This time, someone has ported Wolfenstein 3D onto the Pico-8 fantasy console, and while it’s just the first level, it’s a pretty neat achievement when you consider the Pico-8’s specs. The console supports 128×128 pixels with up to 16 colours, and enforces a 32k memory limit. Pico-8 was where the critically acclaimed platformer Celeste first debuted, and there’s a nice selection of games to sample on the console’s official site. For reference: the original Wolfenstein 3D for DOS required a minimu

Front-address mics should be tilted at an angle toward your mouth so your voice hits the head of the mic. Room acousticsIf you’ve done all that and your voice still sounds weird, then the room acoustics might be to blame. Vaulted ceilings have great acoustics for watching a movie or listening to music, but they’re not so great for streaming, recording voice overs, or for anything other kind of recording where you need to eliminate echo. An important thing to note about shockmounts is that the el

And yet, on Monday I watched a Digital Extremes rep grinding rails in the open world zone of Orb Vallis. This gorgeous, icy new zone coming to Warframe early November as part of the Fortuna update. DE isn’t talking about high-level challenges in Orb Vallis yet, but there are huge dormant spider bots that may awaken in a future update. In Orb Vallis killing Corpus causes the zone’s security levels to increase, and tougher enemies start showing up in waves. The Fortuna update doesn’t have a precis

Whatever, the overall sense is that this isn’t Ryzen mobile at its best. That’s because it’s one of the very few mobile rigs offered with both AMD Ryzen and Intel Core processors. In short, we couldn’t assess the unit’s battery life at all. The graphics performance of the AMD Vega 3D core was also patchy. The overall sense is that this isn’t Ryzen mobile at its best.

Fallout New California topped our list of 6 big upcoming Fallout mods to look out for earlier this year. Once known as Fallout: Project Brazil, New California adds a new fully-voiced campaign, a new wasteland map, and considers itself an “unofficial prequel” to 2010’s New Vegas. “In Fallout: New California you play as the kid from Vault 18. Mutant,” creator Radian-Helix Media explains on the New California Nexus page. Fallout: New California’s playable Beta 200 is live—installation instructions

The first Fallout 76 beta for Xbox One took place yesterday, giving those who pre-ordered a nice four-hour window to wet their whistles. The next beta period has been announced by Bethesda, and unfortunately it’s not until this Saturday. The Xbox One Fallout beta will begin on Saturday, October 27, at 5 pm Eastern, and end at 7 pm. Those who did play last night… well, if they’re like me, they’re probably dying to play more and were hoping to jump right back in sometime tonight. At least the Fa

It’s still early to know if Nvidia’s GeForce RTX technology lives up to the hype and is worth the pricing premium. A user who purchased a Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 Gaming OC card complained on the company’s community forum that “it wasn’t a cheap card and it hits the power limit instantly.” “My temps are below 60 degrees (around 50-52 degrees) but the card is getting limited by its power target.” There are now BIOS updates for four models: GeForce RTX 2080 Ti and 2080 Gaming OC, and GeForce RTX

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser is glad the studio’s next game is Red Dead Redemption 2, because he wouldn’t want to release a new Grand Theft Auto game in the era of Donald Trump. It is scary but it’s also strange, and yet both of them seem occasionally to veer towards the absurd,” Houser said. Because Red Dead Redemption 2 is set a century in the past, it probably won’t explore those issues. “It may be a work of historical fiction, but it’s not a work of history,” Houser said. Red Dead Redempti

If you need a new gaming monitor and don’t want to wait for the Black Friday and Cyber Monday discounts to roll into view, you can score a good deal on an Acer Nitro Gaming VG270UP on Newegg right now. It has a 2560×1440 resolution, a fast 144Hz refresh rate, and FreeSync support. It also lists a 1ms “Visual Response Boost” response time. “Integrated Visual Response Boost (VRB) decreases blur in fast moving images to achieve the effect of a 1ms MPRT, along with up to 144 Hz refresh rates,” Acer

I like Frozenbyte’s fairy tale Trine platformers an awful lot, so it was disappointing when Trine 3’s interesting ideas failed to fully pan out. Today, the studio announced that Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince is in the works and should be out next year. “Trine 4 is going to be the best in the series,” CEO Lauri Hyvärinen said. However, Christina Seelye, CEO of publisher Modus Games, hinted we should expect the latter, saying that Trine 4 “will be the game players have been asking for.” Trine 4: T

ESIC said that the evidence against him is “compelling” and “beyond reasonable doubt,” and indicated that he cheated not just at Extremesland Asia but also at the ESL India Premiership tournament earlier in the month, which the OpTic India team won. Kumawat was facing a potential lifetime ban as a repeat offender, but ESIC opted for the five-year ban because his previous offense, in 2017, “was only very indirectly related” to this one. Additionally, he has caused great damage to Indian CS:GO and

A new entry in Ubisoft’s Designer Notes series gives Rainbow Six Siege players an update on operator balance as we continue through Operation Grim Sky. There are only a few immediate changes to balance coming in the next patch, including key nerfs to Clash as well as adjustments to SMGs and Maestro. Clash’s previous super-human weapon swap speed turned out to be the result of a bug that was corrected in last week’s patch . These further changes cement Clash’s role as a scout to make callouts and

Fear the Wolves—Vostok Games’ Stalker-inspired, Chernobyl-set battle royale—has launched a “massive” update that improves its map, and balances the behaviour of its wolves. Live now, the Treasure Map update also adds new looting rules and mechanisms designed to encourage exploration. The Treasure Map update makes a “full pass” on wolf behaviour and balancing, making them “far more dangerous” to players and offering a “true PvE challenge”. Despite enjoying the dev’s previous games, Chris said the

As reported earlier this week, GTA 5’s best visual overhaul mod is back for its final stunning update. NaturalVision Remastered’s final iteration is now available to download from GTA 5 Mods. “The new update for NaturalVision Remastered is now available for download,” says mod creator Razed. “I am hoping RDR 2 comes out on PC next year so that I can make it my next modding project. Now includes Skylighting, SSAO and SSIL effectsUpdated the ENB version and tweaked settings.

His and daughter Maddie’s retro sidescroller Battle Princess Madelyn now has a launch window. “From its initial concept days, right through the successful Kickstarter campaign which reached over $212,665 CAD, until its imminent release, Battle Princess Madelyn has developed and grown from inspiration from feedback from my daughter,” says Obritsch. “[She] inspired the original idea, games and ideals from the very best of classic retro games fused with modern presentation complete with gameplay an

Fortnite’s Halloween event—the aptly named Fortnitemares—rolls out today, as part of its update v6.20. Teased above, Fortnitemares sees The Cube spawning Cube Monsters. Large Cube Fragments are now scattered in corrupted areas of the map. Small Cube Fragments generate randomly during matches. Patch notes for Fortnite’s update v6.20 can be read in full over here.

It’s now rolled out a host of scary skins, billed as the ‘Survival Squad of Horrors’. This promo poster looks pretty cool:”Frightfully fun Halloween costumes are coming to PUBG,” reads this Steam Community post. “Starting after maintenance, you can pick up the Killer Clown, Maniacal Butcher, Ancient Mummy, and Bloody Nurse costumes in the PUBG store. Going out in a PUBG costume? Post your pics to @PUBG on Twitter or to Reddit and we’ll share them out.

Electronic Arts said today that Battlefield 5’s “Firestorm” battle royale mode won’t be available until the spring of 2019, several months after the game is released. EA revealed the wait in an update that lays out Battlefield 5’s “live service journey through the Second World War,” which will begin in December with Overture. Then in March, EA will roll out Trial By Fire, adding a map set in Greece and—finally—the Firestorm mode. A date for Firestorm hasn’t actually been set, however: The update

Twisted light takes things further by tapping into a quantum property known as the Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) of light. “Our miniature OAM nano-electronic detector is designed to separate different OAM light states in a continuous order and to decode the information carried by twisted light. “By using ultrathin topological nanosheets measuring a fraction of a millimeter, our invention does this job better and fits on the end of an optical fiber.” The Guardian points out that Australia’s nati

(Image: © Pixabay)The Complete Guide to PC Gaming PC Gamer is going back to the basics with a series of guides, how-tos, and deep dives into PC gaming’s core concepts that we’re calling The Complete Guide to PC Gaming. Even if you leave your PC running 24/7, you might one day find that it’s turned off and won’t come back to life. There are various reasons why an old PC will suddenly not turn on. Some power strips with built-in surge protection have a reset switch that needs to be pressed after a