Long before home consoles dominated living rooms, arcades were the proving ground for gaming’s most daring ideas. Cabinets built between the late 1970s and the mid-1990s often pushed hardware limits that home systems simply couldn’t match. Many of these machines never made the leap to consoles, yet their design fingerprints are still visible in modern…
Not to fully transform into the Pepe Silvia meme pointing at a wall of “evidence” but I’m convinced Blizzard is gearing up to announce something StarCraft-related at BlizzCon this year. The first reliable clue came from Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier’s 2024 book on Blizzard’s history where he said the studio was “incubating” a StarCraft shooter…
As it continues to try smoothing the waters churned up by the recent layoff of thousands of people, Xbox has followed up last week’s big Fallout infodump with the launch of a new “Backward Compatibility on PC” program that will bring old-time Xbox games, previously exclusive to the platform, to PC and compatible handhelds for…
With Star Wars Zero Company, developer Bit Reactor aims to create a tactics RPG with characters and narrative at the forefront. It’s got proper, big-budget cutscenes, you can talk to your buddies, and you can customise and upgrade your squad. However, the developers have gone on record in a new Discord Q&A to say, no,…
Category: Games July 22, 2026 We All Float On: The Goodyear Blimp is Now Available to Fly in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Mike Nelson, XBOX Wire Editor The Goodyear Blimp, one of the world’s most recognizable aircraft, is now available to fly in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024! This exciting new release builds upon Goodyear’s century-long…
One of the highest courts in Europe has described VPNs as “lawful technical tools which users may legitimately use” in a landmark case. The Court of Justice of the European Union made this remark as part of a larger judgement regarding the online publication of The Diary of Anne Frank. The case in question is…
Wanna play? After a brief tease, Hasbro has now fully revealed its new line of Legend of Zelda: Heroes of Hyrule toys (thanks, IGN). They’re pretty much exactly what we were expecting, too. Three figures make up the first batch of toys, and these include Link, Zelda, and Ganondorf. What’s perhaps more surprising is that…
Arrives digitally this week! A new Commodore 64 is launching later this week from the developers of Gremlin Graphics games like Bounder, Re-Bounder, Bulldog, Future Knight, and Skate Crazy. Thin Ice is expected to release tomorrow (Thursday, July 22nd) and is being developed by Christian Shrigley & Terry Lloyd, both of whom worked at Gremlin…
Nvidia’s Arm-based processor for laptops was unveiled after much waiting at Computex back in June. RTX Spark is Nvidia’s first proper go at a consumer chip, combining CPU and GPU, and while it is of course targeted at AI workloads, it’s also targeted at gaming. Now, Nvidia has confirmed which will be the first brands…
Crimson and Prime. This is 2018’s SupaBoy SFC, the previous iteration of the handheld Hyperkin has announced that it is re-releasing its SupaBoy portable SNES clone in two new designs. Read the full article on timeextension.com Crimson and Prime. This is 2018’s SupaBoy SFC, the previous iteration of the handheld Hyperkin has announced that it…