Slope’s Game Room delivers the goods. They might not be household names today, but once upon a time, the Choplifter and Paperboy brands attracted a lot of attention in the world of gaming. Dan Gorlin’s 1982 title Choplifter was one of the first scrolling shooters to pull together a movie-like story and solid objectives for…
Ho ho holy moly. Christmas is upon us once again, which means that No Gravity Games is back with another generous offer of free Switch games; eleven of them, to be precise. Yes, the company’s ‘Switchmas Giveaway’ is back and will commence on 9th December 2024 at 12am PT, after which it will be giving…
James Howells is someone we’ve reported on a few times in the past. Back in 2013, Howells had a significant collection of 7,500 bitcoin stored on a hard drive. That collection ended up in the trash and subsequently taken to a local landfill. For over 10 years it’s sat somewhere in the midst of that…
The system requirements for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle have just dropped, and in the words of ever-prescient Short Round: “Okey dokey, Dr Jones, hold on to your potatoes!” The requirements follow the recent trend of requiring a metric heap-load of storage space, this time meaning 120 of your finest gigabytes—and do you see…
Fallout: London is truly impressive, and I say that despite the fact my opening hours with it consisted of three parts crashes to one part game. Still, it’s doing a lot better now, and after a few patches the devs reckon one of the most ambitious Fallout modding projects out there should be “solid as…
If there’s one area where AMD’s graphics cards need to improve, it’s ray tracing. Now the latest rumour suggests a big boost in ray tracing performance is exactly what AMD’s next gen RDNA 4 GPUs are going to get. More specifically, it’s claimed by well-established Chiphell forum user zhangzhonghao (via Sweclockers) that the upcoming Radeon…
PauseStation. Those with an appetite for Nintendo history likely will have heard of the ‘SNES PlayStation‘ — a collaboration between Nintendo and Sony which was intended to bring CD-ROM gaming to the former’s latest console. The partnership never materialised, naturally, with Nintendo announcing that it was pivoting to work with Phillips at the very same…
You only have to take one look at our Red Dead Redemption 2 review to see that it’s a slow-burn masterpiece of an RPG that takes immersion in video games to a fantastic level. RDR2 is a great game, no doubt about it. But, you know what would make Red Dead Redemption 2 even better?…
Helldivers 2 really does appear to have won its playerbase’s enthusiasm back, recent snafus with the Democracy Space Station aside. Its recent reviews are now “Overwhelmingly Positive” on Steam, meaning that over 95% of recent reviewers have been left with a good impression while fighting for Super Earth. Now, typically, I wouldn’t put too much…
Lowe worked on Beneath a Steel Sky, Starglider, and ports of Street Fighter II. A bunch of development discs related to the work of the legendary video game musician Dave Lowe (otherwise known as Uncle Art) are currently being preserved online for the very first time. Lowe was a prolific video game composer and musician,…