MARIO KART is finally coming to mobiles, and you could be playing it as soon as next month. Nintendo originally said the game was going to be out before the end of March this year, but have since delayed it until some time this summer. We don't know much about the racing game other than the fact it is a mobile version of the series that kicked off on the Super Nintendo back in 1992. Mario Kart games have always featured the same basic formula though, whether they're on home consoles, mobile games machines or in arcades. You can pick one of a number of characters from the world of Mario, and race against other characters around a number of tracks set in the same world as the regular Mario games. Different characters have different racing abilities, and you can all pick up items to use during the race to give yourself a boost or knock your opponents down a peg or too. The website for the Mario Kart Tour doesn't offer many hints how it might develop on this formula. It does suggest the … [Read more...] about Mario Kart Tour coming to Android phones next month – here’s how you can play
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Elder Scrolls Blades review in progress: An impressive mobile game held back by aggressive microtransactions
You’d think after the troubles of Fallout 76, and seeing just how fast a fanbase could turn, Bethesda would play an easy ball with Blades. But, instead, it’s taken an impressive looking mobile game and pinned its wings with an aggressive microtransaction system that holds your wallet to ransom after the first few hours. It’s Early Access at least so hopefully there’s time to change things because there is a good game here, and I don’t mind paying for it in a friendly, more approachable way - but right now the microtransactions feel obtrusive and placed to block the most basic elements of the game. A cut aboveLet’s focus on the good stuff first though: Blades is an incredible looking mobile game. It’s set shortly after the Fourth Era Great War, which puts it between Oblivion and Skyrim for timeline fans. This is a pocket Oblivion though by any other name. It’s towns and enemies might have a more generic Elder Scrolls feel initially … [Read more...] about Elder Scrolls Blades review in progress: An impressive mobile game held back by aggressive microtransactions
Samsung Galaxy S10: Ultimate guide to 2019’s BIGGEST phone release
TECH fans are finally going to see Samsung's long-awaited Galaxy S10 launch later today – but is this new flagship smartphone a decent rival for Apple's latest iPhone models? We've put together the ultimate guide to the Galaxy S10 release date, specs, price and best features, plus the absolute latest Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10+ and Galaxy S10e news, rumours and leaks. These include a Norwegian Galaxy S10 TV ad, which came to light just ahead of today's big Samsung Unpacked launch and has been widely shared on YouTube. As well as giving us a crystal clear look at the Galaxy S10, it also confirms the existence of Samsung's wireless earbuds, called Galaxy Buds. This guide also gives you a look at some of the Galaxy S10 cases set to launch with the new phone, and answers perhaps the most important question: will there be a 5G Galaxy S10 model? Everything you need to know about the Samsung Galaxy S10 is right here.Samsung Unpacked 2019 live stream – date, time and how to watch the … [Read more...] about Samsung Galaxy S10: Ultimate guide to 2019’s BIGGEST phone release
Fortnite on iOS gives mobile players superpowers but makes them ineffective at range
Fortnite, the game you’ve been playing on your £800 gaming PC or £400 console, is now playable on your phone. Admittedly the devices that can run it are around the same price, but the fact you can play one of the most popular PC games in the world right now on your mobile is impressive. This is the full Fortnite experience – well, the Battle Royale part of it – in your damn pocket. It’s the same map, ruleset, weapons, the same building mechanics, the same player count – there is parity everywhere except for in the controls and on the technical side. Playing on an iPhone X, I notice slight lag and a fair bit of texture pop-in. Others have reported the pop-in to be considerably worse on older devices, which is perhaps to be expected. Additionally, the textures are nowhere near the fidelity of the PC version, but they are by no means bad – everything looks sharp enough to play effectively, although spotting movement at long distances is … [Read more...] about Fortnite on iOS gives mobile players superpowers but makes them ineffective at range
The SD card and the vintage video game revolution
A conservative estimate puts the value of the entire Neo Geo library of games - all European, US and Japanese variants - at around a quarter of a million dollars. Some of the games are so scarce that they come up for sale only once a decade. In October 2009, for example, an anonymous buyer paid $55,045.64 for the European versions of the fighting game Kizuna Encounter and the football game Ultimate 11 (as if guided by a scriptwriter's pen, the buyer carried a custom-made briefcase to meet the seller, to ensure the games remained pristinely cosy on the flight home). There are, it is estimated, fewer than ten copies of each game in existence. Even for the wealthiest game fanatic, then, there is almost no opportunity to play these games anywhere outside of a PC emulator. All this changed last year when a group of Spanish game enthusiasts released the NeoSD, a cartridge manufactured to look exactly like one of the chunky Neo Geo originals. As the name implies, the device, whose insides … [Read more...] about The SD card and the vintage video game revolution