Doth thine heart yearn for the glory days of 90s arcades, when conquering evil demanded a friend on the couch, blistered thumbs, and a battle-ready broadsword? https://www.qubytegames.store/allgames/blades-%26-battles Picture this: King Arthur meets the raw, visceral combat of Golden Axe and Knights of the Round. That is the essence of Blades & Battles, the new flagship 2.5D arcade…
A place is only as good as the people in it… If you’ve taken a wander around the streets and houses of the ol’ hometown recently and figured that, yes, you could do better, actually, well now’s your chance to prove it in Urbanitas, a new city-building sim from indie studio The Plush Girls. Built…
“avoid purchasing or using circumvention devices”. Nintendo is celebrating a court case victory in the Netherlands that says the sale of “devices designed to circumvent Nintendo’s security measures” is unlawful. Specifically referencing cards such as the MIG Switch Card, the case heard at The Hague District Court (Rechtbank Den Haag) involved a complaint against an…
Zach Cregger has a brilliant track record of directing horror films that are both horrifying and hilarious (at times). Weapons and Barbarian had moments of levity which made each respective film so much more bearable to sit through. Cregger is trying to do the same with his upcoming survival horror film, Resident Evil, the only…
So you’ve just been shot in Battlefield and now you’re lying in a mass of other players’ bodies, all of you hammering the ‘REVIVE MEEE’ request button as medics buzz about, helping everyone but you. If only there was a way to show them how important you are, that your life is clearly worth more…
Two floors of gaming goodness with more than 60 coin-ops. Retro arcade bar operator NQ64 has just opened its biggest venue yet in the heart of London’s swanky Soho district. Located in Orange Yard, Manette Street, NQ64 Soho follows the tried-and-tested format of the company’s other locations, mixing retro arcade games with vintage consoles, all…
The games industry’s been in an (understandable) fuss lately about the prophesied death of physical media from Sony, which has announced it’ll be going discless for the foreseeable future. Players are really angry because it’s not exactly great if the one place you can buy your games also controls the entirety of the pricing—as Sony…
It’s NEVER Game Over Yeaaaaaah! Prepare to take another Very Long Easy Right Baby, as notable modder “Shuouma” has successfully restored online connectivity to the Dreamcast muddy mudripper Sega Rally Championship 2. Originally ported to the Dreamcast in 1999, only the Japanese edition of Sega Rally 2 took advantage of the console’s rudimentary online capabilities,…
Hinge broke after using laptop upside down from r/Asustuf Listen, I’ve not always been a paragon of common sense; I once managed to bend pins on not one but two CPUs when upgrading my then-partner’s PC and my own—a two-for-one in sheer-faced idiocy, all within the space of an hour. So don’t consider this me preaching from…
Water lot of fuss. System 3 has just released the first gameplay trailer for its upcoming retro collection, James Pond Legacy. The trailer shows footage from all four games included in the pack, as well as its digital museum. There’s also a focus on the various modern features that will be included, such as screen…