With permission from its original programmer. The source code for the engine that powered the 1996 Sega Saturn first-person-shooter PowerSlave was released yesterday on the code-sharing website GitHub, with the approval of its original programmer Ezra Dreisbach. This means that now it’s not only possible for people to take a closer look at how the…
There’s an incredibly high chance that the moment you started a run in Peak for the first time, you immediately ran to a strange green plush known as Bing Bong, which survived the plane crash. If you’re anything like me, this then continued to happen each run until you realised that bag space was super…
EA’s Skate series was one of my childhood favourites—I’m not nearly as skateboard-obsessed as I used to be, but I was into the classics. THPS (there was a time when I thought Underground was peak fiction, don’t judge me) and Skate 1 and 2 were a huge part of my childhood rotation. Which is why…
A new developer update uploaded to YouTube has detailed Disney Dreamlight Valley’s upcoming update, Emotional Rescue, which is set to arrive on August 20 with a new realm, two characters to invite to your valley, a fresh Star Path, and a number of new features to make valley life a little bit more streamlined. It’s…
Launching next month. Publisher Feardemic has announced that Bad Cheese, a new survival horror from developer Simon Lukasik, will launch on the Switch (with backwards compatibility on Switch 2) on 1st September 2025. Much like Bendy And The Ink Machine before it, Bad Cheese utilises old-school ‘rubber hose’ animation, which was perhaps most notably used…
Telenet RPG Collection announced. Edia has revealed that it will be releasing a new collection for Nintendo Switch later this year in Japan, bringing together three Telenet Japan RPGs from the past (thanks Gematsu). The Telenet RPG Collection will include the Super Famicom titles Dark Kingdom, Hiouden: Mamono-tachi tono Chikai, and The Journey Home: Quest…
“We’re really not far off now”. Bitmap Bureau has to rank as one of the hardest-working indies working in the UK right now. Not only is the small team continuing its epic quest to bring the superb Xeno Crisis to every console under the sun, it is also working on the promising-looking Terminator 2D: No…
Gen AI appears to have been used to create new dialogue. Tomb Raider IV–V–VI Remastered has given Lara Croft fans both old and new a means of reconnecting with her past adventures, but recent updates to the collection have attracted criticism from some sectors of the community due to the alleged use of Generative AI…
More details will be “shared in the future”. We’ve just had an update about the new battle-focused game Pokémon Champions at the World Championships, and apart from the news it will lead as the main title for the VGC scene next year along with a Mega Evolution update, we’ve also got details about platforms and…
Taking place in “downtown San Francisco”. The major mystery reveal at this year’s World Championships event for Pokémon was the announcement of Pokémon XP. This news was revealed alongside the confirmation of an “epic arena experience” for Championship Sunday next year at the Chase Center, San Francisco between 28th – 30th August, 2026, with passes…