“I can no longer afford to run the site”. Myrient, a self-described “video game preservation service” which houses over 390 terabytes of “organised collections publicly available for download”, is closing down on March 26th, it has been announced. Aimed at retro gamers and emulation fans, Myrient’s USP is that it offers fast download speeds and…
The countdown to April begins! Limited Run has already announced a new Marvel collection this week, and we’ve now got an update on the Bitmap Bureau and Mattel collaboration, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: Dragon Pearl of Destruction. Following the original reveal in August last year. it’s now been officially confirmed this 2D…
The new amiibo launch later this year. Resident Evil Requiem is out today on the Switch 2, and if you’re planning on jumping in, there’s a day one patch. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
I have a soft spot for the Disgaea games. The molasses-thick anime trappings aren’t appealing to me, but I’m drawn to the joyful excess of the things: In Disgaea 6, for example, the player cap for a character is 99,999,999, which is 99,990,000 more than the Disgaea 5 level cap of 9,999. Even thinking about…
Yanis Varoufakis is probably the only Greek parliamentarian with a background in the videogame industry, having been the economist-in-residence at Valve before he was elected in 2015 and then made finance minister. Nowadays he’s general secretary of MeRA25, the European Realistic Disobedience Front, a political party he founded as part of the Democracy in Europe…
The wait is almost over. Timed in with Pokémon’s 30th anniversary is the release of Pokémon Pokopia, arriving exclusively on the Switch 2 next week. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
The “core visual identity” has been preserved. It’s a huge week for the Resident Evil series with the arrival of the latest entry Resident Evil Requiem. For Switch 2 owners, this is one of the first major third-party releases to hit the platform alongside other versions, so how does it hold up? The talented team…
Doors with mysterious slots and arcane runes? Tantalizingly locked safes? Giant monsters roaming the hallways? Yep: This is Resident Evil, all right. As PC Gamer’s Elie Gould highlighted in their glowing Resident Evil Requiem review, this entry in the series attempts a delicate balancing act, delivering the series’ classic puzzles and exploration as well as…
A review of Resident Evil Requiem has been pulled from Metacritic after humans noticed it was AI-generated. UK-based site Videogamer.com published the review by author Brian Merrygold, who doesn’t seem to exist, and whose Videogamer profile picture carries the filename ChatGPT-Image-Oct-20-2025-11_57_34-AM-148×148.png. He is nevertheless described as “an experienced iGaming and sports betting analyst with a…
MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) This week: Finished the original Mass Effect for the first time ever, and wished I liked it more. If the opening hours of Marathon’s server slam playtest are any indication, Bungie’s latest won’t be the surprisingly cooperative extraction shooter Arc Raiders has become. Despite the presence of features…