Our hint for today’s Wordle is a versatile thing. Use it early on as a springboard for your own ideas, ensuring your opening guess is as good as they get. Or save it for later, when you’re feeling a bit low on spare rows and green letters. Either way, it’ll help you win—and the April…
There are builds that expand. There are builds that compress. And then there are builds that refine. CoinOptimus Arcade lands as a focused special edit of the infamous CoinOps Legends for PC, trimming the fat while strengthening the core. This is not a bloated archive stuffed with filler. This is a curated arcade experience that…
Let there be light Waterblocks aren’t overly interesting, not outside of their function, anyway. But with so many parts of a build getting blinged out by manufacturers, it was only a matter of time before a company gave the same treatment to a waterblock. That company is Zotac. Inside Zotac’s booth at CES, we had…
New hardware, new color scheme Asus Republic of Gamers (ROG) dialed up the hype machine to 11 to announce its new flagship Maximus VIII Extreme/Assembly motherboard and Matrix GTX 980 Ti graphics card. Part of the source of the hype is a “Plasma Copper” color scheme that’s new to the ROG line. “To be ROG…
It’s hard to imagine Borderlands without all the stylized ink lines and butt stallions, but when the game was first teased nearly two decades ago, it looked much greyer and more brooding—the sort of thing you’d expect from a shooter released in the late aughts. CEO of publisher Take-Two, Strauss Zelnick, said in a recent…
Featuring Hi-Score SRAM & difficulty tweaks. SNK’s Mega Drive / Genesis port of Art of Fighting is a lot harder than your typical fighting game, thanks to its punishing AI and challenging single-player campaign. But a new ROM hack has recently set out to change just that, improving the number of options available so that…
What was the standard once is the past now. Evolution brings change in any field, and game development is not exempt. The fast pace of our world dictates that game developments follow. Since there are enormous teams spread out across the world making multi-million dollar projects, it’s safe to say that gaming development today resembles…
My first move with the Corsair Frame 4000D was to pull it apart, panel by panel, until I was left with nothing more than a basic frame. All of a sudden the name makes sense—you can remove and replace pieces of the Frame 4000D to match your mood and, with most removed, it offers unfettered…
Category: Announcements December 3, 2024 Xbox Recognizes International Day of Persons with Disabilities Kaitlyn JonesSenior Accessibility Product Manager, Xbox Gaming Accessibility Team International Day of Persons with Disabilities is observed each December to promote awareness, understanding and equal participation of people with disabilities in all aspects of society and development. At Xbox, we view play…
With its latest update for Windows 11, codenamed KB5089573, Microsoft has finally started to fully roll out something that it began late last year, and something that phones have supported for even longer. It’s a Bluetooth feature called Shared Audio, and as long as everyone’s hardware ticks off the right boxes, you’ll be able to…