‘Dark Empires’ was a dragon-based RTS for the Sega Mega Drive. The video game preservation website Hidden Palace has just released a prototype of Sega Technical Institute’s dragon-based real-time strategy game Dark Empires, in collaboration with the Sega Retro researcher Alexander Rojas. Dark Empires began life at Sega Technical Institute in 1990, shortly after the…
Data security in this day and age was already a joke. Besides one accurately guessed password putting a 158-year old company out of business, hackers keep finding zero-day flaws in Chrome like it’s going out of fashion. Speaking of, the latest data security punchline involves a zero-day flaw in Lovense, an app designed to remotely…
New video game data released for Japan has shown that the Nintendo Switch family of systems have now outsold Sony’s legacy system, the PlayStation 3 in Japan. The Nintendo Switch has now sold 10,432,570 units in Japan, and as of 2016, the PlayStation 3 had sold 10,248,867 units. The next target for the Nintendo Switch…
“I’m here to help you out with that!” So, says the WORMGPT chatbot in the breezy, impossibly upbeat tone that’s become characteristic of current AI models. Except, that’s in response to a request to generate ransomware. It all sounds a bit like a dystopian respin of the cheerful, sentient doors in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to…
With prebuilt machines, or any machine really, you have to make some compromises. This could be going for a slightly more value-friendly GPU to fit your budget, or skipping out on that all-white build because you don’t want to pay so much for colour-appropriate components. The Ryzen 5 7600X3D chip in the OcUK Mach 5R…
In case you’ve never played Prey, Fallout 3, or its ‘cooler Daniel’ Fallout: New Vegas—I’ve got great news. You can get all three of them for less than I, PC Gamer writer Harvey Randall, will be spending on lunch shortly after I write this. I don’t have a lot in my fridge at the moment,…
Samusings. Reviews for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond are live, including ours, although you may have noticed that it’s focused on the Switch 2 Edition, and MP4 is also launching on Switch 1. If you’re looking for impressions on the original Switch version, they are coming – please bear with us. We weren’t able to test…
Why do all spaceships have to be horizontal? Nevermind the practicality or anything like that, I want to explore space in something a little more vertical. A silo, a tower, perhaps. Or maybe even a ship that is just one very, very long ladder a la Snake. As spotted by GamesRadar, one particularly determined Starfield…
King’s Field inspired Hidetaka Miyazaki to create his ‘Souls’ series. Today marks the 30th birthday of King’s Field, a PlayStation title with an incredible legacy – and one which some Western players might be unaware of. In fact, most non-Japanese players might be more familiar with a single screenshot from the game which has, in…
Fixes aplenty. Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound has received another update following a recent patch to improve the game’s frame rate when played on Switch 2. This one is more focused on general bug fixes and gameplay improvements, but it’s a welcome update nonetheless. Highlights include fixes to soft-locks and freezing scenarios, collision issues, improved visual consistency,…