“It Is Literally Everywhere And It’s Changing Lives” – The National Videogame Museum Is Creating The UK’s First Game Design Archive

“This is a cultural medium”. The late Nintendo legend Masayuki Uemura (left) visited The National Videogame Museum in 2020 The Sheffield-based National Videogame Museum is gearing up to establish the UK’s first archive of video game design, reports the BBC. Read the full article on timeextension.com “This is a cultural medium”. The late Nintendo legend…

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Sega Co-Founder David Rosen Has Passed Away

Legendary Sega boss died on Christmas Day. Stefano Arnhold (Tec Toy President), David Rosen and Mr Sakurai (Executive Director of Sega) photographed in 1985 Sega co-founder David Rosen passed away on Christmas Day, surrounded by his family, RePlay Magazine reports. He was 95. Read the full article on timeextension.com Legendary Sega boss died on Christmas…

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Arc Raiders dev says it uses ‘aggression-based matchmaking’ to pair bloodthirsty, PvP-minded players with each other

Arc Raiders has gotten plenty of praise for being a touch more chill than other extraction shooters, and that’s by design—right on down to the game’s matchmaking system, which takes notice of how aggressive you are and tries to match you with like-minded players. This was confirmed in an interview stream Games Beat conducted with…

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Fallout designer Tim Cain reckons his subsequent 3 projects were buggy games ‘or, as people called them, flawed masterpieces’ because ‘we had a lot of feature ideas, we did not edit ourselves at all, and we were a small team’

After heading up development on Fallout 1, project lead Tim Cain split from Interplay to found a new studio, Troika, alongside fellow Fallout devs Jason Anderson and Leonard Boyarsky. In a recent vlog on his YouTube channel, Cain dug into why Troika’s output lacked a certain spit shine polish compared to their previous games and…

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