We’re celebrating Outbreak Day for The Last of Us this year a little early. In the past, we’ve marked the occasion with a video and a contest but today we are happy to finally reveal there’s a new Clicker Statue from our friends at IP Factory/Gaming Heads now available for pre-order. You can get your…
‘Releasing a compromised or half-finished version would be worse than not releasing it at all’. It’s been a while since we last heard any news about Black Finger Jet, the Metal Slug-like run ‘n’ gun being created by a group of Irem and SNK veterans. With Kohachi Studios, the company behind it, now focusing on…
Battlefield Studios has followed through on its plan to discourage XP farming servers in Battlefield 6. As of this morning, many servers advertising themselves as “XP farms” or “all bots” have had their XP privileges taken away—you can still play on them, but you’ll only earn a pittance of precious experience. Some noticed the XP…
Games and tech products can leak in all manner of strange ways. But the curious case of the Pixel Watch 5 is by far the weirdest I’ve heard about. The accidental unveiling of what appears to be Google’s next smartwatch involves scuba diving, Caribbean idylls, and Gearbox CEO/walking headline generator Randy Pitchford. For once, Pitchford…
Next-gen Mario Kart arrives this June. Nintendo gave us our first proper look at Mario Kart World during the Switch 2 Direct earlier this week, and at a glance, it looks pretty-much what you might expect visually from a Mario Kart game. Just how much has it actually changed though? Well, we’ve now had the…
Myst was a massive success: Not only was it the best-selling PC videogame of all time for years, it helped usher in the CD-ROM era, opening the door to expansive new technologies and previously unseen levels of fidelity in gaming. In 1993, Myst was nothing short of a revelation. The fortunes of Myst, and developer…
Warlock, Hasbro and Invoke’s open world action romp, looks like a good time—at least if your idea of fun is using magic to steal an ogre’s sword before tossing it at another horrible creature, or using fancy blood rituals to ruin a sunny day, bringing rain and gloom. “Creative use of magic,” Invoke calls it….
A recent update to Twitch’s enforcement system saw the process of punishing violations change. Instead of maintaining strikes against your account indefinitely, they will now disappear after various lengths of time to “reduce the risk that streamers lose their communities and livelihoods for low severity violations.” Despite only 4% of active streamers receiving any sort…
The latest UK video games charts have finally arrived thanks to GfK. There’s a new No.1 this week which is the latest formula one game F1 2020. Games Industry also reports that Mario Kart 8: Deluxe is back at No.4 and has seen a 50% spike in boxed sales week-on-week. Story of Seasons: Friends of…
Cooling fans in servers don’t have an easy life. They’re jammed into a tiny space and typically run full-pelt all day long. Should one fail, it’s not a quick task to replace them either, so anything that can be done to keep them running longer is a must. Cooling experts Arctic reckons it has the…