Titan Books has revealed The Art of Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, the latest in its long-running series of gaming-themed art books (preorders are also live now at Amazon). This volume offers ...

One of the most frustrating aspects of modern PC gaming is how long you can be stuck waiting for a new game to finish compiling its shaders the first time you boot it up. The second most frustrating ...

TL;DR: PC gamers have likely noticed frequent stuttering or lengthy shader-compilation loading screens in many titles over the past few years. Microsoft unveiled a potential solution to the problem ...

While Evanston saw multiple bar closures this year, one spot remains a local favorite. Taking home Best of Evanston’s Best Bar title for the first time is Sketchbook Brewing Co., a taproom and brewery ...

Capcom has released the Pragmata ‘sketchbook’ demo for PS5, Nintendo Switch 2, and Xbox Series X/S, having previously been made available on PC. The demo has players transported to a lunar research ...

The “Sketchbook” demo for hacking action adventure game PRAGMATA is now available for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and Switch 2, Capcom announced. It was previously only available for PC. Here is an ...

KIM. THEY SAY THEY WERE KIND OF CAUGHT OFF GUARD. YEAH. EMPLOYEES SAY THAT THEY KNOW BUSINESS WAS SLOW, BUT THEY CHALKED IT UP TO THE WEATHER OR THE WINTER SLUMP. THEY HAD NO IDEA THEY’D BE OUT OF A ...

When we think of the world’s oldest art, Europe usually comes to mind, with famous cave paintings in France and Spain often seen as evidence this was the birthplace of symbolic human culture. But new ...

Scientists have identified the world's oldest known rock art — a hand stencil created at least 67,800 years ago in Indonesia. Paleolithic humans invented an 'early predecessor to writing' at least ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to Australia. Shinatria Adhityatama examines cave art in one of the caves of ...

In August, a retrospective of work by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood, the collaborators behind Radiohead’s iconic visuals for more than thirty years, opened at the Ashmolean Museum, in England. When I ...

Two hundred and fifty years after his birth, Joseph Mallord William Turner remains an “enigma”, said James Jackson in The Times: “a grunting curmudgeon, an establishment outsider, a visitor of ...