I grew up in a golden age of FPS games. With the likes of Modern Warfare 2, F.E.A.R., Halo: Reach, and Black Ops 2 all releasing back when I had no responsibilities and all the time in the world; I didn’t know how good I had it. Looking back on it now, it’s clear to…
At their core, sims are hedonistic little squirrels constantly meeting their needs one moment at a time without any ability to think through a sequence of actions. That’s by design, one Sims 4 developer says, but he always wanted sims to have a more thoughtful approach to their own lives when left to their own…
Here’s an interesting rumor to start the week off. Flash back to March of 2023, that month saw an absolute avalanche of new pinball machine reveals. The Texas Pinball Festival featured the first public appearances of Chicago Gaming Company’s Pulp Fiction, Stern Pinball’s Foo Fighters, Jersey Jack Pinball’s The Godfather, American Pinball’s Galactic Tank Force…
Pauline unlocks. Nintendo has revealed amiibo functionality in the upcoming Donkey Kong Bananza, including an all-new Donkey Kong & Pauline figure that’s coming out alongside the game on 17th July. The DK Bananza Direct detailed various costumes you can put on DK and the freshly-revealed (but rumoured) Pauline which give each character various perks as…
RealSense is an Intel technology Acer is bringing Intel’s Kinect-esque RealSense 3D camera to its Aspire V Nitro series of gaming laptops, the company announced in a press release Saturday. Available in North America since October 2014, the Aspire V Nitro family currently contains as many as a dozen models, all of which either have…
To spare myself the psychic turmoil, I decided to accept years ago that Half-Life 3 will never happen. Best case scenario, I get to be delighted by being proven wrong. Worst case, I’m sparing myself from the cyclical mass psychosis of reading an imminent Half-Life 3 announcement in whatever tea leaves we’ve convinced ourselves exist….
I picked up crochet for the first time this year, after my friend bought me a neat little kit that contains everything you need in a can. In my excitement I sat down the same evening to attempt crafting a shrimp, and was met with a real challenge. As it turns out, crochet is hard….
I did not misspell ‘critical’ in that subheadline. The D&D streaming show Science & Sorcery has teamed up with the UK’s Vagina Museum to host a money-raising one shot—titled Clitical Hit—to help promote the museum’s mission statement of raising awareness regarding “gynaecological anatomy and health”. While Science & Sorcery does have long-running campaigns, it also…
AMD’s ‘Strix Halo’ (ie, Ryzen AI Max 300) chips have been a bit of a damp squib for gaming. Despite some initial and possibly naïve hopes that it could deliver fantastic integrated graphics for mainstream gaming laptops and handhelds, in reality it’s been out for a year and has delivered only a little. Instead, it’s…
There must be something in the water over in Eorzea—or a few backend bugs chewing their way through some Final Fantasy 14 code—because players have found themselves getting some unexpected power ups from totally random, persistent buffs. The issue, if you can call it that, began after Square Enix released the MMO’s latest update, adding…