After a brisk 12 years, Ubisoft has suddenly remembered it apparently owns some kind of series where you do war crimes for the NSA. The company has just added Steam achievements to Splinter Cell: Blacklist, the 2013 stealth-action game that marks the last time Sam Fisher was seen alive in a videogame of his own….
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has done rather well for itself—going blow-for-blow with bigger budget competition in the JRPG space, a genre title that has now fully detached from the country in its acronym because ol’ 33 is rather French, but I digress. One million sales in under a week, rave reviews, and heavyweight Steam concurrents…
It didn’t take long for Oblivion Remastered players to start pushing the boundaries to see what they could get away with. It only took three hours for someone to upload the first gooner mod, and now one player has managed to break through Cyrodiil’s border into Valenwood and Hammerfell. Valenwood is to the southwest of…
AI—that is, the annoyingly titled generative AI, which is super different from the AI we’re used to in games, is also different from machine learning technology—has been a massive point of contention just about everywhere. In art, in music, in acting, and in coding. As a result, it’s also been an issue in videogames, because…
Dizzy fans it’s time to really celebrate Dizzy in a really big way, as a very special Dizzy redux of ‘ Crystal Kingdom Dizzy ‘ on the ZX Spectrum, has only moments ago just appeared in our news feed. The original CKD was first released in 1992 on a multitude of systems in a completely…
A Steam success. Manor Lords publisher Hooded Horse and developer Eremite Games have today announced that the award-winning dark fantasy roguelike city builder (is that enough genre terms for ya?) Against the Storm will be making the jump to Switch on 26th June. This one launched on Steam in late 2023 and has since gone…
Collection now limited to Grind Stormer and Slap Fight. Retro-Bit has confirmed that the upcoming Toaplan Shooters Collection Vol 2 will only contain two of the proposed three games due to “licensing constraints.” The postponed pack—which was previously advertised as containing Twin Cobra, Grind Stormer and Slap Fight—will now ship with just the latter two…
Larian’s journey with Baldur’s Gate is officially over. Oh, I’m sure there’ll still be the odd bug fix, and who knows what might happen in the far future, but for now the studio is finally done adding free content to Baldur’s Gate 3, there’s no DLC or expansions coming, and it’s not making Baldur’s Gate…
Get a good look? Mario Kart World will introduce a boatload of new features when it drops on 5th June 2025 as a Switch 2 launch game. We’ve got a new open-world environment, courses that effectively join together in the Grand Prix, snacks that grant characters with new costumes, and much more. Small, less obvious…
Originally released for PC-88 in 1986. Sein Soft’s 1986 sci-fi shooter Mirai has been announced as the next classic Japanese computer game coming to the Nintendo Switch, as part of D4 Enterprise’s ongoing EGGCONSOLE series of retro reissues. According to the company’s website, the PC-88 version of the game will arrive on the Nintendo eShop…