By inexplicable coincidence, the best videogames ever all seemed to come out when I was between the ages of 10 and 13. KOTOR, Oblivion—the list goes on. Scientists are presumably trying to figure out just what was in the water during that period, leading as it did to, objectively, the bestest and most important games…
One of the first American videogame magazines is now available for anyone to read, enjoy, and remix thanks to the Video Game History Foundation. Computer Entertainer, which ran from 1982 to 1990, surviving even the dark age of the videogame industry collapse, is now completely digitized and available to the public under a Creative Commons…
I think we’ve got a new contender for The Most Specific UI Option award 2025, which I must emphasise, is an entirely real award that I definitely did not make up alongside my Most Specific Bug Fix 2025 award. Quartet, a lovely little turn-based RPG by a four-person team, lets you toggle the Oxford comma…
The Galax RTX 5090 D HOF XOC Edition is an interesting graphics card. For a start, as an RTX 5090 D GPU, it’s only available in China. It’s got a ridiculous name, a ridiculous shroud design (is that a literal crown?) and it’s been overbuilt to the nth-degree for overclocking purposes—and now evidence suggests that…
I’m no risk-taker (or so I like to tell myself), and yet I have spent the past few days making extremely poor decisions with dice. Fortunately my errors in judgment haven’t bankrupted me, but they sure have led a long procession of adorable cartoon critter-folk to their cosmic doom. Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles, the debut game…
We’re still swinging, soaring, and flying high after the recent release of the critically acclaimed Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. To keep the celebration going, PlayStation Studios Music is joining forces with Marvel Games, Insomniac Games, and Disney Music Group to present the Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Soundtrack Listening Party on Thursday, November 2 at 4:00pm PT. During…
Twice the Fury AMD has answered the call for a graphics card with two GPUs based on its Fiji architecture, but the new Radeon Duo Pro isn’t really intended for the home consumer market. Instead, AMD is taking aim at content creators focused on virtual reality games and applications. This is a two-headed beast that…
The Back on Top quest in Arc Raiders is yet another of those tasks, like Greasing Her Palms, that sees you heading to multiple regions, in this case to find and mark some potential Raider outpost sites. There are four buildings you have to mark across Dam Battlegrounds, Buried City, Spaceport, and The Blue Gate,…
The three biggest players in computer memory are all tooling up major new factories, but the main impact of that won’t come until 2028 and even then it may not be enough to normalise spiralling memory prices. This analysis comes from IEEE Spectrum, which has published an overview of the current memory market and insights…
Almost 30 years later, Suikoden 1 and 2 are still marvellous adventures that expertly combine supernatural shenanigans with the more worldly horrors of bloody war and the politics behind them, sprinkled with just enough silly minigames (cooking) and collectables (for the bath) to give them balance. Need to know What is it? Two classic RPGs…