Blizzard recently introduced its 39th Hero to its multiplayer shooter Overwatch 2, in the form of Mauga, a tall, thick-set Samoan tank who, players have noted, looks rather like Pixar’s portrayal of the Polynesian demigod Maui in its animated film Moana. Well, it appears there’s more of a link between the two than just a…
Back in January, as part of its half-yearly report, Games Workshop said of Warhammer that “we own what we believe is some of the most underexploited intellectual property globally”. Corpo-speak aside, I think it’s true—there’s an odd aspect to the worlds of Warhammer that they’re very widely loved, but the main way of engaging with…
I’m Jesse Passoja from Korpi Games, lead designer on Virtual Hunter. Virtual reality is a lightning rod for all the things that make simulation games like ours click with the genre’s audience: Slower-paced, highly immersive experiences with a great range of freedom. However, the hunting genre was almost completely missing from VR when we started…
Apex Legends seems to be having trouble working with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT right now. As relayed by the Apex Legends account ApexCommunityJP on X (machine translated), “We have confirmed an issue causing crashes for players using the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU, and we are currently investigating the cause.” I can…
40 years of Alan Sugar’s baby. Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the Amstrad CPC home computer – and it almost slipped us by. Were it not for a tweet (spotted half a day after publication) by Revolution Software co-founder Tony Warriner, this momentous occasion might have gone unnoticed, at least by the Time Extension…
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Amazon didn’t spin up its game development studios a decade ago just to be a regular game publisher: It wanted to take on Steam, but missed its shot by such a wide margin that we didn’t even realize that’s what it was trying to do. Now it seems to have at least partially moved on…
For as long as I’ve been writing about PC hardware, I’ve hoped for a processor with an integrated GPU that was genuinely good for gaming. The AMD Ryzen AI Max 390 is that chip. It’s a mobile API that’s desktop-grade in a few ways, with a Radeon 8050S bringing 32 Compute Units (CUs) of graphical…
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features John Riggs who currently is displayed on card number 4098, from the Superstars of 2022 Collection. John Riggs has been playing video games for as long as he can remember. From his earliest gaming memory of playing Donkey Kong in the arcade to the time his dad brought home…
The Forge NPCs keep losing stuff, so it’s probably not much of a shock when the Roblox RPG sends you on a hunt to find the Bard’s lost guitar. Thankfully, this quest doesn’t have a long list of other side gigs tied to it (like when you’re asked to find Tomo’s lost cat), but the…