Roar-some 64-bit power. As one of the leading names in the video game industry, it’s easy to see why so many people expected big things from Atari and its 64-bit Jaguar console when the first news reports emerged in the early ’90s. Released when the 16-bit era was just still in full swing, this powerful…
“I’m deeply honored and humbled to be a part of this amazing project”. The MARS FPGA project has added another big name to its ranks: RetroTINK Creator Mike Chi. “Since launching the RetroTINK-2X in 2018, Mike Chi has revolutionized how we play our classic gaming hardware on modern displays,” says the official MARS FPGA Twitter…
The original Chaos Engine was an incredible game released in 1993, and developed by the very famous Bitmap Brothers. It was a well known title that at its core, was for the Amiga in which one or two players battled in a top down shooter genre against the evil creations of the titular Chaos Engine….
“Unemployed man” Hideki Kamiya continues to update his YouTube channel in the wake of his departure from Platinum, keeping the world at large updated on what he’s been cooking, his opinions on onsen, and the last time he visited an aquarium. All of which is a treat, but Kamiya has been chatting about a few…
November is a time for looking back at the past, whether that’s through Bonfire Night, Thanksgiving, or in a more recent tradition, randomly patching up old-ass games. Last week, Valve were patching decades-old bugs in Half-Life as part of the game’s 25’th anniversary celebrations. Now Star Wars: Empire at War is getting 64-bit support, 17…
Integrity Gone Bye. There’s a moment during a particularly grueling fourth-season episode of The Walking Dead in which our protagonist, Rick Grimes, is appealing to the humanity of a man holding a samurai sword against a kind, gentle farmer’s throat. Getting more desperate by the second, he says “We can still come back, we’re not…
That’s a good boy. This new double pack for Evercade has a distinctly Nintendo-like feel to it, and that’s not only because the two titles – Goodboy Galaxy and Witch n’ Wiz – were originally designed to run on Game Boy Advance and NES, respectively. Goodboy Galaxy is arguably the highlight of the pair. Crowdfunded…
“Something about ruining the Rockstar mystique”. An ex-Rockstar North employee has removed several blogs detailing the development of games such as Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City, and the cancelled spy game Agent after the studio itself submitted a written complaint via email (thanks, Time Extension). In a series of posts dubbed ‘Inside Rockstar North’,…
Playmaji gives an update on stock, N64 module, and more. Polymega maker Playmaji has released an update on the production of the console, expanding on its recent promise that all outstanding pre-orders would ship by the end of the year. The bad news is that the process of fulfilling all of these orders is going…
Getting Operator Assault Kills in Modern Warfare 3 is a new—and confusing—challenge that arrives with week three of the game. There’s no description provided with your task, so you’re left to puzzle out what it could mean; “do I have to kill other players with assault rifles?” for example. And since weekly challenges are a…