Now that’s what I call fang-tastic news! The legendary Konami composer Miki Higashino has revealed that she will soon be returning to MSX development, lending her musical talents to the MSX2 Castlevania-inspired project Nightstalker. Nightstalker, in case you didn’t happen to catch our coverage of the game last year, is a homebrew project, currently being…
Recon is my favourite Shell to play as in Marathon, so I was surprised to learn that she is considered one of the weaker characters in Bungie’s extraction shooter. This is true both for the PC Gamer team and, apparently, Bungie themselves. Yesterday, game director Joe Ziegler revealed that Marathon’s intelligence-focussed Shell would be getting…
Unofficially, of course. We have some great news to share with Jak & Daxter fans. Earlier this week, the team behind the OpenGoal (the open-source decompilation and porting project focused on the Jak & Daxter trilogy) released a beta of its native PC port of Jak 3, meaning that all three games are now at…
Take-Two Interactive has seemingly laid off its Head of Artificial Intelligence, alongside an unspecified portion of its AI team, just two months after CEO Strauss Zelnick said the Grand Theft Auto 6 publisher was “actively embracing generative AI”. Luke Dicken joined Take-Two as its Head of Artificial Intelligence in January last year following a decade…
VR support is coming soon. A new PS1 emulator is in development which will enable VR support in certain titles. VRified Games has shown off footage of Metal Gear Solid running in an emulator and says it will offer both first- and third-person modes, stereoscopic 3D, and 6 DOF head tracking. Read the full article…
Still throwing shapes (and beats). Back in the heady beforetimes of 2018, we reviewed a little indie game from Berzerk Studio that did exactly what it said on the tin. Just Shapes & Beats, a self-described ‘musical bullet hell’ , had you manoeuvring a little shape to avoid taking a beating from an environment keyed…
“It’s more so about the achievement of making it possible and solving it”. Super Mario Bros., as we know, is now over 40 years old – so you’d expect every secret contained within the game’s code to have been uncovered by this point. However, as reported by Polygon, a new glitch was recently found in…
SEGA and Lizardcube, the team behind the hit brawler Streets of Rage 4, have released the SEGA Villains Stage DLC for SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance! In this blog, we’d like to share some highlights from the DLC and the free update that went live today, as well as some words from the developers. ■About SHINOBI:…
Including visual enhancements, crossplay and more. As we get closer to the Switch 2’s first anniversary, more and more developers are starting to release updated versions of existing titles. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Just don’t expect everything. If you plan to play the Switch release Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream on your Switch 2, there will be some slight improvements. As detailed in Nintendo’s recently published FAQ, while there are “no differences in the software content”, the gameplay will take advantage of the Switch 2’s capabilities. For starters,…