Getting shown off today at GDC. AYANEO is about to lift the lid on its next Android gaming handheld, the Pocket S2. The successor to one of the best Android portables money can buy, the S2 will be powered by “the latest Qualcomm flagship gaming platform” and is due to be shown off during GDC…
I got the rare chance this week to sit down with Garry’s Mod creator and Facepunch Studios founder Garry Newman, whose next project, game creation platform s&box, is preparing for launch in April. Among other topics like his original expectations for G-Mod and what price s&box will (probably) launch at in April, I also asked…
Valve has released their annual Best of Steam 2023, a showcase of what was played most and made the most money broken down into roughly grouped tiers: Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze. In a year of absolutely great games, some of these chart-toppers aren’t surprises, but dang I’d never have guessed that Half-Life, the 1998…
AMD’s Ryzen CPUs currently dominate the market for gaming—seriously, all our current recommendations, whatever your budget, are AMD chips. And we’ve long suspected the company’s next generation of processors will arrive in 2026, but we’ve now had confirmation of this thanks to a CPU core roadmap that AMD has just released for its Financial Analyst…
Nintendo has announced that Jump Rope Challenge players have jumped 2,500,000 times. To mark the occasion, Nintendo says that “the free download will be available until further notice and will not be removed from Nintendo Switch eShop on September 30th”. Their official tweet about the matter is down below.
‘Mechanoids 2 – The Final Conflict’ was in development at Enigma Variations. Games That Weren’t’s founder Frank Gasking revealed earlier today that he has managed to preserve another lost Enigma Variations game, following the discovery of unreleased NES versions of Sensible Soccer and Populous. This time it’s the turn of the 1993 side-scrolling mech beat…
Online gambling? No thanks. Formed in 1932 to produce pinball and slot machines, Bally Manufacturing is arguably one of the most famous names in the arena of North American location-based entertainment. In the ’60s, the company would dominate the slot machine industry, accounting for an incredible 90 per cent of the worldwide market by the…
The game has been rated by Taiwan’s classification body. The Taiwanese video game classification body has rated Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace for PS4 and PS5, as reported by Gematsu (and picked up by VGC). This has inevitably led some online to speculate that it may be about to join the collection of…
During E3 2014, Razer introduced its first custom chassis as part of the company’s new “Designed by Razer” licensing program. The H440 was manufactured by NZXT and went on sale the following month for $149.99. Now the two companies are revealing another custom-designed PC case, the NZXT S340, at a lower price point. “’Designed by…
Plus, another mysterious controller is included. A new patent from Nintendo was recently made public which seems to confirm that, yes, the upcoming Switch 2 will indeed feature mouse support. Phew. However, upon digging into the patent a bit more, we discovered a couple of additional nuggets that might be of some interest. Namely, it…