The Minish Night Cap. In the magazine business, the Back Page is where you’d find all the weird goofs that we couldn’t fit in anywhere else. Some may call it “filler”; we prefer “a whole page to make terrible jokes that are tangentially related to the content of the mag”. We don’t have pages on…
Category: Games July 8, 2026 Buckshot Roulette: The Viral Horror Phenomenon Joins XBOX Game Pass Today Mike Klubnika, Developer & Pavel Korovkin, Brand Voice Lead, CRITICAL REFLEX Summary Buckshot Roulette is out today on XBOX Series X|S, XBOX One, cloud, XBOX on PC, and included with Game Pass. Play it on both console and PC…
“The Lenovo G02 is officially dead”. Not very long ago, our friends over at Retro Dodo reported on the news that Lenovo had released an emulation handheld that was being sold pre-loaded with copyrighted ROMs, including games owned by the likes of Nintendo and Sega. The company initially argued that, as the device was intended…
I had the pleasure of playing four hours of The Blood of Dawnwalker last week—and while I can’t say it’ll knock my socks off just yet (RPGs that claim to have impactful choices just require more sitdown time to prove their worth) it has absolutely got its teeth into me, because I experienced something rare:…
Try 4 of the 12 different sports. Nintendo has announced that it will offering up playable sessions of Nintendo Switch Sports Resort at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con from 23rd – 26th July 2026. Attendees can try out 4 of the 12 different sports on offer with the new entry, though which specific events have…
A cybersecurity firm associated with the Chinese government reportedly has concerns about Anthropic’s Claude AI models and has warned users against trusting it, at least before updating to the latest version. As reported by Reuters, the Chinese National Vulnerability Database (NVDB) claims that recent Claude Code versions have a monitoring mechanism that transmits sensitive information…
Konami’s 1987 ‘Hyper Crash’ arrives on modern platforms this week. One of Konami’s more obscure arcade titles is making the jump to modern consoles this week as part of the Arcade Archives & Arcade Archives 2 series. Hyper Crash is a 3rd-person racing game from Konami, which was released in arcades in 1987. It saw…
The reasons behind the decline and ultimate end of Destiny 2 will always be a topic of discussion. It’s, in my opinion, one of the biggest fumbles in entertainment history. No one thing is to blame, but former Bungie CEO and avid car collector Pete Parsons, who retired in August 2025 as sentiment was at…
As a documented remaster liker, it was a real black day for me when Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition came out, back in 2021. It was a complete mess, filled with bugs, shoddily upscaled textures, weird models, and at least one alarmingly smooth hexagon. It was shoddy treatment for a series…
If you’ve ever heard of Covert Bitops then you would’ve known they released the fantastic action adventure game ‘ Hessian ‘ for the C64 in 2016. A game which blew us away with over 667 screens with specialized AI enemies found throughout that must either be avoided or shot at. Well as of this moment…