From inception to launch. Balatro developer LocalThunk has released a complete timeline of the game’s development, from its inception in 2021 to its eventual launch on 20th February 2024. You can read the whole thing on LocalThunk’s website, but the developer states that the intention behind the post was due to “constantly forgetting major moments…
We’ve now seen the launch of the hotly anticipated new lineup of graphics cards from AMD with both the new 9070 series hitting shelves. So far, the brand new AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 cards have made an impressive show, and both are even coming in at an enticing MSRP, mostly. All…
During 2019 Psytronik Software released(link) a C64 game by Megastyle called ‘ Mancave ‘; a game which follows the hilarious adventures of Richard Morningwood who has the unfortunate task of gathering up the pages of some rather naughty magazines that have been nabbed from his secret stash by his pesky kids. Well if you were…
No doomscrolling here. Mainframes presents an intriguing premise: What if your PC desktop was its own game world? Taking on the role of a cute, anthropomorphic floppy disk called, uh, Floppy, you set off on a journey through multiple ‘biomes’ of increasing complexity in which PC windows (or frames) are traversed to reach your goal….
Who are you going to vote for? The Strong Museum in Rochester, New York yesterday announced the 12 finalists that will potentially be inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame in May, after receiving thousands of entries for consideration. The list, which is available on the Strong Museum’s website, contains a wide range…
Nvidia has categorically denied that its upcoming RTX 50 family of laptop GPUs has been hit by the same missing ROP debacle as numerous variants of RTX 50 desktop graphics cards. Reports emerged this week from German tech site Heise Online that Nvidia had instructed laptop makers to double-check the ROP or render output count…
Heh, good luck. Nintendo has been absolutely relentless when it comes to Switch emulators, and for good reason: the company recently confirmed that the Switch 2 will be backwards compatible with the vast majority of Switch titles, so naturally, it doesn’t want folks accessing said games in other ways. As such, emulation projects like Yuzu…
If you’ve missed out on the launches of the RTX 5090, then the RTX 5080, then the RTX 5070 Ti, and then the RTX 5070, the RTX 5060 might be your last chance, as signs point to it launching very soon. As pointed out by VideoCardz, and attributed to ‘the most recent whispers’, Nvidia is…
It’s on with the King of the Kongs. This review was originally published in June 2011. We’re updating and republishing it to mark the arrival of the game in the Nintendo Switch Online Game Boy library. In 1994, Nintendo had a great idea; why not make a true sequel to the original Donkey Kong arcade…
“It’s a really happy surprise”. Back in 1999, developer Sacnoth released the RPG Koudelka on PS1. Created, produced, written and directed by former Square staffer Hiroki Kikuta (who also composed the music), the game is unique in that it’s set in Wales, and its dialogue is spoken entirely in English. Kikuta—who recently reunited with Square…