New Retro Game Mechanics video explores SMB 3’s bonus games. If you’ve ever played Super Mario Bros. 3, you may remember its frustrating sliding puzzle, where you are tasked with matching three moving tiles in order to create a Star, Mushroom, or Fire Flower for the chance to win a set of bonus lives. While…
Gaming allows us to experience worlds beyond imagination, share our stories and forge friendships with people across the world. At Xbox we believe that gaming is for everyone, including the over 429 million players with disabilities, and it is our responsibility to create a place where everyone feels welcome, safe, and included to experience the…
Using a Diablo 4 world boss loot table is the quickest and easiest way to work out what Unique items each of the newly introduced big bads drop. There are four new bosses being added alongside the Season of Blood and each of them has a loot table for possible Unique items they can drop….
The golden age of cheap memory and SSDs has been good to us all, but like all good things, it was never destined to last. At least not according to Techspot, which has reported that, due to forthcoming production cuts, the industry is likely to see an upswing in consumer prices towards the end of…
“End of story”. In case you missed it, our pals over at Time Extension recently covered Analogue’s next big retro venture: an FPGA-based N64 console with 4K output called the ‘Analogue 3D’. Now, in an extended interview from Paste Magazine (thanks, VGC), Analogue’s CEO Christopher Taber has claimed that not even Nintendo could match up…
SpiderHeck is a fast-paced, couch co-op brawler, where spiders dance to the death in the grip of chaotic battles using laser swords, grenades, and even rocket launchers to defeat their foes. Spiders with Laser Swords! Your crazy showdown with friends will become even crazier with the release of an update for SpiderHeck, which will introduce…
As spotted by GamesRadar, the Steamworks Development channel posted a video earlier this month explaining the ins and outs of how games snowball into surprise hits like Dave the Diver—which we gave a smashing 91 back in July. The talk’s given by Erik Peterson of Steam’s business team, and it’s an enlightening little journey through…
The roleplay community in Final Fantasy 14 is, simply put, an ocean. It’s absolutely massive, comprising several servers, hundreds of night clubs, bars, fight pits, free companies, and homegrown drama. It’s big enough that last year, someone thought buying four billboards in California and Texas to advertise their virtual nightclub was a good idea (it…
It is common knowledge that arms manufacturers and the videogames industry have partnerships and sponsorship deals, with series like Call of Duty sometimes even including gunmakers like Colt in their credits. But we almost never get a glimpse at what these deals involve, both in terms of the finances and the thinking behind marketing real…
Courtesy of the modder 1VieRock. While Konami has been hard at work remastering Suikoden I & II for Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and Windows, it appears that one dedicated fan of the series has also been busy giving Suikoden III a bit of care and attention too, in the form of a new HD…