The big CPU and GPU announcements at CES like Nvidia’s new RTX Super GPUs and AMD’s new 7600 XT don’t tend to come as a huge surprise, what with the endless rumours and leaks. However, screen tech at the show does tend to throw up some genuine news and CES 2024 is no exception. Kicking…
What is it about the Modern Warfare games producing the most cursed-looking movement glitches, lately? There was the horrifying “G walk” in MW2, which looked like your character was breaking out an all fours to tear into someone’s jugular, and this ‘Superman‘ glitch from the same year that made you look like a Hunter from…
Smash Ultimate… Ultimate? The Super Smash Bros. franchise has come a long way since the original launched 25 years ago in 1999. Yes, you read that right — the original Super Smash Bros. is 25 years old tomorrow, 21st January. If we look at the character roster for a start, we began with a humble…
I’ve just learnt what Gaussian Splatting is, and I fear it may become my entire personality. At the risk of oversimplification, Gaussian Splatting is a rendering technique that gives you ‘photo-real’ graphics at a fraction of the resource cost required by a number of other mainstream game development options. That fact alone is enough to…
Meet Garotron OS. Publisher QuByte Interactive has released the launch trailer for its upcoming ‘horror life-sim’ Bem Feito, launching on the Switch this week on November 9th, 2023. The trailer evokes commercials from the ’80s and ’90s, featuring atmospheric clips, a soothing voiceover, and an appropriate CRT filter to make things look extra authentic. It’s…
From “a computer lab in Moscow” to being beaten by a teenager on the NES. A new book charting the 40-plus-year history of Tetris is set for release this August, from Irish video games journalist Anthony McGlynn (Variety, IGN, Ars Technica…) and Pen & Sword Books’ White Owl publishing imprint. The Tetris Story is McGlynn’s…
Is there anything more piratey than searching for buried treasure? I think not. Digging up the treasure map locations was one of my favourite side activities in the original game, and that’s not changed in Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced. If you completed everything in the original and thought you knew it like the back…
Surprise! Like a dual-wielding rogue pouncing from the shadows, Digital Eclipse has simultaneously revealed and launched a remake of the original Wizardry. To afford the game its full title, Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord was one of the first computer RPGs, and the first to feature party-based play. Released in 1981,Wizardry spawned a…
‘Cart Clinic’ system allows you to update the game. The ModRetro version of Tetris is getting a multiplayer mode which really should have been included in the game when it launched alongside the Chromatic handheld back in 2024. While the game shipped with link cable support for multiplayer, it was missing the all-important ‘Battle’ mode…
Hitman has a new celebrity Elusive Target and it’s none other than The Muscles From Brussels, Jean-Claude Van Damme. The ’90s action movie icon will portray Max Valliant, a legendary former ICA operative taken out by his own agency after he was found doing deals with the wrong people. Presumed dead for years, he’s back—and…