“What a colossal waste of talent.”. Last week’s layoffs at Microsoft and Xbox Games were shocking to say the least, with over 9,000 people losing their jobs, including veterans at Rare, Romero Games, and the cancellation of big projects such as Perfect Dark. This comes despite the fact that the tech giant reportedly made $26…
And agony for Toad fans! Sega’s popular mascot Sonic the Hedgehog will be playable in JNMartin’s unofficial Mario Kart 64 Dreamcast port, it was recently revealed. According to Falco Girgis, a member of the Sega Dreamcast homebrew community (who helped spread word of the project last month), the character will occupy the slot previously taken…
We finally got the news that Cyberpunk: Edgerunners will be getting a second season three years later, and in celebration of this, alongside the announcement, we got to see a short official teaser trailer for everything that’s to come. A good chunk of this trailer focuses on Season 1’s story, namely David and Lucy. We…
Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) 2025 has officially fired the starting gun, meaning dozens of speedruns, goofs, and charity drives are coming down the highway to a VoD near you. In case you’re unfamiliar, GDQ is a charity speedrunning event where streamers get together in a convention centre—this time, in Minneapolis—to livestream days upon days…
Hands-on with Limited Run’s new port and Retro-Bit’s rumble pad. When you talk about unbelievable programming achievements, the 1995 SNES port of DOOM is right up there. id Software’s FPS changed everything when it arrived on PC in 1993, and it was considered the benchmark release for many of the next-gen platforms which launched around…
Debunker’d. Missile Command Delta, from developers Mighty Yell (The Big Con) and 13AM Games (Runbow), is an experience of two halves. The first is a turn-based strategy take on the classic Dave Theurer-developed arcade game Missile Command; one that shouldn’t work in theory, but genuinely does. The second is a misguided attempt to add context…
This weekend I spent some time at one of the weirder shrines to capitalism I’ve ever attended. Held in the same halls where geeks gather for PAX Australia, Collect Fest recently brought its Ebay-backed swathes of stalls to the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. With booths from hobbyists of all stripes from sneakers to film…
‘Rubber Keyed Wonder – The Game’ is out now on itch.io! A new game, inspired by Gracious Films’ “definitive” ZX Spectrum documentary The Rubber Keyed Wonder, has just been released for the classic 8-Bit computer. The appropriately titled Rubber Keyed Wonder – The Game is one of the physical items that is being offered online…
In sickness and in stealth. While Kojima fans on Switch might be feeling a little left out with all the Death Stranding 2 buzz, not to mention the lack of 60fps options in the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 (we’ve still got our fingers crossed for a Switch 2 update), it seems like…
Still not got your copy? This might be the closest you ever get to playing it. Ah, what can I say about Paprium that hasn’t already been said a million times already? Originally available for pre-order in 2017, WaterMelon’s belt-scrolling Genesis beat ’em up has experienced one of the most bizarre development cycles ever witnessed;…