On September 9, 1999, the Sega Dreamcast launched in North America and forever changed the gaming landscape. More than two decades later, the Dreamcast is still alive thanks to indie developers who continue to create new titles and thanks to publishers like VGNYsoft, who are still producing them on physical media. To celebrate the system’s 26th birthday, VGNYsoft is…
Silksong’s getting its first patch next week—with a playable beta branch already available on Steam, and while there’s the usual bug-fixes, one adjustment seems super interesting: Silksong’s early game is going to get easier. Well, a little bit. As the patch notes linked above read, there’ll be a “Slight difficulty reduction in early game bosses…
Silksong making a mockery of you? Are you gnashing your teeth, clenching your fists, almost snapping the controller in two as Moorwing reduces you to a thin red paste for the 78th time (there’s a skip for that, you know)? Why not bring a pal? Just to be clear: it won’t actually help. They’ll just…
It might be proving too much for some. Team Cherry has announced the first patch for Hollow Knight: Silksong, bringing a solid selection of fixes and improvements to the newly-released game (thanks, Eurogamer). Due for launch “mid next week”, one key aspect of the patch is that it will actually nerf the game’s difficulty in…
I’m not sure why I played so much Pinball on my Windows machine as a child. Nor am I sure why it was given so many different names, like Space Cadet 3D Pinball, 3D Pinball for Windows, Microsoft 3D Pinball, etc. What I do know, however, is it ran great on my old Windows NT…
We’ve been reporting on the hoped-for launch of Intel’s “big Battlemage” GPU for what seems like forever. The latest step towards that near-mythical eventuality is the emergence of packaging for the supposedly upcoming RTX 5070-walloping graphics card in a shipping manifest. Interpreting these shipping manifests from the NBD website is something of an art in…
It’s been about six months since AMD FSR 4 launched and one of the only real problems with it has been uptake. There just haven’t been many games that officially support the upscaling and frame gen tech, and enabling it has often required the use of a third-party tool. Now, though, AMD has finally added…
Y’know, only seven years after its announcement. Forever Entertainment has announced that Panzer Dragoon Zwei: Remake will be playable at this year’s Tokyo Game Show 2025 event. The game was originally announced all the way back in 2018 alongside the remake of the first game. The latter launched in 2020 and wasn’t quite the slam…
The Kirby franchise first kicked off in 1992 with Kirby’s Dream Land on the Game Boy, and over the course of five mainline entries, the formula was pretty established by the turn of the century. Yet, for the pink puffball’s big debut on the Nintendo 64 in 2000, developer HAL Laboratory was brewing up something…
“We had so many other names that we were in love with”. In an exclusive interview with Time Extension, which went live yesterday, Leslie Swan, a former localization director at Nintendo and one of the individuals responsible for bringing Animal Crossing to the West, shared some fascinating insight into the arduous process behind naming the…