Hades II arrives this week on PS5 and Xbox Series. We have a new feature covering it across all platforms and devices going over visuals, performance, load times, and more to help find the best version for you: www.rpgsite.net/feature/2010...
Love low poly pigeon
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 1597, May 2023.
We remember... George Hersee - BBC engineer 29 December 1924 – 11 April 2001 Age 76 He joined the BBC in 1949 specialising in lens and test card transparency specifications and became one of the leaders in this new field. In the 1960's, Hersee was tasked with creating the first colour testcard. The result is the legendary Testcard F below featuring George's daughter Carole and her toy. George left the BBC after 30 years to work with a private engineering company.
We remember...
George Hersee - BBC engineer
29 December 1924 – 11 April 2001
Age 76
He joined the BBC in 1949. In the 1960's, Hersee was tasked with creating the first colour testcard. The result is the legendary Testcard F below featuring George's daughter Carole.
George left the BBC in 1979.
I love the Speedmaster to death, and imo people should always buy the one with the original hesalite crystal. just in case you need to go to the moon
I was on Slate's Hang up and Listen podcast to speak about Saudi Arabian sportswashing in the FGC. What's been happening, why it's happened, and what the future holds. You can listen to it below!
open.spotify.com/episode/315Y...
I do have concerns that this is a brand/marketing setup that has now completely forgotten how to play all but one particularly tired song which only a shrinking but virulently vocal group of people enjoys singing along to any more
I do think if Xbox is trying to recreate the 'Scorpio' marketing cycle with 'Helix' that is a mistake, given there was also an attempt to do that with 'Project Scarlett', a campaign which didn't land the same way & basically nobody now remembers
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
They specifically marketed Luna at the start as a route around expensive hardware, but if anyone fell for that (which, to be fair, few clearly did) & built a library there they're now SOL, which after four years is a pretty poor innings really
Mainly I just think outright purchases + cloud streaming as an 'exclusive' thing does not work. Subscription services which include a bunch of games - that works, cos you understand if you discontinue the sub (or if they do) the content disappears. But when you're buying specific products...
Nvidia has made a conscious decision to not let you do that, though. It'd be very easy to build store hooks into GFN, especially on devices like the shield. They haven't cos I think they know it opens up this can of worms (ie publisher GFN agreements can expire, revoking game keys from servers etc)
I suppose what I'm saying is, once you start selling games INSIDE your streamer as an 'all in one' solution, I think a greater degree of responsibility is raised. What good does pointing people to the EA App or GOG if they bought via Luna specifically cos they don't have hardware?
A key differentiator is that GeForce Now, for instance, does not sell you games directly - so they can't be held responsible for potentially unusable libraries if the service is revoked, as it's sorta in for the bargain on that one.
If you bought it on the understanding that it would be playable via Luna, though, I think the closure of Luna's services on that front (especially so soon) should result in compensation of /some/ description.
i love the all digital future
It's hard to make sense of Disgaea Mayhem, but perhaps that's part of its charm: www.rpgsite.net/preview/20070-its-hard-t...
Some people with particularly bad setups will inevitably have some problems, but the majority will almost certainly fall into whatever sweet spot they've tooled for
I mean, the game will be configured for it. The latency window on the Wii was dramatically more lenient than on DS/3DS, where they had minute knowledge of the handful of panels they needed to support. And lo, most players didn't really notice the difference
He has so much health
Cool! rdlm converted the Neo Geo CD-exclusive Scotland course for cartridge systems:
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Key takeaways:
*Outbound referral traffic from ChatGPT to the rest of the web grew 206% in 2025
*Over 30% of all referral traffic from ChatGPT goes to 10 domains. And over 20% goes to Google
*ChatGPT enables its search feature on just 34.5% of queries as of February 2026 — down from 46% in late 2024
there's a comedian who had a great bit about this where it boiled down to -- on the left, we will constantly check folk & reject people who don't get it 100% right even if they are absolutely on our side, meanwhile on the Right seldom do they go 'well, I'm more racist than you. I'm a TRUE racist'
It speaks to a problem we have on the left in general, which is even when someone is saying something we agree with if it isn't said in exactly the right way you are rejected/ridiculed/whatever else. Like maybe accept the allies
this is just a huff and puff bonus screen, to me
Starfield has seen notable updates and improvements since launch making it a better experience, but it is still Starfield. Our PS5 Pro impressions: www.rpgsite.net/feature/20040-starfield-...
We should be asking why we allowed so much of the internet to hinge on such a small amount of infrastructure - bad in itself - but then further which dipshits decided to place so much of said infrastructure in one (often unstable) region