Happy New Year folk, welcome to 2024! Hopefully your holiday season was filled with plenty of good food, festivities, and just the right amount of mandatory family interactions. Is it me, or did 2023 somehow fly by and also feel like the longest year ever? Regardless, we successfully battled our way through the months and…
“No thank you. Mission complete. Game over”. It’s hard to think of WipEout without also thinking about The Designers Republic, the Sheffield-based agency that built the franchise’s look and helped it become one of the trailblazers of the 32-bit era. What you may not realise is that The Designers Republic – which was founded in…
No, not THAT Monty Mole, Mario fans. When we recently reviewed Gremlin Collection 1 on the Evercade, we lamented the fact that it didn’t feature Monty Mole, one of the company’s most famous 8-bit titles. It seems we now know why; someone else owns the IP for the character, and we’re getting a Nintendo Switch-bound…
The Chinese Communist Party—who had taken aim at free-to-play monetisation schemes just before the holidays—softened its stance. This was after “nearly $80 billion in market value” bled from Tencent (League of Legends) and NetEase (Diablo: Immortal). The draft rules intended to target the live service giant’s favourite toys (such as daily login bonuses) while also…
The War Within arrives this year—promising to finally address Battle for Azeroth’s biggest dangling plot thread: the giant bloody sword that’s sticking out of the planet. We know this because of some subtle hints from the expansion’s cinematic trailer, like when the camera pans to the giant bloody sword. The one that’s sticking out of…
We all spent 2023 huddled round a deathbed, waiting for its raving occupant to finally gasp their last so we could get on with the business of finding a suitable heir. But in spite of it all, Twitter staggers on. Barely. That is, it must be said, quite remarkable. Twitter has had what business experts…
Work. Buy. Consume. Die. Founded in the ’80s by Ian Anderson and Nick Phillips, The Designers Republic will be most famous to gamers for its amazing branding and iconography work on the WipEout series, but, as a design agency, its influence and impact goes way beyond that franchise. The 512-page A To Z Of The…
“Think Scream versus I Know What You Did Last Summer”. Back in 2015, Supermassive Games and Sony Computer Entertainment released Until Dawn for the PS4 — a third-person survival horror game about a group of 8 young adults visiting a remote ski lodge on Blackwood Mountain and having to survive the night. The game was…
Category: Xbox Game PassJanuary 3, 2024 Coming to Xbox Game Pass: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Resident Evil 2, Hell Let Loose, and More Megan Spurr, Community Lead, Xbox Game Pass Happy 2024! We hope your new year’s celebration was full of fun and games and that you have even more in store in the days to…
The game was being developed by Pseudo Interactive. CombyLaurent — a French video game preservationist whose work we’ve covered in the past — has recently announced that they have managed to archive 11 prototypes of a cancelled Vectorman PS2 game that would have seen the Sega character make the jump to 3D. That’s in addition…