“We were completely enamoured by One More Win”. Veteran game developer and journalist Andy Roberts has just launched Rocket Books, a new independent UK publishing house specialising in video game-related publications – and the company’s first release will be of particular interest to Ridge Racer fans. It’s reprinting the utterly superb One More Win (which…
“You cheated not only the game, but yourself”. Super Smash Bros. just got a native PC port, but the news hasn’t gone over all that well with many members of the retro community, thanks to the tools used to achieve it. TheWizWiki has been very open and transparent that the port is “100% Al-generated” and…
Canonical, the company behind the most popular Linux distro, says its web infrastructure is currently under a “sustained, cross-border attack.” Affected sites and services seem to run across the entire Ubuntu gamut, from its website to its blog and even potentially its repos. According to what user reports I could gleam from online forums—given official…
‘Beep Akihabara’ is getting ready to move to an undisclosed location. The popular game store Beep Akihabara is being forced to move this month because the building it has been based in for the past 10 years is scheduled for demolition. If you’ve been lucky enough in the past to visit Tokyo, Japan, in the…
The Total War Show & Tell included info on the historical games and destructible terrain in Total War: Warhammer 40,000, but a sizable chunk of its midsection was there to get us up to date on all things Total War: Warhammer 3. Including, right off the bat, game director Rich Aldridge saying to expect a…
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with GRIDbeat! Creative Director Dan Kingdom, who discusses the process to make the game a reality and what it is like to work with Acclaim. Old School Gamer Magazine: How was GRIDbeat! born? Dan Kingdom: GRIDbeat! grew out of a very simple idea I had early in the pandemic. At…
One of the things on our wishlist for Total War: Warhammer 40,000 is a cover system, and the Total War: Show & Tell makes it clear that we’re going to get our wish. And also, if we don’t like that cover, we’ll be able to blow it up. “You’ve got all of these tactical options…
And a “sneak peek” of The Mandalorian and Grogu. The annual Star Wars Day celebrations are almost here, and to join in on the fun, Epic’s free-to-play Fortnite will be dropping all sorts of themed content throughout the month. “Starting May 1, hundreds of these islands will go live and Fortnite will be the only…
Joy-Con 2 mouse controls are also supported. Final Fantasy XIV Online was finally announced for the Switch 2 last week, and if you want to experience this popular MMORPG with mouse and keyboard controls, you can! Game director Naoki Yoshida (aka Yoshi-P) confirmed this in a recent interview, and mentioned how the Switch 2 version…
Nintendo has improved the gameplay experience. It’s not every day Nintendo rolls out a patch for a demo, but it’s actually released another one for the Switch’s new social sim Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream. This bumps the “Welcome Version” up to Version 1.0.2, following an update at the end of May. So, if you…