Dexerto • 11th September 2024

MiSTer Pi review: Elevating emulation - Dexerto

Taki Udon created a cheaper alternative to other MiSTer FPGA consoles. Does the lower cost come with too many drawbacks?It is generally agreed amongst retro gaming fans who are seriously into emulation that FPGA is the absolute best method of emulating games.


FPGA, or Field Programmable Gate Array allows for accurate replication of the circuitry in retro hardware, guaranteeing the most accurate recreation of the hardware experience. As long as you have the correct firmware ‘cores’ of course.T...

Dexerto • 23rd July 2024

Why you should switch to AMD over Intel for your next CPU - Dexerto

Intel has long dominated the PC gaming sphere, but is it time to switch to AMD? I list out all the reasons why you might want to switch over to Team Red.Our list of “Best CPUs for gaming” has an AMD chip in the top slot. The AMD Ryzen 7800X3D remains the best choice for PC gaming, despite Intel’s best efforts in the form of its 14th gen CPUs.


Intel and AMD have steadily been trading market shares since Team Red launched the “Zen” lines of CPUs way back in 2017. Since AMD introduced the X3D ga...

Dexerto • 24th April 2024

Fallout TV show catapults price of retro green phosphor displays by up to 78% - Dexerto

Vintage PCs and displays that use green phosphor, commonly seen in the Fallout TV show and gaming franchise, have experienced a price spike, which could be linked to the success of the TV show and the resurgence of the popular gaming franchise.The Fallout TV show has gone down well with both critics and fans of the games that inspired it. The Fallout franchise has a very distinct ‘retro-futuristic’ visual style with roots in Art Deco trends and early technological advances of the 1950s. This ext...

Dexerto • 21st March 2024

Nvidia RTX 50 Series: News, rumors & more - Dexerto

Looking for the latest on the Nvidia RTX 50 series graphics cards? While the GPUs remain elusive, leaks and rumors point to another generational leap in performance. The RTX 50 series of GPUs is inevitably coming. The ‘Blackwell’ architecture was announced at GTC 2024, though only the Enterprise-focussed version so far.As a result. much of the information remains speculative, since it relies on leaks provided by industry insiders Kopite7Kimi and Moore’s Law is Dead. Those two have had a relative...

UploadVR • 22nd May 2022

The Atlas Mystery Review: A Trip To The Pictures

VR escape rooms are a dime a dozen; can The Atlas Mystery separate itself from the pack? Read on for our The Atlas Mystery review.

The concept of the real-life escape room has exploded in popularity in recent years, with numerous places in many cities across the world offering various experiences ranging in theme from spy drama to high fantasy. VR developers were quick to pick up on the idea, realizing that an interactive mystery works extremely well in the new medium. Developer Top Right Corne

VRFocus • 29th June 2021

The VR Waifu Problem

There is a commonly cited ‘fact’ that the VHS format won the home videotape format wars because it allowed pornography to use the format, while Betamax would not. This is actually an apocryphal story, but nonetheless feeds into the idea that any new form of video storage and distribution will, inevitably, be used for porn. Inevitably, pornography has begun to appear in virtual reality (VR) and even augmented reality (AR). Along with that has come another trend, something I have dubbed ‘Waifu Sim

Only Single Player • 15th December 2019

Disco Elysium's Surreal, Table-Top-Style Story Provides an Adventure Like No Other — Single-Player Memories 2019 - OnlySP

The impact that good writing has on video games is often underestimated. Since a lot of games still rely on simplistic plots and cliché character motivations, critics sometimes dismiss the writing in a video game easily. Some games, however, take their words to the next level, and such is the case with Disco Elysium.

Characters in video games usually have fairly direct goals—rescue the princess, defeat the bad guy, find the macguffin, and so on. Disco Elysium tosses all that out of the window.

Only Single Player • 19th November 2019

Revenge of THAC0 — Icewind Dale, Baldur’s Gate, and Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition - OnlySP

In spring 2003, four geeks sit in a sweltering attic room, playing on cobbled-together PCs and trying to get their heads around the intricacies of Icewind Dale. This task is more difficult than expected, thanks to the game using the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition rules as its basis. Now, modern-day gamers can also have the experience of trying to decipher the 2nd Edition ruleset with the launch of the Icewind Dale, Baldur’s Gate, Baldur’s Gate 2, and Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition

Only Single Player • 31st October 2019

Fatal Frame Needs To Be in VR - OnlySP

Five years have passed since the last Fatal Frame (a.k.a Zero or Project Zero) game was released on the Wii U. Fans have been clamouring for a revival of the series since then, with many hoping for a new game on the Switch. However, an opportunity exists for the series to go in a new direction, one which could make Fatal Frame even scarier.

Horror in virtual reality (VR) tends to work extremely well. The immersion and immediacy of VR means that the scares feel much more personal, since players