The birds are shining, the trees are singing, the sun is swaying in the breeze: it’s the year 1999, and Baldur’s Gate has just got another patch. Everything is perfect, and nothing hurts. Wait, no, my mistake. It’s 2026, and everything is bad. Good news, though: the Baldur’s Gate patch thing is actually true. 14…
BritneysPAIRS is back with a bang, delivering the highly anticipated CoinOps Deluxe 2025 MAX—a fully loaded powerhouse of retro gaming goodness! At 109GB, this release is the biggest and most ambitious build yet, redefining what it means to bring the arcade experience home. If you thought the Inspire release was something special, MAX takes things…
The showstopper of my hands-on preview of Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth was a boss battle with a shark, so the series which has historically made me fistfight tigers, bears, and an excavator is not getting any less bombastic. It’s also not getting any smaller, developer RGG said, and during the hands-on preview session I…
Indie developer Polyhedra Games just has a single 30-second YouTube video and a Steam page showing off its upcoming FPS, Cyberlich and the Death Cult of Labor, but man, does it make an impression. The shooter boasts a knockout cartoony art style and anarchic sense of humor straight out of the classic Adult Swim days—an…
While not as flashy as Star Citizen or as popular as No Man’s Sky, X4: Foundations is one of the most comprehensive space sims you can play today. Representing a return to form after the failed experiment that was X: Rebirth, X4 continues the series tradition of offering a preposterously detailed simulation of space—featuring trading,…
While the first Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs are now with us in the form of mighty (and perhaps melty?) graphics cards, some of us have been looking towards mobile versions of the GPUs for our slice of the Blackwell pie. We’ve been waiting until a March launch for RTX 50-series laptops, and now Nvidia has…
Go big (capacity) or go home Now that it no longer requires taking out a second mortgage to fund a solid-state drive upgrade, maybe we’ll start seeing an influx of high capacity SSDs. Is that too much to ask? Not of Patriot Memory, which arrived at the Consumer Electronics Show with its new and capacious…
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Just a quick update re-confirming some earlier rumors that I wrote about for everyone, since word is that people are saying they aren’t true. A remake of Stern Pinball’s The Walking Dead IS happening this fall. I’m accepting bets on it for anyone who is interested. Also, Stern is planning on making use of those…
Larian is out of the D&D game and that’s left Wizards of the Coast scrambling a little bit to figure out how to follow it up. Today the studio revealed at least one of its plans for a post-Baldur’s Gate 3 world: A publishing deal with Giant Skull for “an all-new singleplayer action-adventure title set…