Awesome Games Done Quick 2024 is already a delight—and not just because it’s already raised over $1 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. In a recent speedrun of Doom (2016), Hugo Martin, the game’s creative director, decided to make an appearance as a guest commentator. During the speedrun, the BFG 9000 came up—BFG stands for…
Last week, we asked you to travel back to the shores of Valhalla to face Kratos’ past in God of War Ragnarök using #PSshare #PSBlog. Here are this week’s highlights: Dadavidtd shares Kratos swinging the Blade of Olympus at a cyclops luucas_saantana shares Helios hanging from Kratos’ belt sorathluna shares Kratos swinging the Blades of…
Stealth mission. In the magazine business, the Back Page is where you’d find all the weird goofs that we couldn’t fit in anywhere else. Some may call it “filler”; we prefer “a whole page to make terrible jokes that are tangentially related to the content of the mag”. We don’t have pages on the internet,…
The United Kingdom’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has unveiled further details about Colossus, often referred to as “the first ever digital computer”, for its 80th birthday. A machine which—as this obituary to an MI5 chief scientific officer who helped rebuild it states—could “read Hitler’s mind”. OK—we didn’t have psychic powers in the 1940s, but Colossus…
The Pokémon-with-guns-and-abusive-labor-practices game Palworld is off to a roaring early access launch on Steam, racking up 370,000 concurrent users (and counting) in its first day of release. That’s proving to be a bit of a problem for the game’s servers, which are buckling under the stream, but developer Pocketpair says it’s working on the problem,…
When it comes to trying to experience everything a sprawling hundred-hour RPG has to offer, New Game+ can often be an essential tool for running through a game a second or third time without causing too much psychological damage. Some games, like the Persona series, even require a NG+ run if you want the full…
Double the screens, double the fun. When Nintendo announced the DS in the mid-2000s, it claimed the device would be a ‘third pillar’ alongside its GameCube home console and its Game Boy family of portables. This admission alone shows just how leftfield the dual-screen handheld was; even its creator wasn’t sure that the general public…
Er, wow. Modder TheZZAZZGlitch has discovered that it’s possible to dump and recreate a GBA ROM by crashing the game and recording the sound that plays after an hour and a half. While that makes it sound like an easy process, actually getting the ROM recreated and working took TheZZAZZGlitch quite a lot of time…
Update ahoy! Nintendo is in the habit of updating Splatoon 3‘s battle stages every now and then. Why wouldn’t it be? However, Splatoon is a series drenched in lore, so whenever a stage is suddenly missing from the daily rotation, there has to be a reason for it. And so, once again, we are going…
20 games! Piko Interactive is a company which specialises in acquiring and re-releasing old games from publishers who have either gone bust or have sold off their back catalogues, and it has been involved in resurrecting a multitude of games across a wide range of formats. Piko Interactive Collection 1 is a collection for Evercade…