Unique in a market that desperately needs it. For the past several years, there has been shockingly little innovation in the gaming handheld space. Most products adopt the same candy bar design, with a few outliers chasing nostalgic designs like the Game Boy Advance SP, Nintendo 3DS, or even PS Vita. But the Anbernic RG…
My first MMO character was… Ovidlords, Night-elf Druid Born: ~2006 Game: World of Warcraft After a friend bought me a video game bundle that included Diablo 2 and WoW, I jumped into Diablo and thought the Druid seemed like the coolest thing I’d ever seen. When I made the jump to paying a monthly sub…
It’s become something of a meme to think of social media as a digital skinner box, but is that enough to warrant action against it? The European Commission seems to think so, as it announced that ubiquitous short form video app TikTok is “in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design,” in…
Looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys! The mad lads at Aspyr have announced and shadow-dropped The Lord of the Rings: War in the North – Legacy Edition on Switch 1 & 2, reviving a 2011 curio for modern consoles. Boasting local co-op (not on Switch 1), 60fps gameplay (this too – sorry), a…
New homebrews for the Amiga and C64, so what’s next? Well it’s the ZX Spectrum’s turn for a new game to enjoy! As MicroChops has announced the release of their latest game called ‘SPECCY SAGA CODENAME : RKW’. A game that not only features a great soundtrack by Pedro Pimenta (128K) and Rich tufty Hollins (48k),…
Following a studio closure last week. A week after we heard about Ubisoft’s closure of its mobile game-focused studio Ubisoft Halifax, news has now surfaced about the third-party publisher laying off people at two other teams as part of ongoing cost-cutting measures. According to a report from IGN, Ubisoft “expects 55 jobs” to be impacted…
Pour one out for all the people who can’t stand playing Overwatch’s most popular maps, because the next season is going to make it even harder to play on anything else. Whenever a classic Overwatch map shows up as an option on the map voting screen, you know you’re probably stuck with it. Most players…
Move over Nvidia—France’s first Exascale Supercomputer will be powered by AMD hardware. Eyponomously named the Alice Recoque, after the French computer scientist who passed away in 2021, the supercomputer is a collaboration between AMD and Eviden. Europe’s second supercomputer to date, the Alice Recoque will be built with next-gen AMD EPYC CPUs, codenamed “Venice,” and…
I’m really not sure where to begin with this one, so I’m just going to lay it out and then try to explain later: A recent update to Zenless Zone Zero made it impossible to get a good look at character’s asses, and the blowback was so fierce developer MiHoYo reverted the change less than…
August of 2015 Activision announced the Call of Duty World League. Just shy of a year later, we are nearing the end of the inaugural year of a dedicated league for Call of Duty, a first for Activision. Since the beginning, PlayStation has been part of this journey with us. Beginning in January 2016, we…