EGGCONSOLE Publisher Pulls Reissue Of PC-88 RPG ‘Burai: Joukan’ After Complaints From The Game’s Creator

Takeo Iijima was not contacted about the 1989 title’s rerelease. D4 Enterprise, the company behind the EGGCONSOLE series of reissues of classic computer games for the Nintendo Switch, has quietly pulled its rerelease of the Riverhill Soft PC-8801 role-playing game Burai Jouken from sale, following complaints from the original creator Takeo Iijima. The game, which…

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These are the last few Windows 10 zero-day security updates you’ll see unless you fork over for extended coverage

If the past few weeks of being battered around the ears by calls to upgrade Windows 10 wasn’t enough, the final cumulative update for the operating system might be a final reminder of why to do so. That’s because the latest Windows 10 update, version KB5066791, fixes several zero-day vulnerabilities. This might make you consider…

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Capcom execs were bewildered that people might want to play original Resident Evil when GOG approached them about it: ‘We have all of those remakes. It’s already the superior experience’

I tend to share my colleague Ted Litchfield’s philosophy when it comes to remakes. Do what you want (though I prefer reinvention to a one-to-one remake), just don’t kill access to the original. It doesn’t seem like too much to ask for: the kids get to play a version of a classic, I get to…

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Despite past posting, Randy Pitchford is actually ‘happy to live in that world’ where Borderlands 4 complaints aren’t about ‘how we f*cked up the story’, after all

Borderlands 4 has had some time to brew in the public consciousness, and the general consensus—one I agree with—is that the story is just… fine. If anything, it’s a little too middle-of-the-road, but given my key enjoyment of the game has a lot to do with the shooting and very little to do with the…

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