“We’re reigniting and rebooting the series”. SNK’s legendary run-and-gun series Metal Slug is currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, and to mark this milestone, the company has today released a special retrospective video showcasing the franchise’s history. It covers not only the past and present, but also taps into the series’ “ever-exciting future” with a teaser…
Owlcat’s RPGs have a history of launching in a terrible state but improving significantly over time. When I replayed Rogue Trader last year, with the benefit of a bunch of patches and a couple of expansions, I had a much better time than I did when it was brand new and I hit a progress-blocking…
It released Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 last year. Iron Galaxy, an American developer known in the Nintendo space for assisting Retro Studios with Metroid Prime Remastered and the release of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 last year, has this week announced more layoffs. The studio confirmed this in a post…
Monitors are kind of important. Like, you need them to see the games you play, man. But on a deeper level, picking the right one to see your games as intended actually is important—be that going up to 4K for those beautifully rendered textures or OLED for true blacks. Monitor manufacturer AOC seems to agree,…
A few weeks ago, Philips announced the Evnia 27M2G5800, a poetically-named, 27-inch, 5K dual-mode gaming monitor for sale in China, and today, the company has announced a western counterpart—the 27M2D5901A (yeah, monitor names are like that). I managed to get hands-on experience with the screen at a press event in Croatia, and dual-mode works as…
Last week, popular World of Warcraft private server Turtle WoW got hit with a cease and desist from Blizzard after a judge ruled in the studio’s favor regarding a copyright infringement suit filed last September. Court documents revealed that the two parties reached a settlement that hinged on “certain actions that are required to be…
In a new video on his YouTube channel, RPG veteran and Fallout Designer Tim Cain talked about the first time he was ever exposed to Dungeons & Dragons, a pivotal influence on the developer: Some of his mother’s coworkers showed him the ropes all the way back in the Carter administration. Oh, and they happened…
Portal 2 is one of the easiest-to-recommend games in the entire medium, and part of that is down to the custom levels scene it’s inspired for over a decade now. There are around a million on the game’s Steam Workshop entry alone—and if you’ve ever tried modding it yourself and chafed at the game’s limitations,…
Ever since Godzilla first battled Mechagodzilla all the way back in 1974, it’s been clear to everyone that nothing exists which cannot be made cooler by the inclusion of giant robots. This axiom is self-evident, so there’s no need to ask a question like, “Would Doom be cooler if you could pilot a mech in…
“Every chance of being the best since SNK themselves stopped manufacturing hardware”. Ever since Plaion announced it was working with SNK to produce a replica of the Neo Geo AES, there’s been a fair amount of speculation about what’s going on under the hood of the machine. Plaion has already stated that the Neo Geo+…