Konami's Arcade Classic 'Mystic Warriors' Finally Arrives On Consoles This Week

Esoteric Ebb’s creator reckons most players only saw half the game, and that’s fine by him: ‘You’ve got to miss stuff in order to feel like the world is bigger’

I’m fairly completionist with my RPGs: I only just beat New Vegas for the first time after 300 hours, 15 years, and I don’t know how many abortive playthroughs because I refuse to wrap one up until I’ve done everything⁠—and I often get tired or distracted before I can finish everything. I thought I did…

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Alas, it’s been estimated that WoW’s $90 FOMO dinosaur mount probably made Blizzard around $15-17 million, and at this point I think we all deserve to be here

Dear reader, I have a lot of positive words to say about World of Warcraft recently. The way Blizzard and its developers have clawed their way back from the pits of hell in Shadowlands is downright commendable, and the game is in one of the best states it’s been in in years. Not perfect, mind…

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Nvidia’s little gold box of pure AI power, the DGX Spark, is finally out and the comparison with AMD’s much cheaper Strix Halo chip is looking a little fugly

So, Nvidia’s little gold box of pure AI power, the DGX Spark is finally out. But is it any good? The answer depends who’s doing the asking and what they’re asking of the Spark. By some common measures, it’s no faster than another small box based on AMD’s Strix Halo chip that’s available for about…

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