I really didn’t like the Pimax Crystal Light the first time I put it on. This headset is clunky and bigger than many of the best VR headsets for gaming right now, and even things like plugging it into its own power outlet and connecting it to the DisplayPort of my PC felt restrictive and…
You’ve read my breakdown on the architecture behind Intel’s new Panther Lake processors. You’ve gone through every graphics benchmark that Andy has done with the range-topping Core Ultra X9 388H. Between the two of them, you’ve now decided that your next gaming laptop is going to be Panther Lake-powered and sport a big GPU from…
Never too late, eh? Johnny Gioeli, the Crush 40 musician and singer behind the iconic Sonic Adventure 2 track ‘Live and Learn‘, is suing SEGA of America over breach of contract for the song’s repeated use throughout the Sonic series (thanks, Polygon). According to Gioeli’s lawsuit (via Polygon), filed to the District Court of Southern…
Assassin’s Creed Shadows released 56 years ago: last March, and since then has kind of slipped out of the discourse as hype cycles for new games have been born, ripened, and died. But it keeps trundling on, getting patch after patch after content update after content update, and today marks the game’s 1.0.6 patch. Which…
If you’re bored of landing grab tricks and pulling off spine transfers, unlocking every Secret Skater in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 will be your next challenge. You don’t necessarily need to get all of these characters, but if you’re aiming for perfection, you’re bound to want to know how to get them…
History has done Saturn dirty. The Sega Saturn turns 30 today. It launched on November 22nd, 1994, in Japan, with the Western release following in 1995. Designed to build on the amazing global success of the 16-bit Genesis / Mega Drive, Saturn found itself thrust into a battle with newcomer Sony, which launched its PlayStation…
Resident Evil Requiem protagonist Grace Ashcroft is “an introverted and fearful character, which is unusual for this series,” said producer Masato Kumazawa (translated from Japanese) during a segment in the Future Games Show’s Gamescom showcase. To be fair to Grace, she’s being chased through a derelict hotel by an enormous monster, using a Zippo to…
There’s good news for Intel, as it has beaten expectations with its latest financial forecasts. Perhaps that’s why CEO Pat Gelisinger is so bullish about the threat from a new generation of Arm chips. During an earnings call with investors, Gelsinger dismissed the threat to Intel’s traditional x86 CPUs from a new generation of Arm…
AI doesn’t care about copyright. It can’t, obviously, because it’s AI, and not a human being with thoughts and feelings. But it particularly doesn’t care about copyright, partly because the US and UK governments are both pushing to let AI companies scrape data for use in generated text and imagery without a care thrown to…