“Launching free for 24 hours was a huge bet for us,” Guntouchable developer Game Swing says, but it certainly got eyes on the game. More than two million people claimed it in a single day. Guntouchables is a slapstick co-op roguelike that on any other day would have probably passed me by. But I am…
Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon promises NetherRealm is “still committed to refining MK1 to be our most balanced game” after surpassing six million sales… despite officially ending major support for it nearly three months ago. Mortal Kombat 1’s most recent sales announcement puts it ahead of both Street Fighter 6—which reported five million sales two…
Mega Man ’94 is coming to Blu-Ray. The boutique DVD/Blu-Ray publisher Discotek Media announced during a Otakon panel that took place over the weekend that it will be bringing out a new standard edition Blu-Ray of the Ruby Spears’ animated Mega Man TV series. Originally airing between 1994 to 1996, the 2-season show was based…
CEO Christian Simpson seems confident on unravelling the IP mess. The big news in the world of Commodore is that ‘Commodore Corporation BV’ and all 47 original Commodore trademarks have been snapped up by Commodore International Corporation, a new entity run by retro gaming YouTuber Christian Simpson. The first commercial product to be produced as…
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is headed to the White House later today, August 11, to talk shop with President Trump. Only days ago, Trump called for Tan’s immediate resignation on his social media platform, Truth Social. Talk about awkward meet-ups. According to the Wall Street Journal, speaking to people familiar with the matter, the two…
Boulder Dash is one of the games I distinctly remember playing on my Apple II computer in the mid-80s. Over a span of six years, it was released on nineteen different platforms after originating on the Atari 8-bit series of computers. Developed originally by Peter Liepa and Chris Gray, it is a maze game where…
The original Spectrum coder has also given the project his blessing. If you’ve been following the ongoing Kickstarter campaign for the ZX Spectrum Next, you may have spotted the recent stretch goal that’s just been added for a new Monty Mole game. But what you might not know is that this isn’t the only Monty…
A price that’s lite on your pocket. Turtle Beach is one of the more well-known brands that’s already got an entry on our current list of best gaming headsets for Switch 2, and it looks like it may well be sniffing after another with its latest, rather snazzy-looking budget offering. Turtle Beach’s Airlite Fir for…
Pac-Man World 3’s Martin Sherman confirms his involvement. Pac-Man World 2 Re-Pac is set to feature the return of the voice actor Martin Sherman as Pac-Man after almost 20 years away from the role. Sherman didn’t originally voice the Pac-Man in Namco Hometek’s 2002 version of Pac-Man World 2, with the character largely remaining mute…
New Line has screenwriters Ben Zazove and Evan Turner involved. The trend of using video games as the foundational basis for big-budget movies continues unabated. In recent years, we’ve seen films inspired by Mario, Monster Hunter, Resident Evil and even Tetris, and now it’s the turn of Taito’s iconic 1978 shmup, Space Invaders. According to…