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As you may already suspect, the ZX Spectrum was a bit before my time. Still, a whole home computer crammed inside a relatively svelte keyboard is something with timeless appeal. Enter HP's latest update to the EliteBoard, a modern day keyboard-PC costing far more than the ZX Spectrum ever did.HP's Eliteboard series debuted with the G1a at CES 2026, which boasted a Kraken Point APU and a Radeon 860M integrated...
With companies, tech execs, and outlets such as yours truly telling everyone over and over again—sometimes very literally—that it's difficult to get your hands on memory right now and will be for some time, it can be a bit jarring to think about what the AI bigwigs are getting up to. I picture that scene where The Joker slides down a pile of cash, except it's DRAM. Anyway, case-in-point is...
It kinda looks like the only actually gaming-focused Nvidia GPU we're going to be left with next year is an RTX 5070 Ti. And even then only at a massively inflated price point. That's my personal takeaway from the rumours of the RTX 5090 being axed in favour of shifting GB202 GPUs to professional RTX Pro cards, and of a 24 GB RTX 5080 being brought in to replace the...
Remember when they did motion capture on a cube? Well, more specifically, they put actor Jack Quaid in a motion capture suit and then they put him inside a cube for his role in God of War Laufey. As charming as that cutting edge cuboid is, I think VR gamers and Vtubers are gonna be all over fresh research out of MIT.Engineers at MIT have developed a sheet full of...
Tempest | RTX 5070 Ti | 9800X3D: was $2699.99 now $2430You can get similar performance to what you'll get out of this rig for a bit cheaper if you're willing to go for AMD, but if you're keen on sticking with Nvidia, this is about as cheap as you'll get something so high-end. The CPU-GPU combo here will have you powering through modern games at 1440p and even at 4K...
The Sims-style house building and customisation.133 new trading posts and economy overhauls via supply and demand.20 new types of small animal. Also a shotgun.Pinball.Birdwatching.A pond for keeping fish. I only just learned about this one.And that's all already on top of the pre-existing camp management, minigames, pet loyalty and collection system, transmog, market manipulation and banking, cooking, fishing, mount collecting, bounties—and I am almost certain I've missed some stuff. But...
Years ago, I read that Jake Solomon prototyped the Firaxis reboot of XCOM by making a simple board game version. Something rudimentary that could be played in the office on scrap paper to get ideas across and figure out where the fun would be, without having to commit. But it's surprising to hear the same idea being used for a game as different from XCOM's turn-based tactics as Star Wars...
There are mods for Seamless Grav Jumps and for Seamless Planet Takeoffs. But when you arrive at a planet in Starfield you still have to choose a landing spot, and then watch a loading screen and an animation. It's another thing that contributes to the feeling your spaceship is more like a house that can teleport.When you're in space, Starfield's planets are basically just textures you can fly right through...
The Golden Joystick Awards have been running for so long there was a period where they awarded separate prizes for 8-bit and 16-bit games in each category. In 1988, rail shooter Operation Wolf was the 8-bit Computer Game of the Year, while the Bitmap Brothers' futuresport Speedball took home 16-bit Computer Game of the Year.The shortlist of nominees in publicly voted categories for this year's 44th annual Golden Joystick Awards...