If you’ve ever wished your fidget toy were a mini games console with an OLED display and six key switches, you can build one yourself with some electronics know-how. Well, more accurately, you need a lot of electrical know-how, as demonstrated by user wjddnjdnd’s project at Instructables (via Hackaday). Playfully titled the GameBox Clicker, this…
RetroAchievements is quite the (ahem) achievement. I don’t know about you, but I have a severe case of “choice paralysis” when it comes to playing classic games in the modern era. For the longest time, I was a steadfast purist who would only play on original hardware, and, even now, I still feel this is…
One of the biggest draws towards Helldivers 2 is the Galactic War—a high-concept metagame that sees the entire community taking objectives, defending planets, and securing story-relevant goals to shape the fate of the galaxy itself. Or at least, that’s the premise. Throughout the game’s lifespan, it’s been occasionally called into question. Take the Menkent Line,…
Category: Games February 10, 2026 Uninstall Treason From the Galaxy – Liberate Cyberstan in Helldivers 2 Update Dominic Wiggan, Senior Copywriter, SIE Summary Machinery of Oppression, the latest major update to Helldivers 2, arrives today on Xbox Series X|S. The nefarious socialist cyborgs have revealed themselves on Cyberstan, adding a new enemy faction to the…
If you’ve just dropped into the hellish battlefield of Cyberstan in Helldivers 2, you’re likely already wondering how to kill a Vox Engine. These are the heaviest new Automaton enemy—a rolling arsenal of lasers, miniguns, and rocket barrages, and they’re seemingly very tanky, at least to conventional explosives, orbitals and airstrikes. Well, after getting far…
Mewgenics isn’t very forgiving on your troupe of cats. Some will be born with genetic mutations, others will get permanent injuries from in-fighting, and some will be lost in battle, and lots of it will be out of your control. However, one thing you can decide is your cats’ classes, which take the form of…
I like to think I’m a relatively smart person; I can often remember most of my ABCs and it only takes me around five seconds to add seven to something. But one thing will remain forever beyond me: mahjong, the Chinese tile-based game that I mostly know as ‘that one Yakuza minigame I simply don’t…
“I really wish I had asked him more about those things while he was still alive”. Kazuo Sawa, a prolific composer of music during the NES era, has passed away, we’re sorry to report. The news was confirmed by his son on social media and spotted by Resetera member Hayama Akito. Read the full article…
Good morning, everyone. If you’re on social media and follow the Knapp Arcade pages, you know that my friend Rob and I are on one of our regular Arcad… The post Update on Stern Pinball’s Next Game; Jersey Jack Pinball Augmented Reality; Last Call for Labyrinth appeared first on Old School Gamer Magazine.
Nadal it’s cracked up to be? Having never been any sort of tennis fan for my entire childhood — Wimbledon always seemed a bit posh to me — I fell completely and utterly in love with the sport in my teenage years through the medium of video games. Yes. Video games. They’re a whole thing!…