Tag: OVERFLOW

The Ayaneo Kun is almost the king of handheld gaming PCs. I mean, that’s what the company has been aiming for with a name like that, and it gets so damned close, but there are the little things that get in the way of me giving it an unreserved recommendation as the absolute best. Having…

Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Developer: Fill in Cafe Released: 14/1/1994 (X68000) Japanese PCs: X68000, FM Towns (Image credit: Fill in Cafe) Before making shmup masterpieces like Radiant Silvergun and Ikaruga, Japanese developer…

The Asus Zephyrus G14 that earned my pick as the best 14-inch gaming laptop is gone. But don’t fret. The stalwart styling of the 2023 G14 may have given way to a newer design for 2024, but it’s sleeker, shinier and now includes the very latest AMD Ryzen mobile processors. I dare say the new…

Dark Souls: Archthrones feels like a Souls series romhack, mashing up disparate parts of FromSoftware’s body of work in a custom campaign for Dark Souls 3. This is one for the fans, full of clever winks and references to other games in the series, but as one of those fans myself, I sure do not…

It took Mars After Midnight six seconds to make me laugh. Before starting a new save file I checked the settings menu—always check the settings menu—to find only a single option with a check box: “Mirth.” Uncheck it, and Mars After Midnight’s playful squiggly text stops shaking about so much. I wouldn’t dare, to be…

Aspyr sure is running hot and cold at the moment. Right after last month’s well-regarded remasters of the first three Tomb Raider games, the company has put out the Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection, an uprezzed repackage of the original, beloved Battlefront games. It came out today and, well, oh dear. With over a thousand…

Game designer Andrew Gower, who created the legendary, still-active RuneScape MMO with his brother Paul in the early 2000s, has just unveiled a new MMO, and it’s releasing this year. Brighter Shores has been in development for 10 years, according to Gower’s studio, Fen Research. It aims to provide “a relaxing respite from daily life,”…

Attention all you gamers hell bent on the ultimate 27-inch 1440p experience. The new MSI MPG 271QRX QD-OLED monitor is here and it wants your money. Quite a lot of it, actually, as this panel has an MSRP of $800 in the US and is listed for pre-orders in the UK for £1,000. Ouch. Of…

It’s safe to say Contra passed on its crown as run-and-gun royalty a long time ago. The last truly great entry was 2011’s Hard Corps: Uprising—an unrecognizable-as-Contra game which doesn’t even bear the series name—and even before that point, Contra had muddled through multiple halfhearted reinventions in between quality games. I approached Operation Galuga with…