“Our hope is that this interactive format makes reading feel like an adventure”. A new handheld gaming system that aims to bring back the magic of ’80s text adventures is currently in development, according to a recent post on the Crowdfunding website Crowdsupply (thanks NotebookCheck!). The handheld, which is being called Ink Console, features a…
Mass Effect 1 and 2 are, as far as I’m concerned, two of the best albums ever released, and the games they put out to promote them aren’t bad either. That’s in no small part down to composer Jack Wall, whose fingerprints are all over the iconic, wobbly synths of tracks like Vigil, Suicide Mission,…
This article is a follow-up to my Donkey Kong on Atari article published in Issue 31 of this magazine. That article was limited to home versions of Donkey Kong released for Atari systems during the commercial life of the systems, so no homebrew versions or versions for other consoles were covered. This article will explore…
Marvel Rivals is a bit of a genius trick, really. The concept of making a hero shooter, well, about super heroes? Downright savvy. Comic books are famous for having dozens upon dozens of characters with entire wardrobes of bespoke outfits pre-created—not to mention their powers lend themselves well to the ‘three-to-four abilities plus an ultimate’…
Marvel Rivals’ popularity has led to that most contemporary of cottage industries: A whole bunch of dataminers and supposed leakers that descend upon any new version of the game, and get into the guts to predict what’s coming next. Almost immediately after launch a large chunk of the future roster was apparently revealed via “hero…
Paul Hammond’s ‘Wor Games’ is playable now in browsers. A new fanmade remake of Midway’s maze shooter Wizard of Wor has just been released on itch.io and is now playable in your browser of choice. Wor Games, as the remake is called, is the work of the developer Paul Hammond and was inspired by both…
If you’re a fan of 1990s disaster movies, you’ll know all about the potential damage that an undetected asteroid could wreak if it impacted Earth. While finding massive metallic rocks in space is relatively easy, asteroids that are just ten metres in size are far harder to spot. A team of physicists at MIT, however,…
AMD’s Frank Azor was quick to step on rumours last week of a 32 GB variant of the RX 9070 XT, categorically denying the mega-VRAM-equipped hypotheti-card would be released. Now it seems he’s just playing with us, as he’s taken to his X account once more to “tease” a 320 GB card called the 90700.05XTXT…
Not Abyssmal. During Sony’s February 2025 State of Play presentation, the big shadow drop was Koei Tecmo’s Warriors: Abyss, which offers a low-budget, roguelite take on the popular Warriors hack ‘n’ slash formula. The good news is that this genre hybrid feels like both halves fit perfectly together—the mindlessness of the combat mixed with the…
Live service games are treated like some great and powerful cheat code for generating awesome amounts of shareholder value. It’s so great that EA’s CEO thought that it could’ve saved Dragon Age: The Veilguard from underperforming, and a recent GDC survey revealed that a third of “triple-A developers” are working on live service games as…