When people ask where my interest in tech came from, I always point to the same moment in my life. The year was 1993, and I was starting first grade in a new city. I was nervous, but to help me with my big feelings, my grandmother bought me a brand-new gadget that I had…
This is also informed by an awareness that scope, fidelity, and scale are differentiators for large studios and publishers, as the barrier to entry for making (albeit not necessarily making money on) smaller games keeps falling due to improved development tools and other factors. On one hand, you could argue that the $60 or $70…
Photo: Valve Summary Steam Controller is now on sale; Steam Machine is open for pre-orders; Steam Frame is absent. Portal 2 gets a ‘Playable’ Steam Frame rating: proper glyphs, readable text, defaults work. Portal 2 can’t match the Steam Frame’s native resolution and may suffer degraded performance. After a long wait and a lot of…
In case you haven’t been following along for some reason, The Legend of Zelda is going through a very exciting time as a franchise right now. It’s celebrating 40 years since its initial release, and that really is a milestone that very few can claim to have reached, if any at all in the world…
Tidus from Final Fantasy 10 has finally ditched his awful dungarees and replaced them with something more stylish, as he received a fresh look in one of 2026’s brand-new Final Fantasy games. The cast of Final Fantasy 10 is notorious for their terrible clothing, with Seymour and Wakka standing out as representing the worst of…
Nothing makes a good rhythm game like music with a bit of energy to it. Playing tends to be a high-energy activity so for the most part you want tunes to reflect that, especially in gameplay-focused arcade-like titles. Which isn’t to say a dirge can’t work, but seeing as more notes gives more to do…
PlayStation 5 unit sales in the United States dropped 58% year on year in May, according to Circana, reaching their lowest May total since 2000. Xbox unit sales, meanwhile, reached their lowest ever recorded figures for May, dropping 12% year on year. The PS5 saw a price increase in April, with the cost of a…
While my guided tour of the new MMO Stars Reach began in the stars, Raph Koster, the veteran behind Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies, wanted to quickly get to the surface of a planet. Not to show me combat. He wanted me to see the weather. “This is the game I have wanted to…
New leaks are hinting at another pair of classic Call of Duty games receiving ports to modern consoles. The leak follows confirmation that Activision is releasing ports of two other Call of Duty games in Black Ops and Black Ops 2. Activision shocked fans when it officially confirmed the heavily rumored ports of the first…
