Long before home consoles dominated living rooms, arcades were the proving ground for gaming’s most daring ideas. Cabinets built between the late 1970s and the mid-1990s often pushed hardware limits that home systems simply couldn’t match. Many of these machines never made the leap to consoles, yet their design fingerprints are still visible in modern…
Take a peek at our hint for today’s Wordle, and then combine it with our general tips to help get your daily puzzle gaming off to a flying start. Or put it to one side for later if you prefer, keeping it as a safety net for a mid-board mess of yellow letters. And if…
The best GameCube and Nintendo Wii emulator just got better. The group of developers behind Dolphin, the popular Nintendo GameCube and Nintendo Wii emulator, has posted its latest blog post, documenting some of the major changes it has made over the last couple of months, since its previous progress report. Among the headline features, which…
This is it, hunters: it’s been a long, long wait for Monster Hunter Wilds, with five years somehow passing since we played the great World expansion Iceborne on PC. Sure we had a little hunting detour with 2022’s Monster Hunter Rise, but Monster Hunter: World’s successor is here at long last, and it’s pretty great….
There’s nothing quite like setting up a custom, intricate hell maze in a level editor, sending it to friends, and watching as they trounce it with minimal effort. Turnbound, which debuted at today’s PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct, is boxing up that unique brand of shame and delivering it to your door in the form…
Silent Hill f finally releases to the masses tomorrow, but before everyone’s even got their hands on NeoBard’s new take on the Silent Hill series, one modder has managed to completely remove all the fog from the game. Simply named No Fog, this mod, created by Fellow_Demo, strips all the fog from Ebisugaoka, but players…
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is available now on the Nintendo Switch via the eShop and your favourite retailer. A day one patch has been released today bringing the action-packed game to Version 1.0.1. The new update features a number of bug fixes and also adds Spanish audio. You can read the full list of…
Far be it for me to bore you with physics, but the Hall effect—the production of a potential difference across an electrical conductor that is transverse to an electric current in the conductor and to an applied magnetic field perpendicular to the current, as you well know—is brilliant. At least, it is when it’s applied…
Pretty much every video game loving child of the eighties dreamed of being able to play every single Famicom game. Well, RndStranger (real name David Mathis) of YouTube actually went and did it, completing an exhaustive 1,041 episode series about every single Famicom title on YouTube. There are 1042 official Famicom cartridge releases despite…
Summer fun. Mario Kart World is running a Summer Vacation Skill Test event in-game later this month. Announced on social media by Nintendo — and translated by OatmealDome — you’ll be able to participate in 150cc races with others to try and become one of the top 100 players in the world. Read the full…