When it was announced that Baldur’s Gate 3 would have turn-based combat unlike its predecessors, I reacted like the little girl with the frog from The Cabin in the Woods: “The evil has been defeated!” Our long national nightmare was over. And by “nightmare” I mean games expecting us to control an entire party of…
“They loaned us a Dreamcast hardware development system”. Bleem! was a really unique product for its time, allowing users to run PlayStation games on non-PlayStation hardware. Originally created with Windows-based PCs in mind, Bleem! would later come to the Sega Dreamcast as Bleemcast – a move which Sega was covertly in favour of. Randy Linden,…
#Pinball #Arcade #Gaming #HiddenGem #MindBlown Wait, you can MOVE that?! 🤯 Discovering a wild new mechanic on the Shadow pinball machine! Have you ever seen this before? Let us know in the comments!
The Trump administration today unveiled its AI action plan, in accordance with the President’s prior executive order to “remove barriers to American leadership in artificial intelligence.” The key policies include: Exporting American AI: The Commerce and State Departments will partner with industry to deliver secure, full-stack AI export packages – including hardware, models, software, applications, and…
For the last year and a bit, I’ve sat down every Friday morning to update our guide to the best SSD deals for gaming. Today, I sat down for the first time in 2026, only to see that the memory supply crisis is well and truly having a knock-on effect on SSD pricing. Our Jeremy…
A hollow promise? Back in December, we learned that the original Hollow Knight would be getting a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition of its own at some point in 2026. In true Team Cherry style, things have been radio silent ever since, but a newly-emerged PEGI rating may suggest that we’re closer to release than we…
Your guide to the GameCube’s greatest. 14th September 2026 marks 25 years(!) since the Japanese launch of the GameCube. In honour of a quarter-century of cubular gaming on mini-DVDs, we’re republishing this ranking of the console’s 50 finest games. Enjoy! The GameCube console concentrated on doing just one thing well: playing games. This was also…
You overestimate my power. Here’s a statement that gets worse the longer you read it: Fortnite‘s new Star Wars season has gained a Darth Vader NPC that can talk to you in the voice of the late, great James Earl Jones via a generative AI chatbot. Forget Imperial Admiral Motti’s lack of faith, we find…
Category: Games April 17, 2025 Building a Soulslike: Why Lords of the Fallen Version 2.0 is Worth Your Time Ryan Hill, Marketing Director, CI Games Much like playing one, crafting a Soulslike is a brutal dance of precision and punishment. CI Games knows this all too well after a decade of swinging for the fences…
Remember when 144 Hz seemed pretty slick? I mean, it wasn’t that long ago, was it? Well, get a load of this 600 Hz beast from MSI. The MSI MPG 242R X60N will be showcased at CES next week according to TFT Central, and its appeal will be all about that wild 600 Hz refresh….