Nintendo president and CEO Satoru Iwata died of cancer on Saturday. The company provided a specific reason on Monday (pdf), saying that his passing was the result of a bile duct growth. Satoru Iwata was 55 years old. Nintendo’s announcement did not provide any clues as to who will replace Iwata. However, Reuters reports that…
There’s a shadow hanging over the new Nvidia RTX 5070. It’s a shadow that’s dulling the glint off every one of the new RTX Blackwell card’s edges and, for once, it’s a shadow that’s only tangentially related to the brutal price gouging that has become the regular coda for this latest GPU generation. The shadow…
Hey everyone! Street Fighter V is here, and we wanted to make sure that everyone starts off on the right foot. With a bit of patience, practice and discipline you’ll be well on your way to becoming an online warrior! Here are a few tips to get folks started, from our friends Mike Ross and…
Even as a rejuvenated Battlefield series dominates the shooter limelight, sci-fi extraction shooter Arc Raiders is poised to be a hit. Public playtests have been popular enough to propel it to the third spot on Steam’s most-wishlisted games list, and a playtest back in April was so well-received that many hoped Arc’s developers would drop…
I was having a conversation a few days ago with a fan that loves my work in Five Nights at Freddy’s- kid is 18. We started talking games and I find out he’s never played Castlevania or Streets of Rage. I was shocked. So- this piece, which I know is written in a far different…
“That’s why I’m very anti-AI right now”. We’re currently going through a period in tech history where AI is getting put inside pretty much every facet of modern life. Gen-AI is everywhere you look online, while manufacturers are falling over themselves to include AI in every appliance you could mention – whether it makes sense…
A new video from Hardware Unboxed has just been released claiming that the Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti is effectively end of life from here on out. It cites conversations it’s had with retailers and AIBs about the cards post-CES where both basically say that the RTX 5070 Ti cards that are out on the shelves…
Full Metal Schoolgirl is an exhilarating action-shooting game in which machine girls, armed and mechanized from head to toe, storm a giant exploitative corporation and wreak havoc with non-stop shooting and slashing. Two cyborg high school girls rise up to destroy Meternal Jobz, an evil corporation that rules over Japan in a not-so-distant future. The…
Death Stranding 2: On The Beach recently released on PlayStation 5 (a PC version is inevitable but yet to be announced) and, wouldn’t you know it, Hideo Kojima has seized the chance to go on the interview circuit. As well as being a brilliant maker of games Kojima is also a master of promoting them,…
Expired security certificate caused Gmail to wig out Procrastinating kids trying to email the Easter Bunny on Saturday using their Gmail account may have run into some trouble getting their messages sent. That’s because a “majority” of Gmail users, or hundreds of millions, were affected by a problem that Google later identified as an expired…