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Retro hardware experiments can sometimes go too far. This time, an original Xbox has been turned into a portable — and potentially hazardous — gaming device. The original Xbox was once regarded as the bulkiest console of its generation. Yet a creator known as James Channel set out to prove that even such a machine...
At Egoist Fest 2025, the creators of “Blue Lock” unveiled two new projects. The sports anime “Blue Lock” will return for a third season, which will adapt the “Neo Egoists League” arc. The story picks up after the match against Japan’s U-20 youth national team. Youth squads from Europe’s leading football nations — Germany, France,...
Players continue to discover ever more inventive ways to use redstone. The blocky sandbox Minecraft offers abundant opportunities for creative expression. The creator behind the YouTube channel sammyuri set out to assemble a compact language model. The dimensions of his “small” model, CraftGPT, measure 1020 × 260 × 1656 blocks. He clarified that, because of...
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves n’est sorti que récemment, mais SNK ne laisse pas retomber la flamme de sa franchise historique. Après un long repos de 26 ans, l’éditeur japonais relance Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers (1998) — un épisode souvent cité comme l’un des meilleurs de la série — via une...
Over the course of his career, the Rockstar co‑founder has helped develop numerous games. Dan Houser has departed from Rockstar Games. He previously contributed to virtually every Grand Theft Auto project, so many people assumed he might have been involved with the new title as well. However, Dan Houser recently said he did not take...
Steam offers a huge catalog, but some titles attract particular attention before launch and quickly rise in the most anticipated rankings. You can add a game to your Steam wishlist, which lets developers measure how much interest their project generates. Titles that are frequently wishlisted climb the charts, moving closer to the top and drawing...
Some entrepreneurs have tried to cash in on the game’s recent buzz. In the looter-shooter Borderlands 4, players scour the world for powerful gear, and a few saw a business opportunity: merchants attempting to monetize in-game weapons. Listings offering modified Borderlands 4 weapons started appearing online, but demand for such items has proven fairly modest....
Image: Fuji TV Cooking shows have been part of television almost as long as the medium itself, but the competitive variety—think Top Chef and The Great British Bake Off—is a more recent invention. Like many cultural exports we celebrate, that format traces roots to 1990s Japan. Iron Chef reinvented the genre by turning a recipe...
Some players find the game’s default combat system unsatisfactory. While waiting for The Witcher 4, many players continue to support The Witcher 3. Recently, one enthusiast set out to refresh the combat mechanics. Modder fallanmorgh proposed several changes to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt to make battles more faithful to the lore from Andrzej Sapkowski’s...
The Phantom Liberty expansion for CD Projekt RED’s game delighted many. September marks another anniversary of the Phantom Liberty expansion for Cyberpunk 2077. One of the studio’s lead developers joined in the celebration. Cyberpunk 2077’s quest director, Paweł Sasko, posted on social media and appended a smiling emoji with tear-filled eyes: “Phantom Liberty felt like...
