First time the original arcade version has been available in the home. Just before Christmas, it was announced that Sega was teaming up with retro hardware maker My Arcade to produce a series of mini-arcade systems, and we now have more details on one of those systems. My Arcade has been demonstrating some of its…
Long live the Empire. Welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl, folks! Last week, we took a look at Crash Nitro Kart for the GameCube, a sequel to Crash Team Racing that never quite managed to step out of its predecessor’s shadow. North America sealed the deal this time with 53% of the vote,…
Instead we got Switch Online’s retro subscription tiers. Before Nintendo’s subscription service took off, fans were able to individually buy and download first-party retro titles and play them whenever they wanted thanks to the Virtual Console service. Although this was eventually replaced with Switch Online’s tier-based retro library, Nintendo apparently had plans to carry over…
It’s Sunday, so why not put your feet up, give your mind a bit of a break, and let us help you solve today’s Wordle. Skip straight to the January 12 (1303) answer if you’re in the mood for an easy win, or if you’re happier taking the long way around use today’s hint and…
The official release takes place next week. Ahead of the launch of Donkey Kong Country Returns HD for Switch next week, some players have supposedly already “got their hands on” physical copies of the game. This was highlighted by ‘Nintendeal’ on social media, which also notes how pre-orders for the game have now sold out…
The 2025 edition of charity fundraising speedrun event Awesome Games Done Quick has been running for the last week, featuring such wonderfully absurd runs as an Elden Ring saxophone-controller boss showcase and a Crazy Taxi speedrun performed with a live band. As a Fallout sicko, I was pleased to see Tomatoangus (also known as Tomatoanus)…
As reported by IGN, Call of Duty YouTuber TheXclusiveAce has outlined a process to access all the match-by-match data Activision has collected on you dating back to 2021’s Call of Duty Vanguard. This data includes a score used for CoD’s skill-based matchmaking or SBMM, the behind-the-scenes system by which players are paired with others of…
Need something real depressing to go with your seasonal affective disorder, northern hemisphere friends? Well, have I got a game for you! Endless Dark is “an existential horror game in which you are tasked with keeping a sleeper colony ship intact. No enemies or NPCs share the ship with you – only creaking metal echoes…
Firaxis has announced that Civilization 7 has been verified for Steam Deck ahead of its launch on February 11. This will be the first entry in the series to get the full green checkmark seal of approval on Valve’s popular Linux-based handheld. Civilizations 5 and 6 are both playable, but with caveats on Steam Deck:…
I am an absolute freak for BioWare’s 2002 D&D RPG Neverwinter Nights, and somehow this unkillable game just keeps chugging along: Beamdog just put out a new, official update for its 2018 enhanced edition re-release that was assembled by members of Neverwinter Nights’ still-active mod scene—if that sounds familiar to you, this isn’t the first…