Category: Announcements May 21, 2025 Xbox May Update: Retro Classics Come to Xbox Game Pass, PC Gaming Updates, and More Dean Shimabukuro, Product Marketing Manager, Xbox Services Marketing A variety of new updates are available this month across our gaming platforms. Coming today, Retro Classics games are available to play for Xbox Game Pass members….
A security engineer has “ported” one of the best known password recovery utilities to the GameBoy Advance. The port is based on Hashcat, a password recovery utility that otherwise pitches itself as the “world’s fastest.” But I’m doing the bunny ears around ‘ported’ because even the developer admits this is “not really” Hashcat in full….
The Last of Us Part 2 will release for PC on April 3, 2025, it was confirmed tonight at the 2024 The Game Awards. It’ll arrive in the form of the “remastered” version that hit PS5 at the beginning of the year, which polished up the original PS4 release. This sequel’s arrival on PC is…
After US export restrictions were lifted on Nvidia’s H20 AI processors, China’s Cyberspace Administration summoned the company to explain whether or not the chips had any backdoor access. Nvidia denied that this was true, and in a new blog, it not only reiterated this statement but explained why the whole concept of a secret backdoor…
This article was published in the April 2015 issue of Maximum PC. For more trusted reviews and feature stories, subscribe here. Adding dimensions to evolving (and shrinking) chip technology Three-dimensional flash memory is the latest chip technology that’s truly revolutionary and Samsung is leading the way with its 3D-NAND flash-memory cells in 500GB SSDs. Multiterabyte…
“They let us make a John Wick game.” That thought still hits me every couple of days. Lionsgate, Thunder Road Pictures and a bunch of film makers let me and my team re-imagine their fantastic film franchise as a game, and go some odd places with it. But more than just letting us, Lionsgate and…
An arcade shooter and a retro strategy/RPG hybrid join the library this week. Another week means yet more games added to the Antstream library. This time we have the classic arcade shooter Centipede (Atari 8-bit) and the just as classic strategy/RPG The Lords of Midnight (Spectrum) Previously a VCS exclusive, the Atari 8-bit version of…
Battlefield 6 has been a big hit so far, finally giving us some great food, the likes we’ve not seen for nearly a decade. This is just the beginning, though, as Battlefield 6 Season 1 builds on this solid foundation with new maps, modes, vehicles, guns, attachments, and cosmetic items. This is the start of…
Asus has announced its next handheld gaming PC, but it’s not quite the ROG Ally 2. The new handheld will be called the ROG Ally X, and it’ll be a revised version of the original ROG Ally. We don’t know everything about the new device just yet, but we do know this time it comes…
Figure it out. Like most first-party Nintendo games, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond contains some bonus material unlocked by tapping amiibo figures onto the Switch 2’s NFC spot. The new amiibo figures are Samus, Samus & Vi-O-La, and Sylux. Meanwhile, previous Metroid amiibo figures are also compatible, but other franchises – like Mario and Zelda –…