“This is how you share a game…”. Yesterday, Sony dropped a bombshell – it’s dropping physical media for its PlayStation 5 console, and has confirmed that its successor will be digital-only. The news comes as the market follows the trend set by the music and movie sectors, which have become largely digital over the past…
“We have attempted to work with the industry’s trade organisation to find a legal path”. Yesterday, PlayStation hit fans with a double whammy of bad news, revealing that it would not only stop producing disc versions of its games by 2028 but that it also plans to close the PS3 and PS Vita digital storefronts…
AMD’s latest line of GPUs barely followed MSRP at launch, and yet they may be set to get even pricier in the future. As reported by Sweclockers, a poster took to Board Channels, a forum for communicating between manufacturers and partners, to share news of an AMD price increase. Effectively, it claims that Sapphire, Asus,…
A atualidade da personalização: do físico ao digital A cena de customização em jogos eletrônicos alcança uma nova relevância com o crescimento de comunidades dedicadas à modificação e personalização visual. O interesse por itens exclusivos e raros permanece constante entre os entusiastas do retrô e gerações que buscam novas formas de colecionar. Uma tendência recente…
On September 22, Dune: Awakening is coming to PlayStation 5. Dune: Awakening is an open world survival game set on the most legendary planet in the universe: Arrakis. Rise from survival to greatness, as you explore, build, craft, and unravel a cinematic Dune story that asks the mind-bending question: what if Paul Atreides was never…
Having been playing games almost as long as I’ve been alive, I’ve fought and killed more goblins than I could ever hope to count. While MMOs, RPGs, RTSes, and all kinds of other acronyms have happily enabled my lifelong war with goblinkind, Flask—an autobattler that just released a demo on Steam—is the rare sort of…
As a Brit, I’ve been thinking a lot about the climate crisis since last month’s historic heatwave. With many buildings across the UK designed to retain heat, we’re simply not built for 37°C/98.6°F weather. Causes of climate change are numerous, and I know we didn’t get here solely due to the advent of AI, but…
One consequence of the AI boom is that tons of infrastructure is needed to power and run all the massive data centres, and naturally, all that infrastructure is worth a lot of money. And it seems like cargo thieves have caught on to this fact. As reported by Business Insider, investigators with Illinois’ Cook County…
Coming this August! It’s a good time to be a Worms fan. Not only has Digital Eclipse just released an amazing anniversary edition of Worms Armageddon, but the series’ original creator, Andy Davidson, has recently revealed plans for an updated version of Worms Director’s Cut for the Commodore Amiga, tentatively titled Worms DC 1.5. The…
We have unfortunately been barrelling towards a digitised future for some time now, but Sony’s latest news that PlayStation will be fully digital by 2028 has heightened fears that players have about ownership and the inability to preserve art. The fear is so palpable that even Hideo Kojima has commented on the situation now. “Eventually,…