“We REALLY need CPU replacements soon”. We all know that vintage hardware won’t last forever; ageing components eventually give up the ghost, and with each passing year, the pool of ‘working’ systems gets smaller and smaller – unless, of course, the community is able to create replacement parts to repair them and keep them running….
“The most complete and advanced version”. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is one of the jewels of the PlayStation catalogue. Released in 1997, it took the core gameplay of the Castlevania series and skillfully combined it with the non-linear exploration of Super Metroid while adding RPG elements such as experience points and equipment. The end…
Season Pass roadmap also revealed. The Koei Tecmo-published action role-playing game Fate/Samurai Remnant will be getting “DLC Vol. 1” next month in February 2024. It’s officially titled ‘Records Fragment: Keian Command Championship‘ and will be followed by two more DLC episodes later on in 2024. You can check out a teaser trailer of the first…
Turn your daily Wordle into a guaranteed win with our help. Give your early guesses some guidance with a fresh clue written just for today’s game, find inspiration in our general advice, or go straight for the answer to the January 2 (927) puzzle if you need it. I knew I had enough clues to…
Here are the top 20 picks. Everyone has a favourite Pokémon and recently in Japan, the strategy guide website ‘GameWith’ ran a poll asking trainers to vote for their top Pokémon from Scarlet and Violet‘s Paldea region. “Close to 152,700 people” apparently put their vote in and in the end, the new-generation grass/dark-type evolution Meowscarada…
Unfortunately, it was too “hard to control”. Super Mario Bros. Wonder contains all sorts of hidden secrets and surprises, but there were also a lot of ideas left on the cutting room floor. As highlighted by producer Takashi Tezuka during a chat with Famitsu last week, there was a point during the game’s development when…
Metagross was also added recently. To bring in the New Year, the free-to-play mobile and Switch MOBA Pokémon Unite has announced it will be adding Magikarp and Gyarados to the game. They’ll be arriving later this month on 25th January 2024. Just like in the main series, Magikarp will come loaded with “Splash” and once…
His focus is on Nintendo’s future. Japanese video game creator Shigeru Miyamoto isn’t getting any younger, so what exactly are his plans regarding retirement? The Guardian recently asked the Nintendo legend if he was “ever tempted” to call time on his outstanding career and although he’s been at the company since its arcade era, he’s…
A wild adventure of tropical typhoons, insane litigation, and fish testicles. Ten years ago, I was given the great privilege of living in Japan for three months to interview a diverse and eclectic range of game developers. This would produce three volumes in the The Untold History of Japanese Game Developers series (plus a DVD)….
“No one in the team expected such a warm reception”. Whatever your opinion might be on fast food outlet McDonald’s, it has been allied with some surprisingly decent video game crossovers over the years. Global Gladiators on the Genesis / Mega Drive was a fun time (and boasted a wonderful Tommy Tallarico soundtrack), and while…