“I’m excited to get locked into my new role”. Dimitris Giannakis, lead developer on Limited Run’s Carbon Engine and better known by his YouTube handle of Modern Vintage Gamer, has announced that he is leaving the company to join the Atari-owned Digital Eclipse. “After 6+ years of building and shipping games with the Carbon Engine…
Even though it’s one of the largest manufacturers of memory and flash storage chips in the world, Samsung hasn’t been enjoying much success in the stock market in recent times. However, two separate reports might provide the reason why the South Korean semiconductor firm’s fortunes are suddenly looking a whole lot rosier. The first is…
Whisper it, but Konami might be back: or at the very least, is showing some signs of life after what feels like over a decade in the doldrums. That’s slightly overstating things of course, because Konami has always been a profitable company with fingers in many pies, but it hasn’t been competing at the top…
Sucker Punch studio head Brian Fleming has commented on the case of a studio veteran who was fired from the studio for “making light” of the assassination of far-right activist Charlie Kirk. Drew Harrison, who had worked at Sucker Punch as an artist for almost 10 years, wrote “I hope the shooter’s name is Mario…
Dropping two days earlier on other platforms. Windwalk Games and Team17 have announced that the release date for their upcoming co-op roguelike, Sworn, has been shifted from 25th September, a.k.a. Hades 2 Day™, to 23rd September on PC and (other) consoles, with a Switch version due to arrive at “a later date.” This colourful roguelike…
Silent Hill f isn’t some spin-off or experiment for Konami to indoctrinate its players into performing perfect dodges or counters—it’s the next step for the iconic horror series, which is finally dragging itself to new horizons. Watching as the fog settled on Ebisugaoka, listening to the eerie sound design, and witnessing the emotionally tumultuous story,…
No bones about it. London is no stranger to a Pokémon pop-up shop these days, and The Pokémon Company has today announced that we can expect to see another one hit the capital city next year. In the Natural History Museum, no less! From 26th January to 22nd March 2026, the museum’s Cranbourne Boutique shop…
Now rocking the RK3326. FunnyPlaying’s Retro Pixel Pocket – an Android-based emulation handheld shaped like a Game Boy Pocket – is getting a new variant that boosts its power and reduces its price (thanks, Retro Handhelds). The original model sold for around $100 and shipped with the Allwinner A64 chipset. According to our friends over…
Guess who’s back, back again. We are back with the latest look at the UK physical gaming chart, and, surprise, surprise, Mario Kart World is back at the top of the pile. The Switch 2 launch title hit a speed boost this week and cruised past former champion Borderlands 4 to take the top spot….
Based on the Master System version. Golden Axe launched in 1989 and provided a welcome change to the standard belt-scrolling brawler format. Instead of controlling a leather-clad vigilante in some grim cityscape, you assumed the role of three fantasy warriors, battling across a fantasy world not entirely dissimilar to that seen in Robert E. Howard’s…