Safeguard Drac’s pumpkin garden. While the original Donkey Kong is arguably one of the most famous (and important) games in Nintendo’s history, its sequels are slightly less well-known and certainly struggled to match Kong’s explosive debut in terms of commercial and critical acclaim. Despite this, they actually enhanced and evolved the gameplay, with 1983’s Donkey…
If you get the error message, head to the contact page. It’s come to light since Switch 2 launched that Nintendo is cracking down on people who make copies of its software — legitimate or otherwise — by ‘banning’ consoles it detects playing copies of Switch 1 games – a worry for anyone considering a…
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 is all about fast, frantic fun, but that’s not to say you won’t benefit from a little helping hand when it comes to pulling off more elaborate tricks, which is where game mods come in incredibly handy. If you’re wondering about whether or not the cheats used in…
“soon I’ll be catching up to his age, won’t I?”. Masahiro Sakurai has taken to social media to provide a small, but welcome update on Kirby Air Riders while also paying tribute to Satoru Iwata, the former president of Nintendo who passed away on 11th July 2015. As reported by Automaton, Sakurai states that Kirby…
“Composed and designed to run on actual Amiga computers”. German electro-pop composer Denis Karimani – better known as Remute – has cornered the market when it comes to creating albums which run on retro gaming hardware. He’s already produced albums for the SNES, C64, Game Boy and Mega Drive / Genesis, and now it’s the…
It all used to be better, you know. The sun shone, cool winds caressed amber cornfields, everyone got all the Christmas presents they asked for, and real-time strategy was the dish of the day—the genre Goliath to which all others were mere Davids. Except they were losing. They were like David but they lost. I’m…
Every time a game you loved when you were younger gets a remake, you’re bound to feel a bit concerned about whether or not it’ll be any good, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 definitely struck that worry in me when it was announced. I grew up spending a decent amount of time…
Aggro Crab and Landfall have been hard at work polishing up Peak for players to enjoy. What started out as a simple jam game or a way to take a break from bigger projects quickly snowballed into something more, as it was able to sell two million copies in just nine days. The devs already…
World of Warcraft has waited, well, arguably too long, to have a player housing system. Despite being a unanimously popular feature of most MMORPGs, WoW waited a stonking 20 years before incorporating the ability to have a home, sweet home into its economy. The upshot of this, however, is that it can systematically see every…
No ROMs for you! A major Switch ROM site – ‘nsw2u’ – has been seized by the FBI as part of a ‘law enforcement operation’. As reported by Kotaku, nsw2u was one of the better-known repositories of Switch ROMS, which allowed users with hacked Switch consoles to download emulated games at will. In other words,…