‘Zion: Advanced Mission’ releases in Japan next month. If you’ve been itching for a new game to play on your Game Boy Advance, then we have some exciting news to share. As recently spotted by Chronomoogle on BlueSky, it appears that Fore Stone’s long-awaited Game Boy Advance homebrew shoot ’em up, Zion Advanced Mission, is…
Developer Scope Creeps warns me as I boot up gun dating simulator Polyarmory: High Calibre Love that it is a team very much dedicated to the bit, and I didn’t have to go any further than its options menu to figure that out. For starters, there’s a toggle for BDSM clowns—much appreciated for those of…
Omega Force used Helping Hand! We weren’t the only ones to draw the Dragon Quest Builders link when Pokopia was first unveiled last year, and it was with good reason. As it turns out, we have Builders dev Omega Force to thank for the game’s speedy development time. That is according to Pokopia producer Kanako…
“The Earthion game ROM is now finalized”. Earthion was one of 2025’s best shmups, bringing Mega Drive / Genesis-level presentation to modern-day platforms – but the proposed 16-bit edition still hasn’t been released (well, not officially, at least). Thankfully, Yuzo Koshiro has confirmed that we won’t have to wait much longer, as the Mega Drive…
A 40-year old man from Ridderkerk in the Netherlands has been arrested for reportedly downloading files accidentally sent to him by the police, then apparently refusing to send them back unless he received a reward. That’s according to the Dutch National Police’s report on the incident (via BitDefender). The report (machine translated) says the man…
German website ComputerBase.de has conducted a blind comparison test pitting AMD’s and Nvidia’s latest AI-based upscaling technologies against native rendering at 4K in a poll of over 1,000 gamers. Across six different games, Nvidia DLSS came out on top as the stated preference of gamers, beating not only AMD FSR but also native 4K rendering….
I like to think I’m pretty good at spotting the tell-tale signs of AI-generated images: weirdly soft lighting, blurry background details, accessories or smaller details that simply disappear into nothing. Unfortunately, every ‘real or fake’ test I’ve taken thus far has been immediately humbling. The latest ‘real or AI-generated’ test I’ve stumbled across comes from…
Hello again, PlayStation VR2 players! We’re bringing Rager to PS VR2 on March 5, and we can’t wait for you to feel what rhythm-driven combat really means. Rager is a music-driven VR brawler where the rhythm is never background noise. Every strike, block, and dodge is tied directly to the soundtrack. Enemies attack in sync…
Secret of Mana: Reborn has just been updated. We have some potentially “history-making” news for Secret of Mana fans. A new update has just been released for Secret of Mana: Reborn, a ROM hack for the classic role-playing game from Square, featuring recreations of two previously unused locations cut from the finished game. This essentially…
World of Warcraft recently embarked on the massive undertaking of redesigning all of its many specialisations to work without the assistance of UI mods (addons) for Midnight—mods which previously automated a ton of the complexity of its classes. As an outlaw rogue, for instance, I had an addon which told me when I should cast…