A Konami Deep Cut From The Creators Of Contra & Ghost ‘N Goblins Is This Week’s Arcade Archives Release

‘Mega Zone’ was released in Japan in 1984. Following a set of exciting announcements last week (namely, Console Archives and the impending rerelease of Rave Racer), Hamster, the company behind Arcade Archives, is back to basics this week, with another arcade deep cut: Konami’s tank-based shoot ’em up, Mega Zone. The game, in case you’ve…

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The creators of a popular Dark Souls 2 lighting mod are experimenting with path tracing and, oh boy, it no longer looks like an Xbox 360 game

Dark Souls 2 is the second-best Dark Souls game and that’s fairly uncontroversial. But it’s also famously the most ugly. Chief among the complaints people have about Dark Souls 2, is that the game’s original lighting engine—the one FromSoftware went to great lengths to show off back in 2013—was entirely absent in the final game….

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