Short and suite. Looking for a pick-me-up on a chilly morning (or afternoon, or whenever you happen to be reading this)? This five-minute arrangement of classic Koji Kondo tracks from the Mario series just might do the trick. Recorded back on 23rd August, the WDR Funkhausorchester takes a delightfully brisk jog through some classic platforming…
Could Arthur and the gang return? The rumours about Red Dead Redemption 2 getting ported to Nintendo’s Switch successor have been doing the rounds on the internet for some time now. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Pre-orders are now available. If you’re still on the hunt for certain Switch 2 accessories and are looking for alternatives to Nintendo’s products, there are plenty of third-party offerings. Accessory maker Turtle Beach has already released a headset and it’s now announced it’s bolstering its own line of Switch 2 products. This includes a new…
Sail through your daily Wordle with our help. Today’s clue is a flexible thing, able to start you off on the right track, or turn later fights with tricky yellow letters (there’s always one… or two… or three…) into something much more manageable. Just want to know where to start? We’ve got a hint for…
Alien Isolation is my favourite horror game, but it’s too long and I think that opinion is near unanimous. When it feels like it’s drawing to an end it just keeps going, and its protracted runtime is exacerbated by the fact that it’s an unbearably tense experience. I adore this game, I swear I do,…
But there’s no new music updates next week. The fan favourite Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door made its grand return last May, and in an update to the Nintendo Music app this week, Nintendo has now added the game’s soundtrack. This includes not only the Switch version of the soundtrack but also the original GameCube…
Just a few miles away from Disneyland, a private arcade party and screening of Arcades & Love Songs with Walter Day took place at a private residence in Fullerton, CA on August 30, 2025. What made this screening special was the private arcade (AKA “Garcade”) that brought all the Old School Gamers together. After the…
Thankfully, it’s not a “major” delay. Yacht Club Games’ new title Mina the Hollower was on track for a 31st October 2025 release, but it seems the plans have now changed. In an official statement on the company’s website, the “delay extravanganza” continues – with the team behind this new retro Zelda-inspired adventure having to…
One of the big growing pains of the third generation of video games was the longtime hi-score mechanic, or more specifically, its slow move to irrelevance. As NES games started to trend toward level variety, as opposed to gradually increasing difficulty in infinite repetition, simply finishing the game at all bAll Postsecame the accomplishment…
I’ve taken a few peeks at Deathground since it was announced back in 2020: it’s a co-op survival horror game where up to four players sneak and creep through an abandoned research facility, being stalked by ravenous dinosaurs every step of the way. It’s Jurassic Park simulator, in other words, where you try to complete…