I should be on the beach, but instead I’m playing Resident Evil Requiem. Here I am in Hawaii, sunny skies and steps from the ocean, and as soon as it gets dark, I’m thinking about making my way back to my hotel room so I can sit in the dark and play more of the…
Coming to Steam, Switch, PS4, PS5 and Xbox Series S/X this July. Implicit Conversions has announced that it is bringing the 1999 PS1 title 70’s Robot Anime Geppy-X to modern-day systems. Developed by Aroma and only released in Japan, Geppy-X is a 2D shmup which pays tribute to the classic super-robot anime series of the…
The signature of Fallout 76’s latest free update, The Backwoods, is obviously the addition of everyone’s favourite elusive cryptid, Bigfoot. But the patch also brings some much-needed changes to events and activities. For starters, you can actually tell their icons apart now. “One of the first things you guys will notice is that we’ve differentiated…
“I can no longer afford to run the site”. Myrient, a self-described “video game preservation service” which houses over 390 terabytes of “organised collections publicly available for download”, is closing down on March 26th, it has been announced. Aimed at retro gamers and emulation fans, Myrient’s USP is that it offers fast download speeds and…
The countdown to April begins! Limited Run has already announced a new Marvel collection this week, and we’ve now got an update on the Bitmap Bureau and Mattel collaboration, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction. Following the original reveal in August last year. it’s now been officially confirmed this 2D…
The new amiibo launch later this year. Resident Evil Requiem is out today on the Switch 2, and if you’re planning on jumping in, there’s a day one patch. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
I have a soft spot for the Disgaea games. The molasses-thick anime trappings aren’t appealing to me, but I’m drawn to the joyful excess of the things: In Disgaea 6, for example, the player cap for a character is 99,999,999, which is 99,990,000 more than the Disgaea 5 level cap of 9,999. Even thinking about…
Yanis Varoufakis is probably the only Greek parliamentarian with a background in the videogame industry, having been the economist-in-residence at Valve before he was elected in 2015 and then made finance minister. Nowadays he’s general secretary of MeRA25, the European Realistic Disobedience Front, a political party he founded as part of the Democracy in Europe…
The wait is almost over. Timed in with Pokémon’s 30th anniversary is the release of Pokémon Pokopia, arriving exclusively on the Switch 2 next week. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
The “core visual identity” has been preserved. It’s a huge week for the Resident Evil series with the arrival of the latest entry Resident Evil Requiem. For Switch 2 owners, this is one of the first major third-party releases to hit the platform alongside other versions, so how does it hold up? The talented team…