As the “father of videogame history,” I’m often asked about what I consider the most influential of all videogames. Without any hesitation, I’ll always respond with the simplest game imaginable. Although it consisted of only three spots, no sound, and no scoring, Table Tennis was the game that kick-started the entire video game industry, and…
Category: Announcements March 31, 2026 Xbox and Fanta Team Up for a Special-Edition Collection – With Prizes and In-Game Rewards to be Claimed Marcos Waltenberg, GM, Xbox Global Partnerships & Consumer Products Summary To celebrate Xbox’s 25th anniversary, Xbox and Fanta have partnered to launch a delicious special-edition collection of Fanta bottles and cans inspired…
It looks like the Pocket Fit 8 Elite’s days might be numbered. AYANEO has suggested it could soon discontinue another of its handhelds due to the recent “increase in storage component prices.” In an IndieGoGo update for the Android-based KONKR Pocket Fit, published last Friday (h/t: GSM Arena), AYANEO revealed that the Pocket Fit Elite…
Huge claims have been made about Nintendo’s 2026/7 plans. Last week, well-known Nintendo sleuth Nate the Hate revealed a whole bunch of information regarding the company’s potential plans for the remainder of 2026, with a little bit of 2027 thrown in for good measure. The legitimacy of these claims is still up in the air,…
Do You Like?/ offers “limitless branching scenarios”. Shoppers in Akihabara have spotted a new Game Boy Color game on store shelves which appears to bridge the gap between retro gaming and modern technology in a manner which might not find favour with everyone. Developed by Nanu, Do You Like?/ is described as a “mystery adventure…
The service gets switched off today. Today – March 31st, 2026 – marks the official end of an era with the decommissioning of Japan’s 3G FOMA antennas. The decline of the i-mode was a slow burn: NTT DoCoMo stopped accepting new subscribers (users had to pay a monthly subscription to access the service) from September…
The Dust on the Wires quest is one of the first you’ll be greeted with when you load up Arc Raiders new Flashpoint update, and while it’s relatively straightforward, it’s got a lot of stages. You’ll be heading to Spaceport for Shani to investigate the whereabouts of a missing scout patrol, which involves finding a…
Taiwanese megafoundry TSMC is reportedly sold out until 2028. That includes its cutting edge new N2 node, which is expected to be used by everyone from Nvidia and Apple to AMD and Intel. It’s even claimed that TSMC has sold out capacity at future fabs that have yet to be built. According to South Korean…
40 Winks’ Game Boy Color port has finally been preserved. In 2019, Piko Interactive resurrected a lost N64 port of Eurocom’s PlayStation platformer 40 Winks almost twenty years after it had been abandoned. It was a bizarre turn of events, but stranger still is that it apparently wasn’t the only version of the game that…
When I tried out the Slay the Spire board game in 2024, I was really impressed by how well it adapted the videogame to the tabletop—and especially its clever addition of a co-op mode (nearly two years before Slay the Spire 2 did it!). I assumed, though, that it was a one-and-done box. The base…