It’s that time of year where everyone says they’re going to sort out the boxes and bags of stuff that have been thrown into storage, and yes, I’m among the crowd who is desperately trying to do the same. But half the fun of deciding to do this is finding things I’ve simply forgotten I…
On the face of it, Altera looks like a typical military survival sandbox. It’s a game about wandering through a massive, vaguely central European landscape in military camo, building a base, crafting useful items, and taking on missions from dead-eyed NPCs to shoot other dead-eyed NPCs in authentic ranged combat. It’s basically DayZ without the…
Welcome back, Tenno. The Switch 2 version of Digital Extremes’ free-to-play online action game Warframe launched this week, and as promised, it’s loaded with a bunch of next-generation enhancements. If you haven’t already played it yourself, the development team has now shared its own side-by-side comparison trailer highlighting all of the improvements from higher resolution…
I’m not sure I’ve entirely got my head around Vaunted, the latest game to emerge from the stable of Hooded Horse, PC gaming’s hottest publisher. Revealed at last week’s Xbox Partner Preview, Vaunted is a sci-fi tactical RPG where you control a motley crew of thieves and mercenaries forced to do the bidding of a…
My favorite old school game has got to be 1962’s Spacewar! Spacewar! may well be the first true video game ever made. Developed by Steve Russel and collaborators at MIT. This 2-player space combat video game was played on a circular monochrome vector graphics display with “wrap-around” math. When the Spaceship went off the side…
Won’t you play with my Chingling? Back in February, we ran a series of polls to determine your very favourite Pokémon after 30 years of the franchise. With 1025 known Pokémon at the time (this was before the reveal of the Gen 10 starters, and we’ve asked for your thoughts on those already), it was…
Move over, Nick Valentine, there’s another synthetic sleuth in town. Revealed at this week’s Xbox Partner Preview, Artificial Detective is a new action adventure game from neophyte studio Vivix, composed of former developers of games like Dead Space, Control, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Artificial Detective sees you play as a robotic gumshoe…
Wind Waker! Sonic X-treme! Evercade! Welcome to Retro Recap, a regular feature we run each and every weekend which rounds up all of the best retro gaming news and content of the past week in one place. Read the full article on timeextension.com Wind Waker! Sonic X-treme! Evercade! Welcome to Retro Recap, a regular feature…
It’s been nearly thirteen years since we last saw a Splinter Cell game, and there’s little chance of another one appearing any time soon. A remake of the original Splinter Cell is supposedly in the works, but it’s been in development long enough for its original director to leave the project, spend three years doing…
Extreme Offence. Well hi there, and welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl! Last week, we checked out Resident Evil: Code Veronica X for the GameCube, and would you believe it, we have a tie! Yes, both North America and Europe bagged 38% of the vote each, leaving Japan trailing with 25%. We’re not…