Posts

It took me visiting a Taito Station arcade in Japan to truly understand what makes arcades special. I’ve always been infatuated with arcade-inspired games. I enjoy revisiting those classics and love learning about their history and importance to the game industry. By the time I was old enough to feel all that, though, arcades had died out in North America. I’m most familiar with arcades as part of larger establishments like Dave & Buster’s or bowling alleys rather than standalone entities....

Summary Top Gun 3is happening, but when it will actually come out has just become a big cause of concern for me after a couple of updates about Tom Cruise’s successors. WhenTop Gun: Maverickcame out, it had been three and a half decades sinceTony Scott’s originalTop Guncame out in 1986and catapulted Cruise to a different level of stardom. The sequel convinced me that good things are worth waiting for. I loved it so much thatTop Gun: Maverickwas the only movie that I watched three times in the theater since 2019’sAvengers: Endgame....

Update: Nikon launches the Z7 and Z6 cameras at a special event in Tokyo, and Digital Trends was there to document it all.Here’s what we learned. The smoke from Nikon’s long-rumored advanced mirrorless camera is starting to show a tiny lick of flame. On Sunday, July 22,Nikon Europe published a teaser videothat appears to show a high-end mirrorless camera. While the video doesn’t come with any details and Nikon isn’t saying if the silhouetted camera in the video is, in fact, full-frame as the rumors have speculated, the official video suggests that a big announcement is on the horizon....

While I’m only partway throughSuper Mario Bros. Wonder, I’m already utterly in love with the game. As our glowing review outlined, it’s a highly polished 2D platformer that’s approachable for anyone to play and elicits a joyous and vibrant sense of wonder. But for me, what makesSuper Mario Bros. Wonderspecial aren’t so much the wild Wonder effects or elephant transformations. It’s the subtle touches. These elements might not be immediately noticeable or relevant to most, but they all work together to create an experience that’s a step above most other platformers....

“Why you can trust Digital Trends – We have a 20-year history of testing, reviewing, and rating products, services and apps to help you make a sound buying decision. Find out we test and score products.“ We’ve reviewed a good number of Marantz’s receivers over the years, including theSR6004,SR6005, andSR6006. The SR6004 and SR6006 specifically stood out as solid performers, artfully balancing features and performance few can match at the $1,200 price point....

Marvel Rivals players slam “pointless” Closed Beta Battle Pass rewards Marvel Rivals players are frustrated by the game’s Closed Beta Battle Pass and rewards, raising concerns about how the game will handle timed content moving forward. Following an Alpha in May, Marvel Rivals is back with aClosed Betaon PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S that runs until August 5. The latest test allows players to try out the game and its various superheroes, including new charactersThorandJeff the Land Shark....

Will the future of space exploration involve swarms of smart robots aiding astronauts by mining for resources, or even autonomously preparing other planets for human habitation? It sounds like (and is) the stuff of weighty science fiction epics. But it’s also the plan of a Californian company namedOffWorld, which is busy developing the necessary technology to corner this market in the coming years. “There’s a bleeding edge of our society which yearns for the frontier,” OffWorld CEO Jim Keravala told Digital Trends....

Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater runs worse on PS5 Pro than base PS5 Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eatershocked fans afterDigital Foundryrevealed it actually ran worse on PS5 Pro than the base PS5. Unreal Engine 5 has powered some stunning games, but it has also earned a reputation for performance headaches. Stutters, inconsistent frame pacing, and heavy effects often push consoles to their limits. Fans expected Metal Gear Solid Delta to rise above those struggles....

Microsoft announces massive change to iconic Windows BSOD error Microsoft is changing the design of one of its most notorious error messages to make it easier to recover when your computer crashes. If your Windows computer suffered a crash at some point in the last 40 years, you’ve seen the infamous “Blue Screen of Death.” The blue screen would appear and give users an error code to use that would help diagnose the issue, and with Windows 8, they spruced it up to include a frowny face....

A patent applicationpublished on Thursday, August 2, describes a two-screen pocket-sized device that is likely tied to Microsoft’s Andromeda project. Labeled “Navigational Aid for a Hinged Device via Semantic Abstraction,” it describes how the hinge can be used to locate specific sections of content displayed on the two screens. Thus, rather than visually scanning page by page, these sections can be grouped together on both displays. According to the patent, sections are pulled from the content using a variety of different information stemming from said content, the device owner, other users, and the content’s author(s)....

NASA has been awarded a sum of $125 million to develop nuclear thermal propulsion systems for its future spacecraft.First reported by Space.com, the award was given as part of a total $22.3 billion of funding for NASA in a commerce, justice, and science (CJS) appropriations bill approved by the House Appropriations Committee this month. “The bill’s investment in nuclear thermal propulsion is critical as NASA works towards the design of a flight demonstration by 2024,” said Robert Aderholt, the U....

Four volunteers are about to enter a simulated Mars habitat where they’ll spend the next 378 days as part of ongoing preparations for the first crewed mission to the faraway planet. The specially designed, enclosed habitat at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, will host Alyssa Shannon, Ross Brockwell, Kelly Haston, and Nathan Jones from Sunday, June 25. The team’s experience spans science, engineering, and health, and each member will use their specific skills during their stay....

After successfully assembling the entire observatory of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, technicians and engineers tested its tennis court sized sunshield.NASA/Chris Gunn NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is unlikely to meet its launch date later this year, according toa new reportby the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO), first documented byArs Technica. The report, titled “James Webb Space Telescope: Technical Challenges Have Caused Schedule Strain and May Increase Costs,” details an investigation by the GAO into the latest status of the troubled telescope....