“I said, ‘Hey, bro, you know, it’s all fun and games!”. One of my favourite anecdotes about the Game Boy (and one I sincerely hope is actually true) is that when a senior Sony executive spotted it, they berated their engineers and claimed it should have been a Sony product, given the company’s success with…
Taking The Initiative. Gameplay footage from the cancelled reboot of Rare’s N64 icon Perfect Dark has surfaced online, offering the world a teasing glimpse at the further adventures of the Carrington Institute and its finest agent, Joanna Dark. Perfect Dark was in development at Xbox subsidiary studio The Initiative, a “super studio” of sorts that…
Well, part of it at least. When Resident Evil Requiem launched to critical acclaim and became the fastest-selling entry in the franchise, director Koshi Nakanishi revealed that work would continue and that it would receive a DLC expansion in the future. Now, thanks to an interview with Requiem’s writer Haris Orkin, we have a vague…
A lot of the 3D games I consider touchstones of thoughtful player movement are a decade or more old: Mirror’s Edge, of course, Titanfall 2, Dishonored 2, Doom Eternal or ARMA 3. That’s by no means a comprehensive list, but these are the games that come to mind when I think about in-game movement that…
The clock’s tickin’, dude. Indie outfit Atomic Windmill is pushing toward the completion of a brand new ZX Spectrum game that takes the hazardous and hyper-punctual world of food delivery and transposes it to the outer regions of the galaxy. Space Pizza puts players in the unenviable role of “the galaxy’s fastest, possibly only, interstellar…
Well, the arcade version, at least! It’s time to grab your clubs (the virtual kind anyway), as SNK’s Fighting Golf has just been announced for Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, as part of Arcade Archives 1 & 2. Known as Lee Trevino’s Fighting Golf outside of Japan, Fighting Golf hit arcades back…
Free furniture! The Pokémon Pokopia Mystery Gift codes haven’t been coming thick and fast since the game launched earlier this year, but with the Chansey Plant code wrapping up yesterday, The Pokémon Company has been quick to release another. As brought to our attention by Serebii, a new distribution event is now available. If you…
‘When these are gone, they are gone’. RetroRemake has opened pre-orders on a limited range of transparent SuperStation One units. The frosted FPGA consoles are already selling fast, with RetroRemake noting that once all pre-orders are filled, no more of these variant shells will be made available. Currently, the Smoke (black) and Watermelon (pink) editions…
Update today! Trainers have been waiting for a few months, and now The Pokémon Company has finally rolled out the Pokémon HOME update adding support for Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen. This bumps the app up to Version 4.1.0. We’ll provide more details soon. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
The multiplayer tour mode in Galactic Racer lets you upgrade a speeder over the course of six races while other players manically shunt you into the wall on every track. It’s a best-of-both-worlds mode that adds a little of the campaign’s run-based progression to a multiplayer tournament. But since you only get one race on…