Mode 7 High Resolution

Written by Shane on April 16, 2019. Posted in Front Page

Original resolution on the left, 4x resolution on the right. Reddit user DerKoun has posted their mod of bsnes which allows for mode 7 internal resolution increases up to 4 times their original resolution. Mode 7, for those who don’t know, is background layer mode which allows the layer to be scaled and rotated on a scanline-by-scanline basis to achieve a faux 3D effect. This is notably used in games like Super Mario Kart and F-Zero among many other titles. Another Reddit user, jediyoshi, also made a side-by-side comparison video of Pilotwings running in its native resolution and increased resolution….

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Game Off 2018 – Hard Mode

Written by Sharkis on November 6, 2018. Posted in Dev, Front Page

from the probably-going-to-fail-to-follow-through department It’s here. And has been, for 6 days. The GitHub Game Off kicked off with the theme of “Hybrid,” and we’re entered! Stay tuned for dev updates, vague screenshots, pictures of monitors with code on them, and copious empty caffeine receptacles! My (very rough) idea of a hybrid game is one I’ve been carrying around for a while. A golf game with combat-style antagonistic features. You’ll see. Do you have any ideas? Comment below! Development update, 20 November: We have installed Unity and run through the tutorials. Looks like my recent retraining on C-family languages is…

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Weekend Stories, Part 1

Written by Sharkis on May 29, 2018. Posted in Front Page

I was at a bar with friends, having a pint and talking nonsense. The music in the bar was mostly 70’s era music, with The Animals, Queen, Led Zeppelin, etc. coming in over the speaker. My friends and I were talking to the bartender about an upcoming music festival (Neon Desert), when the bartender said she didn’t really like the music they were featuring. We asked her what she listened to, and she struggled to get any words out. A friend of mine volunteered “hippie” and the bartender emphatically agreed. So I thought she was the one that put the…

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Gaming, Toxicity, and Survival Shooters

Written by Axel on May 21, 2018. Posted in Front Page

For any younger gamer these days, many a gamer their senior, myself included will tell tales of a bygone era when fatal headshots garnered a well deserved “Good one” from the victim as they awaited respawn, teabagging and killcams had yet to be invented, and most importantly, that much vaunted combination of RPG, FPS and MMO was but a glimmer in the eye of possibility, oft speculated upon by laymen, but never so much as attempted with the now aged and frail network infrastructures and anemic computing power of yore. Some of this is simply horseshit. But for anyone who…

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Obligatory Meltdown and Spectre post.

Written by Shane on January 4, 2018. Posted in Front Page

Okay. Let me clarify a couple of things here. First of all, Meltdown and Spectre ARE real, so this isn’t some doomsday viral post. That said, it’s mostly a problem for virtualisation and enterprise networks (which is my job, so it’s a legitimate concern for me). A Linux kernel update has already been released to resolve the issue. The performance drop is ESTIMATED to be between 5%-29% (it’s not concrete yet). Microsoft are aiming to put out an update to patch it on January 9th. Even if a performance hit arises due to the patch, they do have a goal…

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Titan V Announcement

Written by Shane on December 8, 2017. Posted in Front Page

NVIDIA have announced the new flagship Titan V touting an NVIDIA Volta GPU and 12 GB of HBM2. All this can be yours for the low, low price of $2999.99. So hop on it and get your SLI game on. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/titan/titan-v/

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Mega Man 11 and X Collection announced.

Written by Shane on December 4, 2017. Posted in Front Page

There has been an announcement on Mega Man’s official twitter for the release of not only Mega Man 11, but also Mega Man X-X8 for the Switch, Xbone, PS4, and PC. You can scope the tweets here: Get equipped with Mega Man 11, coming to Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC in Late 2018! Watch the #MegaMan30 livestream at https://t.co/qn8POJ2KIj! pic.twitter.com/wpz3x4rybj — Mega Man (@MegaMan) December 4, 2017 All 8 Mega Man X games are coming to Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC! Tune in at https://t.co/qn8POJ2KIj for more details! pic.twitter.com/dAHMD7w5rb — Mega Man (@MegaMan) December 4, 2017

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Games We’re Playing, June 2017 Edition

Written by Sharkis on June 13, 2017. Posted in Front Page, Reviews

What we’re playing: RimWorld, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Wargame: Red Dragon Games we wish we could play (cause we paid for them and can’t run them well enough to enjoy): Astroneer, Space Engineers Summary: I feel like I’ve been caught in the casual gaming web. RimWorld’s visuals and soundtrack make it seem like it’s something I could have on in the background, but this is definitely not the case. From my playthroughs, it requires a LOT of attention. The concept of the storyteller is great, I really feel like it lets me have enough breathing room to learn about the game…

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Intel i9 Confirmed.

Written by Shane on May 15, 2017. Posted in Front Page

The new Core i9 range based on Skylake-X was leaked last week. Now some benchmarks have also been leaked. While these don’t show much yet, they do confirm the i9 line. In this leak, we also learned of the new Kaby Lake-X i7 line. Core i7-7740K: 4C/8T, 4.3GHz to 4.5GHz, 8MB cache, 112W, 16 PCIe lanes Core i7-7640K: 4C/4T, 4GHz to 4.2GHz, 6MB cache, 112W, 16 PCIe lanes Core i9-7920X: 12C/24T, unknown clocks, 16.5MB cache, 140W, 44 PCIe lanes Core i9-7900X: 10C/20T, 3.3GHz to 4.3GHz, 13.75MB cache, 140W, 44 PCIe lanes Core i9-7820X: 8C/16T, 3.6GHz to 4.3GHz, 11MB cache, 140W,…

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