Category: Xbox Game Pass October 1, 2025 Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans Team Xbox Our goal with Game Pass has been clear: deliver unmatched value, benefits, and a deep library of games for our players. Since launching in 2017, we’ve steadily grown our subscriber and creator satisfaction – and…
Gee Bee lands tomorrow. The next Arcade Archives title coming to Switch 1 and Switch 2 buzzes onto the consoles tomorrow, 2nd October 2025, and it’s the first-title Toru Iwatani — the creator of Pac-Man — developed for Namco. The 1978 release Gee Bee is the next game in Hamster’s huge catalogue of ports. Notably,…
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with Quartercade creator Daniel Jones, who discusses the new console and its arrival on IndieGogo later this month. Check it out Below: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-quartercade-the-budget-gaming-console/coming_soon Old School Gamer Magazine: What was the inspiration for this console? Daniel Jones: Honestly, it was a number of things but I’d say the biggest was the…
Look, I know we’re all playing Silksong, but if I could direct your attention to a slightly different Metroidvania for a moment—Nine Sols, Red Candle’s first and only action foray, was one of my favourite videogames from 2024, period. Contributor Abbie Stone waxed lyrical about it back in June of that year, but for some…
Fire Emblem, disengage. I’m always suspicious, a little tiny bit at least, of games that I play on my mobile phone. Not because I’m somehow wise to something about the platform others aren’t, but more because I’m old and remember the long and arduous ‘Trash Years’ (as I like to call them) of terrible, terrible…
Sora 2, the latest model of OpenAI’s text-to-video tech, has now launched alongside a dedicated app. Besides spitting out all of the soulless, AI-generated Studio Ghibli-style animation one could ever want, Sora 2 can now generate live action clips with both sound and a frankly scary level of visual accuracy. Granted, not all of the…
Borderlands 4’s next patch, as described by a dev last week, will be focusing on buffs to the cast’s Vault Hunters. This was reconfirmed on the game’s X account, which says that “the Vault Hunter buffs in our Thursday update gonna have you like [pinching emoji, starry-eyed emoji, pinching emoji]”. If you need a visual…
FPGA system is getting closer to release. SuperStation One creator Taki Udon has given us the best look yet at the system’s ‘Console Mode’ UI. This is the culmination of eight months of work, and is a user-friendly frontend which will also be compatible with existing MiSTer FPGA systems (that will include Taki Udon’s own…
Grace’s choice. Resident Evil Requiem, perhaps drawing inspiration from the added DLC for Resident Evil: Village, will allow players to choose from two camera perspectives for the main campaign: first-person and third-person. According to director Koshi Nakanishi, who also helmed Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, he thought that the seventh entry might have been a bit…
Due to an unexpected “packaging issue”. Blaze Entertainment, the company behind the Evercade family of systems, has announced that UK and European customers will now have to wait an extra month to get their hands on its upcoming Neo Geo Arcade 2 and Neo Geo Arcade 3 compilations. Blaze originally announced the two compilation carts…