Top Deal: Everywhere you look these days, it’s mini ITX this and micro ATX that. In a world filling up with tiny PCs like the NUC and small form factor cases galore, is there anyone out there still building in full tower enclosures? You betcha! And if you’re one of them, have a look at…
Hello everyone! I’m Alexandre Pernot Lopes, co-founder at Trebuchet, a studio of seven awesome people based in Montréal, Canada. We are proud to announce the upcoming release of our first game Prison Boss VR to PlayStation VR tomorrow, updated with the brand new Boss Mode. For those who don’t know Prison Boss, it’s a game…
Interest-Ing. Hello hello, and welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl! Last time, we looked at Hey You, Pikachu! for the N64, and although neither version was particularly popular, it was the North American version that won the day with 61% of the vote. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Let me take you back to the year 2000, perhaps the peak of me naively thinking things were going to be great forever. Smash Mouth’s All Star was constantly on the radio. It sometimes still snowed in October here in Colorado and I’d get a few extra days off school. And I discovered a little…
The late George Carlin was one of the greatest actors and comedians of his era, with roles too numerous to list, and died at the age of 71 in 2008. Such was Carlin’s industry and volume of work that he remains a recognisable and beloved figure to this day, which may be why a podcast…
There’s an epidemic of ugliness in multiplayer shooters. Its cause goes by many names—the skin, bundle, drop, outfit, coating, or its most generic moniker, the cosmetic. Unassuming at its onset and quiet by nature, Cosmetic Uglification is a viral affliction infecting the best shooters of our time. When left unchecked, all semblance of aesthetic cohesion…
2023 isn’t over yet, and neither are the game industry layoffs that have been such an ugly hallmark of the year. Electronic Arts has confirmed with IGN that it has laid off an unspecified number of employees from Codemasters, the developer of the Grid, F1, and EA Sports WRC racing games. “Our business is constantly…
Spooky in the worst way possible. The Oliver Twins have been part of the British game development landscape for decades, and have given us classics such as Dizzy, Super Robin Hood, Professional Ski Simulator and, more recently, SkySaga: Infinite Isles. It would seem that the pair are looking to revisit one of their older classics,…
Have I ever mentioned that I, for one, welcome our new LLM overlords? No? Well, now I have and with that sentiment of self-serving surrender comes news from the researchers at MIT. They have a new way to measure how AI is going to impact the labour market, you see, and this “Iceberg Index” now…