Includes categories like “Best Nu-Retro Game of the Year”. Move over, Geoff Keighley, there’s a new awards show in town. Pixel Helix, the marketing company behind August’s Pixel Arcadia, has just announced a trio of live broadcasts for next year, including the inaugural Pixel Arcadia Retro Awards, which is set to take place in January….
Certainly can’t be accused of running scared. Manufacturer Anbernic has released a new video offering a “first look” at its next incoming handheld hardware, RG DDS (“Dual Dream Screen”). The promotional video (which is a reupload of a clip shared late yesterday) shows the new dual-screen device running releases such as Monster Hunter Generations: Ultimate,…
Key deets 💀 If you preorder Modern Warfare 4 digitally, you’ll get early access to the campaign starting October 16 and DMZ on October 20. 💀 The full release is on October 23 at midnight local time. 💀 PC preload is already live. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is releasing soon, but also features…
‘Utopia has a special place in my career’. Earlier this week, we broke the news that boutique publisher 33 Games had failed to pay its staff, contractors and licensees, with money to the tune of several thousand pounds being owed. Since our investigation went live, 33 Games has taken its site offline, and Time Extension…
Addams Family ‘Backgrounds Edition’ is available now. If you happened to play Ocean Software’s 1992 port of The Addams Family for the Commodore Amiga back in the day, you’ll know that it came with a pretty big compromise. Namely, that the game lacked the detailed backgrounds seen elsewhere in the other versions (SNES, Atari ST,…
In contrast, Epic’s store “always feels sterile to me—you can complain about the Steam comments all you want … but, what they also do is they give the player a place in that world. They give the player actual agency and import and power inside of that ecosystem.” Yeah, that tracks. The Steam forum is…
We are now in the second half of the most brutal war to play out on the pages of this venerable website—a war that will determine, through democracy and science, which RTS unit is the greatest of them all. Two weeks ago, the conflict started with 16 units. Last week, eight survivors duked it out…
As part of an interview that I conducted with Peter Molyneux in Guildford recently, a wide-reaching chat that covered everything from Molyneux’s final game, Masters of Albion, and its new game-changing update, through to the origin of Black & White’s famous titan creatures, I also asked the veteran designer why a third Black & White…
watercooling from r/watercooling/comments/1x724mr/two_different_versions_of_amd_9950x3d2_dual I’ve never been stung by Amazon, but I’ve heard enough stories for it to be a worry. Amazon can take returns and list them again as new products if they pass inspection, which can open the door for scammers if something slips through inspection. And it’s tales of this happening with expensive components that…
‘I’m a little late to this party, but I’ll still come’. Krikzz’s range of EverDrive flash carts has paved the way for retro gamers to have their entire collections at their fingertips, and now the engineer is looking to expand the range with an Optical Drive Emulator, or ODE for short. ODEs let you load…