From one of the guys behind Grimace’s Birthday. Prolific Game Boy developer Gumpy Function (AKA Tom Lockwood, one of the talented people behind the amazing Grimace’s Birthday) has just announced the release of Feed IT Souls: Department of Martian Efficiency Edition, a Metroidvania for the Game Boy Color which serves as a remake of his…
Ice to meet you, Mr Bond. When you’ve got to come up with a brand new name for a brand new team, why not make it something unbelievably cool, right? That’s what we say here at NL Towers, and Vancouver’s brand-new women’s hockey team seems to agree. We can’t think of another team with a…
After 13 years hacking through the development wilderness, TimeSplitters Rewind is out. Its creators revealed last month that the CryEngine-powered mod would finally be released in November. True to their word, Rewind is available to download now. Rewind is a somewhat unusual fan project, a mixture of remake, compilation and spiritual successor to the first…
Splash of the Titans. Developers Purple Lamp Studios are single-handedly keeping the dream alive for the continuing adventures of everyone’s favourite sentient sponge. 2020’s Battle for Bikini Bottom: Rehydrated was a fine update to a cult classic and a huge success to boot. The studio followed up with a solid sequel in The Cosmic Shake,…
But it’s certainly still the cheapest. When Irem & City Connection announced that they were working on a port of R-Type Delta HD Boosted for modern consoles and PCs earlier this year, there was a lot of excitement online. And it’s pretty easy to understand why. The original game is frequently listed online for hundreds…
A couple of months ago, I reported that you can install the Xbox full screen experience (FSE) on other handhelds than just the new Microsoft Xbox/Asus ROG ones. And now, Microsoft is opening up FSE for more than just handhelds, saying it’s “now available in preview for more Windows 11 PC form factors, such as…
What a legend. Once upon a time, video games used to come complete with an instruction manual, and one of the great pleasures of buying a new game was that time spent in the car on the way back from the shop, leafing through said manual to scrub up on things prior to booting up…
Dying in Arc Raiders sucks—it’s the low of extraction shooters. But what’s worse than losing all the stuff you came in and found during your run is losing it all because you did something truly stupid. I’ve been there before, crossing the creek in Dam Battlegrounds ahead of my group, I failed to look both…
Udo Kier—the impossibly prolific German actor that you and I will readily recognise as Yuri from Red Alert 2, Command and Conquer: Yuri’s Revenge, and Hideo Kojima’s upcoming OD—has died aged 81. His partner, Delbert McBride, confirmed the news to Variety. Kier appeared in over 200 films in the course of a long and remarkable…
Since the earliest days of humanity’s experiments with legal systems, we’ve been trying to find a way to make murder less appealing and trickier to pull off. Criminalising weapons, prison time, law enforcement—it turns out all we really needed was an extremely busy toilet. In a talk on proc-gen narratives at AdventureX, Shadows of Doubt…