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Videogames were an explosion of colour in an otherwise grey year In 2021, games really just looked like this. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. 2021 was a bit grim, eh? But while the world outside was grey and dull, videogames were anything but. From psychedelic mindscapes and watercolour picture books to the knackered anime VHS that got lost behind the sofa, games were serving up some serious looks....

A lickable screen that can imitate flavours is in development Taste the flat rainbow. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Food in fantasy can be such an oddly evocative part of the overall experience, especially in videogames. Just like in movies and books, it can serve as just a small garnish adding to the overall build of the world by showing us what people who actually live there would eat, but often it goes a bit further....

After years of crappy Hollywood adaptations, videogames finally found their home on Netflix The curse of the terrible videogame movie has finally been broken. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Castlevania started as a pastiche of Universal monster movies, sending an orange guy with a whip to fight a mummy, Frankenstein’s monster, and big bad Dracula. Castlevania, the show, spent its fourth season exploring the relationships of a quartet of immortal vampire queens, reflecting on how we process grief, andlooking absolutely incredible in motion....

Asus announces a recall program for its Z690 Maximus Hero motherboards A manufacturing error is creating more than a few flames. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Just prior to Christmas, reports of failures and buring components onAsusROG Maximus Z690 Hero motherboards started to emerge. Normally an isolated incident or two wouldn’t be cause for alarm, but in the days since, more reports have emerged....

Best Stealth 2021: Hitman 3 An experimental collection of levels finishes off a triumphant trilogy. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Did you see it coming? Hitman 3 is the best stealth game this year. For more awards, head to ourGOTY 2021 hub. Fraser Brown, Online Editor:For the site, I wrote a far-too-revealing feature about really wanting a game where Agent 47 chases me....

Bitburner is an idle game about hacking that teaches real JavaScript You don’t have to know JavaScript to get started. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Want your time spent noodling around with idle games to actually bear fruit? Bitburner is an incremental-style idler that casts you as a terminal cowboy on the world wide web, hacking, stealing, and scripting your way to the top of the world....

Bully 2 got canned in 2009, say ex-devs An expose on the development of a sequel outlines a slow death. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Rockstar games was developing Bully 2 at their New England studio in 2008, and had six to seven hours of playable game content, before development halted as developers were moved to other projects. This is according to ex-developers at Rockstar New England and outlined in an expose byGame Informer, who say that by the end of 2009 Bully 2 was effectively dead....