No wires, no problems. Accessory manufacturer HORI has lifted the lid on its latest licensed Switch 2 controller, the Wireless HORIPAD Turbo. It’s a colourful affair, with an overall design that looks uncannily close to Nintendo’s official offering, but there are a couple of caveats that stop it from quite toppling the mighty Pro Controller….
You’ve got to envy folks in the middle ages. I mean, not the plague. Not the religious zealotry, either. And certainly not the subsistence farming. But give them some credit: they lived in a world of magic. You couldn’t leave the milk out without some hobgoblin stalking in to curdle it. Every weird happenstance or…
Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition came with its own starter set way back in 2014. In it, players could go through the start of the Lost Mines of Phandelver adventure—which began with a harsh goblin ambush that could cause character deaths, and even wipe out the party. Phandelver was free for a while, making it…
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…
Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…
Taking money from the cloud The world is rapidly changing, no doubt about it. Gone are most video rental stores, like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video, replaced in large part by streaming options like Netflix and Hulu. There’s a lot you can do in the cloud these days, and if you live in Chicago, get ready…
Volume is ready for PS4, and here’s your first look at the game’s launch trailer. Many of you may recognize the actor in the live-action sequences as Charlie McDonnell from YouTube (Charlieiscoollike). He also does a fantastic job voicing Rob Locksley in the game. Charlie is joined in Volume by Danny Wallace, who won a…
Closing the gap It’s not unusual for grade school teachers to assign their students homework that requires Internet access. The problem is that more than half of all households making under $25,000 don’t have broadband Internet service, versus a 95 percent broadband penetration rate among households with incomes over $150,000 per year. To help close…
No more screen flickering. Nintendo released a bunch of free Switch updates alongside the launch of the Switch 2 earlier this month but one issue that wasn’t entirely resolved was tied to Pikmin 3 Deluxe. At the time, Nintendo was only able to “partially” alleviate an issue which occured when playing the game on the…
I’m all full up, thanks. If you’re old enough to read this, you’re likely old enough to remember that, at its launch, the Switch provided us all with a few giggles as we learned that its cartridges, tiny as they are, had been coated in a yummy-tasting sauce that keeps silly animals and the like…