point getting rid of them in favour of a TKL board? Well, friend, it’s all about real estate and maneuverability….