Last month Unity, one of the biggest game engines, tried to push out a massively controversial change to the way it does business. Namely a retroactive fee taken from devs for every install of a game—no matter how that install happened. Putting your game up on Game Pass or Humble Bundle? Doesn’t matter, Unity wanted…
Ah, Microsoft Edge. When the topic of which browser to use rears its ugly head, the room tends to quickly devolve into two main camps: Chrome or Firefox, with an occasional incursion from a group of Safari enthusiasts in the corner. However, when the debate dies down and there’s a lull in the conversation, a…
Konami has fixed one of the more glaring issues with the Master Collection version of Metal Gear Solid 1. When the game hit Steam three days ago, players were supposed to be able to download different language packs—Japanese, US English and what-have-you—via the game’s launcher. Unfortunately, the relevant Steam pages were inexplicably AWOL, making international…
There’s good news for Intel, as it has beaten expectations with its latest financial forecasts. Perhaps that’s why CEO Pat Gelisinger is so bullish about the threat from a new generation of Arm chips. During an earnings call with investors, Gelsinger dismissed the threat to Intel’s traditional x86 CPUs from a new generation of Arm…
All the N64 games, ranked by you. Updated with Mario Party 3. Remember, this is a dynamic, real-time ranking of every available N64 game playable as part of a Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscription. You can add (or maybe even reevaluate) your User Ratings for every game you’ve played at any time, even after…
Great Scott! After being teased last month, FuturLab and Square Enix have now given us a little more information on the upcoming team-up between PowerWash Simulator and Back to the Future, confirming that the DLC will be heading our way on 16th November — not too big of a time jump, then. This DLC pack…
Iron Lung has just had a major update that includes a ‘Markiplier mode’. This indie horror game grew in popularity after the YouTuber did a full playthrough last year that gained over 8 million views, and he enjoyed it so much that he is currently directing and starring in an Iron Lung film adaptation. The…
With more classics on the way. Two classic PC-88 games — Thexder and Relics — have arrived this month on the Nintendo Switch eShop, via D4 Enterprise and Project EGG. In the past, the Tokyo-based publisher D4 Enterprise has reissued a number of classic games for old Japanese computers like the MSX, PC-88, and PC-98…
At the launch of the RTX 20-series, Nvidia promised “Graphics Reinvented“. That was five years ago, and you could point to various graphical options in games since that were simply not possible before ray tracing acceleration and upscaling came to be. Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty springs to mind. Yet Alan Wake 2 feels a much…
Prime cut. Retro specialist Mega Cat Studios has announced The Meating, a brand new NES title that’s heading to Kickstarter today. With a projected release in Q1 2024, The Meating features puzzle-platforming gameplay across over 40 unique stages. You’ll play as a ‘ghost minotaur’, whose mission is to ‘to put his meat back together’ and…