Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us Part 2 recently received an all-singing all-dancing remaster for PlayStation 5, which was both something of a surprise (the game was only released in 2020) and managed to over-deliver with a slew of new modes, cut content, creator commentary, and of course native 4K. Sony hasn’t yet announced whether…
“I overruled because this was much funnier”. While Rare is best known for creating the likes of Donkey Kong Country, GoldenEye 007 and Sea Of Thieves, it has some lessor-known titles in its library – one of which is the 2004 GBA puzzler It’s Mr. Pants. Conceived by Tim Stamper and Gregg Mayles and designed…
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor has scooped this year’s Grammy for best video game soundtrack making it the second game to receive the award since its inauguration last year. Specifically given for “Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive media”, the award was won by Stephen Barton and Gordy Haab, for their work writing…
The sails on the CPU rumour mill are really churning at the moment, with reports that AMD’s successor to its Zen 4 chip design will be launched this year. New processors also means new motherboards and it’s being reported that the top-of-the-line X870E chipset will go one better than the current X670E by offering full…
Thanks to VGEsoterica & Andy Geezer. VideoGameEsoterica has done it again! Less than a year after they successfully managed to preserve Castlevania: The Arcade Game and a month after they rescued Konami’s Gashaaaan!, the YouTuber is back with another set of videos focusing on their efforts to save another rare piece of arcade history. Akuma…
The finest X68000 exclusives in one pack. Though the Sharp X68000 is rightly known for its exceptional arcade ports, the cult Japanese computer also had its fair share of homegrown exclusives that made the system sing. Perhaps most important among these was the work of Exact (Excellent Application Create Team), who lovingly produced four exceptional…
Early game dolla. Remember back in the early days of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom when money-making glitches ran rampant across Hyrule? Ah, simpler times. Of course, a lot of these were patched shortly after they were discovered, but it was only going to be a matter of time before a new…
While Like A Dragon’s wealth tumbles. In the UK this week, two new releases took the top 2 spots in the charts, with Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League coming in at number 1, and Persona 3 Reload taking the silver medal. Suicide Squad’s triumph might be somewhat surprising given the relatively mixed critical reception,…
Overcooked in Space? Absurd couch co-op party game Servonauts is heading to Steam later this year, but we can exclusively reveal that the MAXART Games’ title will also be heading to the Nintendo Switch as a console exclusive. There’s no firm release date in place at the moment, but the game is basically ‘Overcooked in…
Well, that kind of snuck up didn’t it. Nvidia has quietly launched the RTX 3050 6GB. At a glance it’s an unexciting and slower version of a graphics card that’s been on the market for nearly three years. According to benchmarks from a retail card purchased by Computer Base, it loses just over 20% to…