Here we go folks, Best Buy’s Day 1 Black Friday Doorbuster deals are now live! Yesterday we featured the brand’s Black Friday sneak peak online ad as well as some of the early Doorbuster deals as part of Best Buy’s early access sale for Plus and Total ...
Apple finally included a telephoto lens in its iPhone 15 Pro Max last year, with the upgrade extended to the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max. This is just one of the many examples of how the Cupertino firm adopts various standards much later than the competition, likely because it wants to offer the best configuration to customers. One other technology that the company is said to bring for the iPhone 18 that rivals like Samsung introduced years ago is variable aperture for the main camera, and according to one analyst, another supplier will provide these parts. Sunny […]
The use of TSMC’s second-generation 3nm process for the M4 series has made Apple’s latest chipsets more thermally efficient, but that does not mean that a capable cooling solution should be ignored from the rest of the hardware configuration. In fact, depending on how robust that solution is, we can actually get more performance from the M4, as demonstrated in the latest Premiere Pro 4K Export test, where the redesigned Mac mini is faster than Apple’s updated 14-inch MacBook Pro. However, one other hardware ends up taking the crown, and we will discuss why this is happening. The 24-inch M4 […]
Metyr is the ultimate troll from Miyazaki, and a tough fight to boot. Well, glove. But we’ve got you covered on how to take on this monstrosity of fleshy digits.Read more...
The Xbox 360 is one of the all-time great consoles that, among other things, spearheaded the ecosystem for indie games and digital downloads. That makes the closure of the Xbox 360 marketplace at the end of July all the more bittersweet, as the console...
To think, the Shadow Keep seemed to be going so well, and then you run into a vicious, fiery, reptilian wall. Messmer is just an absolute unholy nightmare of unorthodox timing, neverending combos, health-sapping flames, and massive one-shot explosions....
By now, most players who have dived into Shadow of the Erdtree have probably met Igon, Elden Ring’s most tortured but ardent hater. Since the release of the expansion some weeks ago, Igon’s quickly become a fan-favorite character, which has a lot to do...
This week saw some “discourse” flare up around the storytelling in Final Fantasy 14 and specifically its new expansion, Dawntrail, and we’ve got thoughts. Also, don’t miss our commentary on what appears to be Sony winding down active support for the PS...
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is really hard, guys. Famed boss beater Let Me Solo Her (who recently rebranded as Let Me Solo Him to fight the expansion’s tough boss, Messmer) struggled with FromSoftware’s DLC, frustrated players review-bombed the g...
For over 14 years, Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin has been writing The Winds of Winter, the next book in his beloved fantasy saga. The HBO series inspired by the novels extended past his writing long before its final episode aired in 2019, ...
It turns out that everybody struggles with FromSotware’s tough-as-nails difficulty, even FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki. The studio head and creator of the Souls series revealed that in preparation for Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, ...
Shadow of the Erdtree is Elden Ring’s only expansion, and is therefore a really big deal. After years of anticipation, it finally landed last week, and players have been digging into it ever since. Evidently there’s a lot there, considering this expans...
As it turns out, Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion is in fact brutally difficult. However, for the countless players that have gotten stumped by the DLC’s immense difficulty spike, there’s actually a pretty simple solution to your troubles: ...
It’s Elden Ring day, again. Shadow of the Erdtree, its long-awaited and massive expansion, is finally live and, surprise, it’s really, really hard. Even veteran players are getting their asses kicked. Whether it’s new bosses or random scrubs out in the...
Today, Elden Ring gets its first and only expansion, Shadow of the Erdtree. As part of an interview with Rolling Stone, game director and FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki took the opportunity to discuss some other games he'd like to make in the future. Surprisingly, the Elden Ring creator would like to make a traditional JRPG. Long-time FromSoftware will certainly remember Enchanted Arms, the turn-based JRPG made by the studio and published by Ubisoft in 2006 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. However, it doesn't sound like Miyazaki would be interested in a sequel, mainly because he doesn't believe in following […]
As part of its Q2 FY 2025 financial presentation, SEGA has announced the sale of Amplitude Studios, the Paris-based studio known as the developer of Endless Space, Endless Legend, Dungeon of the Endless, Endless Space 2, Humankind, and more recently, Endless Dungeon. SEGA explained this concludes its wave of restructuring the European business, which previously included the sale of Relic Entertainment and substantial layoffs. The Group recorded an extraordinary loss of approximately ¥5.9 billion ($38.7 million) in the second quarter for the fiscal year due to the sale of overseas development studio Amplitude Studios SAS through a management buyout. [...] […]
The Target 3-day early Black Friday sale is now live but we are also now onto Day 8 of its Black Friday Deals of the Day. There are now “thousands of deals” live over at Target alongside the now live Best Buy early Doorbuster sale, and the daily deals ...
Metyr is the ultimate troll from Miyazaki, and a tough fight to boot. Well, glove. But we’ve got you covered on how to take on this monstrosity of fleshy digits.Read more...
The Xbox 360 is one of the all-time great consoles that, among other things, spearheaded the ecosystem for indie games and digital downloads. That makes the closure of the Xbox 360 marketplace at the end of July all the more bittersweet, as the console...
To think, the Shadow Keep seemed to be going so well, and then you run into a vicious, fiery, reptilian wall. Messmer is just an absolute unholy nightmare of unorthodox timing, neverending combos, health-sapping flames, and massive one-shot explosions....
By now, most players who have dived into Shadow of the Erdtree have probably met Igon, Elden Ring’s most tortured but ardent hater. Since the release of the expansion some weeks ago, Igon’s quickly become a fan-favorite character, which has a lot to do...
This week saw some “discourse” flare up around the storytelling in Final Fantasy 14 and specifically its new expansion, Dawntrail, and we’ve got thoughts. Also, don’t miss our commentary on what appears to be Sony winding down active support for the PS...
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is really hard, guys. Famed boss beater Let Me Solo Her (who recently rebranded as Let Me Solo Him to fight the expansion’s tough boss, Messmer) struggled with FromSoftware’s DLC, frustrated players review-bombed the g...
For over 14 years, Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin has been writing The Winds of Winter, the next book in his beloved fantasy saga. The HBO series inspired by the novels extended past his writing long before its final episode aired in 2019, ...
It turns out that everybody struggles with FromSotware’s tough-as-nails difficulty, even FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki. The studio head and creator of the Souls series revealed that in preparation for Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, ...
Shadow of the Erdtree is Elden Ring’s only expansion, and is therefore a really big deal. After years of anticipation, it finally landed last week, and players have been digging into it ever since. Evidently there’s a lot there, considering this expans...
As it turns out, Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree expansion is in fact brutally difficult. However, for the countless players that have gotten stumped by the DLC’s immense difficulty spike, there’s actually a pretty simple solution to your troubles: ...
It’s Elden Ring day, again. Shadow of the Erdtree, its long-awaited and massive expansion, is finally live and, surprise, it’s really, really hard. Even veteran players are getting their asses kicked. Whether it’s new bosses or random scrubs out in the...
Today, Elden Ring gets its first and only expansion, Shadow of the Erdtree. As part of an interview with Rolling Stone, game director and FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki took the opportunity to discuss some other games he'd like to make in the future. Surprisingly, the Elden Ring creator would like to make a traditional JRPG. Long-time FromSoftware will certainly remember Enchanted Arms, the turn-based JRPG made by the studio and published by Ubisoft in 2006 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. However, it doesn't sound like Miyazaki would be interested in a sequel, mainly because he doesn't believe in following […]