Starfield design director calls out unfair game criticism: ‘Don’t fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is’

Starfield did not land with quite the positive thump that just about everyone expected, and lots of people have thoughts about why—and that has apparently inspired Starfield design director Emil Pagliarulo to muse about how confident some of those critics are in their opinions, despite how “disconnected” they are from the process of actually making…

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This fan-made HD PC port of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is so cool I can’t believe Nintendo hasn’t taken it down yet

Extremely cool fan project alert: someone, or someones, has released a PC port of Nintendo classic The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX, modernized to run fantastically on modern PCs. It adds widescreen and high framerate support, with a silky smooth camera that lets you explore Link’s Awakening as one large interconnected world instead of…

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This chill Windows 95 relic is more toy than game, but reinstalling it every winter has become one of my favorite holiday rituals

Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Developer: Compile Released: 1997 Format: Windows 95 (Image credit: Compile) I honestly can’t remember exactly when I first decided to give this colourful slice of simian silliness…

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Nintendo Gadgets We Wished Existed – Based On Actual Patents

5 Nintendo Gadgets We Wish Existed, Based on Actual Patents They say that the book is humankind’s greatest invention — durable, navigable, versatile and non-reliant on external power sources or connectivity. Perhaps gaming’s equivalent invention is the deck of cards — be they the familiar 52 poker cards, Top Trumps or any other variation. Nintendo…

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