“An obscure Japanese game console made for little girls finally gets DOOM!”. Since its original release on PC back in 1993, homebrew developers have been trying to get DOOM to run on everything, from smart fridges to tractors. This resulted in many unofficial ports of the game to platforms that never originally had DOOM, with…
A successful quest for booty. It’s a new week, so it’s time to check out the latest UK boxed charts data. Fresh off its release on 9th July, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced has stormed to the top to grab the gold. For those interested, PS5 expectedly took the lion’s share of sales at 84%,…
If you’ve forgotten Silent Hill: Downpour it was the western-developed Silent Hill that went semi-open world and had a bunch of sidequests in it, but was still a bit too busy trying to retell Silent Hill 2 only with the villain in a different hat. It wasn’t a disaster, but to say “at least it…
A good retro collection used to start with a console, a box of cartridges and a shelf that could still bear weight. Now some collectors want the whole machine: the painted cabinet, the coin door, the reel glass, the original buttons and the odd smell of old wiring after it warms up. That has pushed…
Last month at the PC Gaming Show we got to bring you a behind-the-scenes look at Total War: Warhammer 40,000 including glimpses of a battle between the Astra Militarum and orks. The video above, revealed at BiliBili World, is a more detailed look at the same battle in the Armageddon Theatre campaign, and looks sick…
As reported by WCCFtech, the Dutch consumer organization Stichting Massaschade & Consument now believes it has an even stronger case in its €400 million ($457 million) lawsuit against Sony over the 30% rate it charges on every game sold through the PlayStation Store, a “Sony tax” that retail games are not subject to—the same retail…
First spotted by Kotaku, prolific director Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer, Interstellar) recently gave his takes on AI in filmmaking and the explosive success of Backrooms in an interview with The Telegraph (readers may encounter a paywall). The interview comes as part of the lead up to Nolan’s next film, an adaptation of the Homeric epic, the…
From the archives: This feature was originally published in PC Gamer #302 (UK, March 2017). You can still subscribe to PC Gamer to get new issues of the magazine (in print!) every month. My playthrough of the first game was more disaster than Dishonored. At the time, I didn’t quite grasp that slitting every throat…
Super Mario Bros. Special! Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure! Evercade price hike! 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 Super Mario Bros. Special! Rhapsody: A…
As reported by Massively OP, senior developers at ZeniMax Online Studios said that the company has returned to its circa 2015-2018 headcount, before it staffed up for the development of canceled MMO Blackbird. The estimate is similar to one recently proffered by id Software in a statement on X, “The Everything App.” Unofficial Elder Scrolls…