About This Episode If you always know where your towel is, then you’re likely already a fan of the topic of this episode. His Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series was required GenX reading, and his work is beloved by millions. In this Backtrack, we remember and celebrate English author, humorist, and screenwriter Douglas Adams!…
Fatality. Since its release last week, the internet has been ablaze with comparisons between Mortal Kombat 1 on the Switch and next-gen consoles. Things look rough, and now the good folk at Digital Foundry have released their technical analysis to tell us just how rough. Spoiler: it’s bad. So, let’s take a look at this…
Our hints for today’s Wordle are all neatly written up and nicely separated out, making it easy for you to fine-tune how much help you want to receive, as well as what kind of help you’d like in the first place too. Use them together, with the August 26 (1529) Wordle clue on top if…
Six years after its debut, Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition, the Beamdog-buffed update of BioWare’s famed 2002 D&D RPG, has got a big new patch featuring improvements to the UI, better HDR-bloom post-processing effects, more than 100 bugfixes, and “significant performance improvements across the board.” The patch was first announced in early December 2023 but only…
Baba is You is about as cool as puzzle games get, and PC Gamer contributor Philippa Warr agreed, scoring the game an exceptional 90% back when it released. But like most puzzle games, I binged it once with no plans to return until my withering hippocampus had fully lost all the puzzle solutions. To my…
Celebrate World Maritime Day with BBG Entertainment’s reimagined take on the 16-bit classic, o-fish-ally available on Steam PC, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and Apple Mac! Dive in, underwater adventurers! BBG Entertainment is thrilled to announce the release of SHARK! SHARK!®, the modern reimagining of a beloved 16-bit classic. Perfectly timed for World Maritime Day, the game is…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was among various tech executives that testified to the US Congress this week about the burgeoning AI sector’s risks and potential regulation. You will be amazed to hear that Altman’s opening remarks said he believed that AI “will be at least as big as the Internet, maybe bigger,” which the tech’s…
Of the many heroes from World War 2, none were greater than tank. Zinaida Portnova? Sophie Scholl? Lyle Bouck? Very few if any of them had a 76.2mm gun capable of piercing 60mm of armour at distances of up to a kilometer. And yet who do we fill our so-called ‘hero’ shooters with? Humans. It’s…
‘Mega Zone’ was released in Japan in 1984. Following a set of exciting announcements last week (namely, Console Archives and the impending rerelease of Rave Racer), Hamster, the company behind Arcade Archives, is back to basics this week, with another arcade deep cut: Konami’s tank-based shoot ’em up, Mega Zone. The game, in case you’ve…
I really should know better than to lose my gourd over a game before it even has a gameplay trailer, but the first peeks we’ve gotten of Arkane’s Blade adaptation already have me excited. In addition to the brief teaser at The Game Awards, Arkane Lyon art director Sebastien Mitton recently shared three pieces of…