Review: Polymega Collection Vol. 13: Sengoku Blade – Come For The Comically Large Chests, Stay For Chimera Beast

The first release for Jaleco’s nightmarish cancelled shmup. Psikyo’s excellent arcade output has found a second life on modern-day systems, one of which is the Polymega, which has already played host to Strikers 1945 and Gunbird-flavoured packs. A third collection pays tribute to Psikyo’s other big franchise, Sengoku Blade / Tengai, famous for its historical…

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After whiffing its release date by 5 years, Crimson Desert is putting out oodles of preview stuff as ‘We never want to be accused of hiding anything, because we have a lot of ground to make up’

According to our Harvey’s Crimson Desert preview, Pearl Abyss’ upcoming action-sorta-RPG is quite good indeed. It’s also late. It should have been here, let me check, five years ago? Yep. Crimson Desert was first revealed at 2020’s Game Awards with a proposed release year of 2021. After, ah, whiffing that slightly, it’s now due out…

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EGGCONSOLE’s Latest Releases Include A “Classic” Riverhill Soft Mystery & A “Masterpiece RTS” From Falcom

‘Kohakuiro no Yuigon’ & ‘Advanced Lord Monach’ are coming to Switch. D4 Enterprise, the company behind EGGCONSOLE, has officially revealed the next two titles in its ongoing series of retro reissues for the Nintendo Switch. This week’s title, according to the announcement, will be the PC-8801 version of River Hill Soft’s 1988 adventure game Kohakuiro…

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‘The reason why we’re so beloved in the videogame industry and we’re so deep in it still is, in a lot of ways, we created the modern videogame industry’ says Nvidia CEO Huang

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang spoke at the Morgan Stanley Media and Telecom Conference yesterday, and, yes, AI and a celebration of Nvidia’s recent successes were very much on the table. After a somewhat subdued opening (“Wow, no music, no walk on music, no roaring applause?” said Huang, jokingly), the Nvidia head honcho got down to…

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‘Without Intel, I don’t know if Windows would have happened… without Mac, I wonder whether Office would have happened’ says Microsoft CEO

Long-time Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been surprisingly candid in a recent chat with Morgan Stanley, highlighting, in as many words, how much the company has to thank both Intel and Apple for. This came in response to a question—well, more of a statement than a question—commenting on Nadella “embracing openness”. For instance, regarding Microsoft’s…

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