The first-ever live-action adaptation of a video game? Preservationist Haruko Please has discovered a television drama based on the Famicom Disc System game Nazo no Murasamejou / The Mysterious Murasame Castle, and has uploaded it to YouTube. Produced by Fuji Television as a part of its Monday night one-shot drama series Getsuyou Drama Land, the…
Why I Love This article first appeared in PC Gamer magazine issue 387 in August 2023, as part of our Why I Love series. Every month we talk about our favourite characters, mechanics, moments, and concepts in games—and explain why we adore them so much. There’s an art to good videogame cannon fodder. Your classic…
In a recent conversation with Ryan Patel on HP’s “The Moment” YouTube series, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed a number of personal revelations, including that he thinks Jackie Chan would be best suited to play him in a film about himself. “He looks just like me” he reveals, “But I would do my own stunts…I’ll…
There’s lots happening this month… Evercade maker Blaze has some good news – it’s been able to bring forward the release of its final cartridges of 2023. The dual-cart releases Goodboy Galaxy / Witch n’ Wiz and Demons of Asteborg / Astebros will now launch on November 28th, 2023 – well in time for Christmas….
PSCD Games is now selling the carts directly on its website. Update : The Kickstarter for the Mega Drive/Genesis port of Hunter Girls has been cancelled and is now issuing refunds, due to what the publisher has called in a statement “unforeseen circumstances” The Mega Drive/Genesis carts had already been produced and were expected to…
Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson has launched legal action against an AI app that used her name and an AI likeness in an online advert, needless to say without permission. This is particularly ironic given that one of Johansson’s most memorable roles was in the excellent 2013 film Her, where she voices an AI virtual assistant…
Mario Movie and other projects lend a hand. Nintendo has today published its financial report for Q2 FY2024 and it looks like things have been going really rather well. On top of some meaty sales figures for the likes of Tears of the Kingdom, Pikmin 4 and the Switch console itself, the report finds that…
The Cosmos was announced at the Winter CES in 1981. Earlier this year, we told you about the YouTuber and creator Retro Relik’s who created his own mini version of the Atari Lynx. Well, as spotted by Ericlegeek84, it appears the YouTuber is at it once again, this time turning his attention to creating a…
A technical analysis of the graphics rendering in Cities: Skylines 2 has identified the reason why the performance is just so poor. Put simply, the game is trying to draw the cityscapes using a shocking number of polygons, with few systems in place to reduce the amount when it’s not needed. It’s not something that…
Almost 20 million units sold. Nintendo has announced that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has now sold 19.50 million units, just shy of that 20 million milestone. Launched on May 12th, 2023, the game has now effectively sold nearly two-thirds of what Breath of the Wild has managed in the space of…