These days, dead lunatics don’t stay dead for long. Take a bow John McAfee, one of the most wild personalities in computing, who was best-known for the antivirus software that bears his name but lived an absolutely wild life beholden to no-one. McAfee died in a Spanish prison cell in 2021 when he was due…
Hall effect and other analogue input technologies are taking the gaming world by, well, perhaps not by storm but at least by light drizzle. Now, it looks like this tech is coming not just to pre-built fighting sticks but to any fighting stick or arcade controller that can physically house this new button kit from…
“That initial dungeon, the very first one you start the game in, that was mine.”. If you’ve ever attempted to play The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, you’ll know that it doesn’t exactly get off to the easiest of starts. Dumped into the tutorial dungeon, it’s not uncommon for players to round the first set of…
“It’s entirely the leadership here, internally”. Pokémon GO has been in the headlines a fair amount recently after Niantic sold off its gaming division to Saudi-owned mobile specialist Scopely. But in some good news for fans of the AR game, the developers have announced that they’re doubling the number of daily remote raids players can…
Hey Xbox Insiders! We have a new Xbox Update Preview releasing to the Beta ring today. It’s important we note that some updates made to these preview OS builds include background improvements that ensure a quality and stable build for Xbox consoles. We will continue to post these release notes, even when the noticeable changes…
You know what it could mean, right? There’s still no sign of the open-world action RPG adventure Genshin Impact on the Switch, and although there are no official developments on this front, a new discovery has apparently reignited hopes that the popular title might one day get a Nintendo release. As highlighted by Universo Nintendo…
We finally found out the official release date for the long-awaited Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition during the Nintendo Direct Mini and it will be heading to the Nintendo Switch system on 29th May. The team at GameXplain have been hard at work putting together a graphical comparison video between the Wii original vs. the new…
Disk Cleanup (Image credit: Future) Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend feature delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” Ashly Burch’s first encounter with PC gaming…
Better battery and WiFi, too. Valve has just refreshed its Steam Deck, but instead of a power boost, we’re getting a Switch OLED-style upgrade which is mainly focused on delivering a better screen. The Steam Deck OLED will come in 512GB and 1TB variants, both of which will include a 7.4-inch, 1280 x 800 pixel…
Descenders Next is a sequel of sorts to Descenders, but it’s pretty different. It’s still about going down hills really fast, but it’s no longer about doing so on pushbikes: instead we have snowboards and mountainboards. I played a little bit last year and loved it, so I’m pretty happy to see it’s just shadowdropped…