A perfect storm of long transatlantic flights and being laid up in bed thanks to a bug has given me lots of time to spend with my Steam Deck recently. I have countless games that are perfect for Valve’s handheld, but the cosy familiarity of Skyrim won out, and I’m once again gleefully skipping across…
All thanks to fans! If you’re the type of person who loves checking out obscure Japanese games, then you’ll probably love the following bit of news. Recently, a small team of fan translators and hackers have banded together to bring out a new fan translation patch for Addie’s Present, a little-known (in the West, at…
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Peter Molyneux, the mind behind the original Fable and Theme Park games, whose experiments with blockchain games and other shortcomings around promises made have seen his reputation take a few hits over the years. Perhaps worst of all, this is the man that promised us acorns that…
The Golden Joystick Awards has opened shortlists in three of its most major categories: Ultimate Game of the Year (UGOTY), Best Supporting Performer, and Best Lead Performer—and you can vote on them right now. If you’re wondering why I’m telling you this, it’s because the Golden Joystick awards are run by PC Gamer’s parent company,…
Courtesy of Adam Doree. If you’re a fan of PS2-era open-world crime games like Grand Theft Auto III, Mafia, or Scarface: The World Is Yours, there’s a good chance you’ll have heard of The Getaway. Set in London, Team Soho’s 2002 title paid homage to British gangster films like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels…
Throughout the years we’ve featured many different types of news stories, from gaming updates, to music disks and even scene demos. Well here we are with another eye opening news story I think you’ll like, as if you have an Atari 8bit, then it might be worth checking out the latest updated release of ADoom…
A crash course in ‘Carpetless’. The ‘holy grail’ of Super Mario 64 techniques has recently been perfected by the speedrunning community and it is capable of finally achieving a sub-1:37 time for 120-star runs. The technique in question is all about bypassing the slow carpet ride required to nab the ‘Big House in the Sky’…
Today I witnessed someone’s Skyrim character die in one of the most Monty Pythonesque ways possible: by eating all the food in all the land and bursting like a stuck pig. User amelix34 took to the Skyrim subreddit just the other day to reveal a little experiment they’d been saving up for in the form…
May I have this high-score challenge? 2024 is on the horizon, which means it’s high time for Ubisoft to step onto the dancefloor with its latest Just Dance offering, Just Dance 2024 Edition. If you look back on our review of 2023’s entry, we mentioned that it significantly improved the tried-and-tested formula, boosting the visuals…
Homebrew to the rescue. Versions of Doom, Doom II and Heretic have been shown running on the Atari Jaguar. These homebrew ports are the work of Welshworrier, Rik Day, Lawrence Staveley, Saturn and Matt Smith. Read the full article on timeextension.com Homebrew to the rescue. Versions of Doom, Doom II and Heretic have been shown…