May 2, 2024

You can now see the true origins of the popular match-three game. Almost 35 years after it was originally made, the first-ever version of the popular match-three puzzle game Columns has finally been found and documented online. Most people will probably know of Columns from Sega’s versions of the game — which have since been…

The site was started all the way back in 1999. The lost-media/games preservation website Games That Weren’t is currently celebrating 25 years since its initial formation. Inspired by Ian Osborne’s Commodore Force article “That Was The Game That Wasn’t”, Frank Gasking first started the project as a column in Commodore Zone magazine back in the…

About This Episode We head to the movies to see Jason Statham’s latest film where he’s a one-man vengeance machine, check out some innovative and entertaining tech designed to be used in the shower, and play a brand new game that evolves the classic, Pong, into a methodical action adventure! Patreon » patreon.com/genxgrownup Discord »…

Coming to PC via Steam in 2025. The SSX games are always appearing on lists of games that players want to see make a return, which makes it all the more confusing that EA hasn’t really done anything with the classic snowboarding series since its 2012 reboot. In the past, a group of former EA…

Coming to the PC. A new fanmade remake of the 1994 Game Boy title Mega Man V is currently in development for the PC. Mega Man: The Rulers of Space, as the project is called, is being built in Unreal Engine and aims to transform the classic handheld title into a 16-bit style game containing…

Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata worked on both. When you’re talking about all-time classic video game soundtracks, Metal Orange EX (X68000) and Chip-Chan Kick (PC-FX) might not seem like obvious candidates for a vinyl re-release, but these two games have been trust into the limelight thanks to a frankly bizarre legal battle over their ownership….

The game was originally launched in 1989. The PC-88 Action RPG Ys III: Wanderers From Ys is being released on Nintendo Switch on May 9th, as part of D4 Enterprise’s EGGCONSOLE series of classic reissues (thanks Gosokkyu!). Originally released in 1989, the game represents a notable departure from the earlier two titles in the series,…

“The quality of the CD-Rs are so bad you can see through them”. Boutique publisher Limited Run Games has been accused of sending out CD-R discs in its premium edition 3DO titles. Customers who have recently received 3DO games from the company have claimed that the discs aren’t professionally pressed as one would expect from…