The a-cho amusement arcade in Kyoto closes later this month. At the end of last year, it was announced that the legendary a-cho amusement arcade in Kyoto would be closing its doors on January 31st, 2025, marking another devastating blow for the Japanese arcade scene, which has been struggling following the impact of the COVID-19…
Category: Announcements January 6, 2025 New Year, New Rewards with Xbox Jesse JanosovGM Business Intelligence and Growth Rewards with Xbox are our way of, well, rewarding you for your love of gaming, and today we’re thrilled to announce new ways for players to earn points. From expanding Quests to PC Game Pass, to reimagining the…
“I’m loving working on games again”. Minecraft creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson has “basically announced” a spiritual successor to the exceptionally popular sandbox game after issuing a poll on social media. The developer asked his audience what they would like him to focus on in 2025, with the options being a traditional roguelike mixed with a…
It’s finally over. Keiji Inafune’s Mighty No. 9 was supposed to be a spiritual successor to Mega Man and raised over $4 million in crowdfunding way back in 2013. However, the finished game was a crushing disappointment, and while it was launched across a wide range of systems, the Nintendo 3DS and PS Vita versions…
Uses assets from the delisted iOS version. The Neo Geo is getting a port of the original 1987 Double Dragon, thanks to neocvera. Dubbed Double Dragon One, the port uses assets from the delisted iOS version of Technōs’ seminal belt-scrolling fighter. Read the full article on timeextension.com Uses assets from the delisted iOS version. The…
Title deals with dark, mature themes. One of the biggest surprises of 2024 was undoubtedly the release (and accompanying marketing campaign) of Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club. It marked the first proper new entry in the Famicom Detective Club franchise since 1989, bringing with it a whole bunch of dark, mature themes…
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Doomguy has been everywhere. He’s been to Mars, he’s been to Hell, he’s been to Thatcher’s England. But what’s he do between monster-murder sprees? He pops down to a museum opening to better himself. In Doom: The Gallery Experience, you walk around a rejigged E1M1 with a cheeky glass of red in hand looking at…
Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games: Freebie festBest FPS games: Finest gunplayBest MMOs: Massive worldsBest RPGs: Grand adventures On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be…
If you’ve played SpaceChem, Infinifactory, Opus Magnum, or any of the other engineering puzzles of Zachtronics you’ll be familiar with the Zach-like subgenre—visual programming games where you build a system to turn input into output, every level a lesson in learning the tools, and then realizing there are multiple ways to achieve your goal with…