The humble mouse has been through some changes in its time. When it’s not adding extra buttons all over the place it’s twisting your wrist into unlikely positions or looking like whatever the Mad Catz RAT was. A general theme over the years, however, is that they’re getting bigger, and perhaps there’s a study to…
At the start of May, president Donald Trump thanked Michael and Susan Dell (yes, those Dells) for donating over $6 billion to ‘Trump Accounts,’ reportedly going toward at least 25 million children in America. In that thank-you speech, he urged listeners to “go out and buy a Dell.” That was after Trump filed that he…
Super Mario Sunset arrives this month! A new mod is about to be released for Super Mario Sunshine, giving the game a relaxing sunset-themed visual makeover, alongside introducing new music, sound effects, and refreshed secrets. Super Mario Sunset is a mod for the 2001 platformer, developed by the modding team Super Mario Elements, who previously…
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a game of many excellent parts, and some of its most excellent are lead characters Henry of Skalitz and Lord Hans Capon. That’s in no small part down to the fact that both of them have great voice actors: Tom McKay for Henry and Luke Dale for Capon, who both…
The Xbox reset is afoot, and while there aren’t strictly speaking any studio closures yet, with multiple developers in the process of moving elsewhere, the shockwaves from its impact are still being felt across Xbox’s continually-shrinking staff. All in the service of a mathematically improbable 1 billion daily player count, or something. It’s hard to…
You can’t have too many screens. That’s pretty much been the guiding moral in my life. Enter the new Asus ROG Strix XG129C and a minor existential crisis. This is a screen, but I have to ask—I can’t believe I’m saying this—is there any real point to it? For starters, this “gaming monitor” (Asus’ words,…
If you’ve found yourself with much less storage than you otherwise anticipated, to the tune of hundreds of missing gigabytes, there’s a chance you’ve fallen victim to a new Windows 11 bug. That, or you’re not very good at managing your storage (same). As spotted by Windows Latest, this new bug involves the CapabilityAccessManager. This…
Slop detected. Sega has come under fire recently for its use of GenAI in Crazy Taxi: World Tour (something it later walked back on) and for a promotional item related to that game – but it seems the company isn’t quite done with the controversial technology. As spotted by GamesRadar’s Phil Hayton on BlueSky, Sega…
Game originally hit store shelves in 1994. Boutique publisher 33 Games has revealed to Time Extension that it is working on a “super premium” re-release of Stone Protectors on Sega Mega Drive / Genesis and SNES. A side-scrolling fighter developed by Eurocom, Stone Protectors is based on the short-lived toy line and cartoon series of…
The decision to close came due to a “lack of necessary public support”. Germany’s largest video game archive, the Internationale Computerspielesammlung (ICS), is set to close, just months after its funding from the Berlin Senate and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media expired in April (as reported by gameswirtschaft, thanks, notebookcheck for…