Benten-Maru wrote the music to legendary theme song. We’re sad to report that the composer of “Edge of Soul” — the iconic opening theme song to the Namco 1990s PlayStation fighting game Soul Blade — passed away last year. Masahiro Ohki (credited under his stage name Benten-Maru) reportedly passed away on October 6th 2024, after…
Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding 2: On the Beach will release on PS5 June 26, with the inevitable PC version yet to be dated. It looks pretty wild and the trailers certainly suggest we’ll be getting a lot more Metal Gear flavouring than the original, even if I could do without promo events where Hideo Kojima…
Many of you probably remember the 1980’s Isometric games of Batman and Head Over Heels by Ocean Software: two great games for systems such as the Amstrad, ZX Spectrum, and the more recent MSX2 remake. So here’s a great news update for fans of these games. As we have recently been told by Saberman, that…
“It should have been an OLED screen from the get-go”. One aspect of the Nintendo Switch 2 that has generated a lot of interest is its display. While Nintendo released an OLED model of the original Switch, which massively improved over the launch model’s LCD screen, for Switch 2, it has opted to return to…
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“This is your pilot speaking. Just one moment, my traffic controller needs to swap out their floppy disk… there we go.” Those are disquieting words you probably don’t want to hear, for nobody wants to know their airborne equilibrium is still in the hands of 20th-century technology. Yet apparently, many US air traffic control systems…
Category: Games June 11, 2025 Mixtape Is a Box of Surprises that Plays Like a Classic Teen Movie Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief About 10 minutes into my hands-on with Mixtape, I started thinking to myself: “This is the first game I’ve played where its biggest inspiration might be ‘Wayne’s World’”. And then I hit…
There’s something alluring about high finance, isn’t there? Mostly, I suppose, it’s the promise of generating absolutely enormous amounts of money for very little actual work, but it’s undeniable that the industry—such as it is—has gone out of its way to cloak itself in a certain mystique. The suits, the jargon, the barking into telephones…
Ubisoft announced earlier this year that, as part of a massive overhaul, Rainbow Six Siege was becoming Rainbow Six Siege X, and adopting a free-to-play model to boot (which the publisher insists on calling “free to access”, more on which later). Ever since release Siege has been one of the best tactical shooters out there:…
A sold-out 700-strong crowd at the BBC’s famous TC1 studio in West London’s Television Centre was treated to an awesome demonstration of racing on Gran Turismo 7 on Saturday, 7 June. With a display of stunning cars gracing the Helios Circle outside the iconic venue, and a big screen relaying the action to those without…