An interview with Merritt K, chronicler of a crucial, awkward time in PC gaming.

The top-voted Steam review for monster battler Wild Hearts, released on Thursday, is a thumbs down: one of approximately 1,700 negative reviews posted in Wild Hearts' first 24 hours on the store, earning it a "mostly negative" summary. "The price is higher than the FPS you will be able to pull in this game," the review reads. 571 people marked it helpful. Five people reacted with a slow clap emoji. One awarded it the prestigious Michelangelo trophy.

Google will shut down its Stadia cloud-gaming service in the UK on Thursday, as it issues refunds to gamers. Stadia was touted as a "Netflix for games" when it launched, in November 2019, allowing players to stream games online without a PC or console. The service will be inaccessible after 08:00 on 19 January in the UK, with gamers telling BBC News they are "heartbroken" to see it go.

The Mechanical Turk quickly became a symbol of technological innovation and sparked the same heated debates we’re having right now about the nature of artificial intelligence, the limits of human ingenuity, and the possibility of constructing a machine capable of replicating human thought.

There are stories that some of us, at a certain stage of adulthood, should never hear. Not if we value our time or our storage space. I regret to inform you that Mike Brixius, on his RavenWolf Retro Tech channel, offers just such a story about his quest to finish his own Commodore 64 CRPG from 1984. He will be able to do it, too, because he kept all the disks, tapes, notes, and hand-documented assembly code print-outs ever since his teenage project.

Resident Evil 4 Remake leaks have now begun to emerge over the internet, and fans can now get an early look at the fan-favorite character, Ada Wong. The leaks, including an early look at fan-favorite character Ada Wong, originated from TikTok user eternalchamp86, who appears to have got their hands on an early copy of Resident Evil 4 Remake. We’d like to take this opportunity to warn fans to follow the link with caution, as it contains both story, location, and boss fight spoiler for some of the later sections of the game. If you’re looking to head in blind on launch day i.e. March 24, 2023, we’d advise that you stop reading right here.

Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has commented on the battle between Microsoft and rivals Sony and Nintendo, saying Xbox sits in third place and the idea that Microsoft could just make better games to gain marketshare doesn't hold up. Spencer said even if Starfield is the best game in the history of the world, that wouldn't be enough to help Xbox overtake PlayStation.

YouTuber Stop Skeletons From Fighting has made a video explaining the latest endeavours of touchHLE and how it will preserve digital games.

The Information claims to have once again received insider information from sources close to Apple who are familiar with the development of Apple’s XR headset. The report contains numerous technical details about the headset, including new information.

Mira makes headsets for other companies and the military.

It sounds like Microsoft will treat Call of Duty like Minecraft.

It's been a challenging couple of years for the GPU industry, with it hitting a not-so-great milestone recently: a new report from JPR(opens in new tab) says that in Q3 of this year, GPU shipments dropped 10.3% from the previous quarter. Year-to-year, overall shipments on GPUs are down about 25%, which includes standalone GPUs as well as those shipped inside desktops and laptops. That's the biggest drop in GPU shipments since the 2009 recession.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie has jumped past $1 billion at the global box office and has become the 10th animated film to achieve that impressive milestone.

Video game sales are set to decline annually for the first time in years, as another industry that boomed in the coronavirus era faces the grim prospect of a recession. The global games and services market is forecast to contract 1.2% year-on-year to $188 billion in 2022, according to research from market data firm Ampere Analysis.

Despite their bulk, the vivid colors and low latency of a CRT can still make the right PC games look absolutely incredible today.

After six hugely successful years, and following the release of celebrated Game of the Year contender Tears of the Kingdom, Nintendo's much-loved and record-breaking hybrid is now ebbing ever closer to culminating its well-performed role as the company's primary hardware.

In 2023, we should expect better from Nintendo

What's what with open-source news.

It turns out that some beloved NES games have been hiding incredible secrets.

Microsoft says that Sony is the gaming industry leader in response to an announcement of a probe into the acquisition of Activision Blizzard.