There are few gaming accomplishments more satisfying than the thrill of pulling off kills in stealth action games. The sweetest of feats can be achievements or timed runs or trick shots but there’s something extra special about a grudge kill. Shadow of Mordor, the Warner Bros. action game of 2014, was a factory for satisfying…
Nick Evanson, Hardware writer (Image credit: Nicholas Evanson) This month I’ve been benchmarking: Endless benchmarking. Hours upon hours, run after run. All in the name of seeing exactly one game performs on a range of different PCs. And I’d do it all again in a flash, as I adore benchmarking. Yes, I am a little…
Fool Mii once… April Fools’ Day on Easter Monday? Is this a crossover episode? A crossover this is not, though that hasn’t stopped many from crossing over into the realm of world-class comedy for a giggle on 1st April. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
“We will provide comfortable times and places and create new experiential value”. Sega Sammy has completed the restructuring of its arcade and toys business under a single banner, and has announced the birth of a new corporation named “Sega Fave”. The restructuring was first revealed back in January, with Yukio Sugino named as the president…
April Fools’ day’s carousel of nonsense hasn’t been slowed by its head-on collision with Easter this year, with multiple spoof announcements from the games industry leaking through Monday’s chocolatey outer shell. One particularly elaborate gag has captured the imagination of the Arma Reforger community, with developer Bohemia Interactive surprise “announcing” a new game mode where…
Kenny or not. We’re back with another look at the latest UK boxed charts and things are still looking a little unsettled after the arrival of last week’s newbies. On the Nintendo front, Princess Peach: Showtime! is still standing firm in the top ten, dropping only one place from last week thanks to the arrival…
Infamous racer ‘Spirit of Speed 1937’ finally goes online. Fans within the Dreamcast community have brought a lot of old multiplayer games back online over the years, but one title that most people never expected to be able to play online was Broadsword Interactive’s 2000 Dreamcast port of Spirit of Speed 1937. This is not…
Stay in your Alain. We loved Vanillaware’s stunning tactical RPG Unicorn Overlord when it marched onto Switch last month and it looks like quite a few others did too as Atlus has announced that the game has now sold over 500,000 copies worldwide. Revealed in an updated accolades trailer (only available in Japanese, for the…
New arenas! New weapons! And an all-new season mode! If you’re a fan of professional wrestling, you’ve probably come across the name ECW (or “Extreme Championship Wrestling”) in the past. The Philadelphia-based promotion was notorious in the ’90s and early 2000s for its hardcore style of wrestling, featuring everything from no-rope-barbed-wire matches to flaming table…
“The whole purpose of these things is to be enjoyed”. The UK-based retro collector Frazer Rhodes has been buying rare and obscure video games for the past three decades now and has amassed a pretty enviable collection in all that time. He’s the proud owner of a complete Neo Geo set, as well as a…