It’s my understanding that, for some reason, people keep making ARPGs. This befogs me. As a people, we really kind of hit the nail on the head with Diablo 1. Do we need more? More enemies? More loot? More graphics? Of course not. We only need more ways to play Diablo 1 on more and…
I’ve seen some wild and wacky PC cooling solutions in my time, but this one might beat them all: An RTX 4090 cooled with a household air conditioner. Chinese techtuber 电解碳酸钠 (which machine translates to “Electrolytic sodium carbonate”) has shown off the extreme cooling system in a video on Bilibili. The channel says that it’s…
New survey reveals retro is alive and well. We know that retro gaming is big business, but there are so many ways to play old-school games these days that you can be a fan of classic gaming and not own original hardware; consoles like the Switch and PS5 give access to titles digitally, and we’ve…
D(ream)S. Two clamshell OLED monitors that promised Switch connectivity for on-the-go multiplayer mayhem obviously brought the potential for big-screen DS play to mind, but would the Duoone OLED actually live up to these lofty goals? That’s what our Alex has been investigating. The Duoone OLED cuts a pretty sweet-looking figure, we’ll admit. Alex got his…
The memoir of a true games legend. Julian “Jaz” Rignall has done it all. Video game champion. Magazine editor. Game producer. TV commentator. Website launch editor. Video game research analyst. During a career which began in the ’80s and continues to this very day, Rignall has witnessed the evolution of an entire industry, and he’s…
Take your time. If you, like us, have been eagerly waiting for new information on Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate, then you’re just going to have to be patient and wait a bit longer. However, given that next to nothing has been shared regarding the game since its initial teaser trailer in 2021,…
Zeichi Games tech demo is looking promising. We’ve seen plenty of video games based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles media franchise, but the one which sticks out for most people is Konami’s legendary 1989 side-scrolling arcade fighter. A staggering commercial success, its legacy has reverberated through the decades, so much so that it was…
46Okumen has released its latest fan translation. A new English translation patch has just dropped for the PC-98 RPG Appare-den: Fukuryū no Shō, making the game significantly accessible for Western players. Released in 1995, Appareden: The Sacrosanct Dragon (as it is being translated here) is a top-down adventure from Technical Group Laboratory — a Japanese…
Switch 2, anyone? If you’d have told us five years ago that Batman: Arkham Knight would make its way to the Nintendo Switch, we would have laughed in your face and waddled off back to the Iceberg Lounge. Alas, alongside its predecessors, Arkham Knight arrived on Switch in December 2023, and though it wasn’t particularly…
Fan-made port gets better with each update. Of the many community-made Mega Drive projects currently underway, Final Fight MD is one we’ve been following the longest. Mauro Xavier’s port is shaping up to be one of the best versions of Capcom’s legendary side-scrolling fighter, and already has elements that were missing from the SNES version—such…