“What is this, a Game Boy for ants?”. Released all the way back in 2001, the Pokémon Mini is one of Nintendo’s most unique portable projects – and one which perhaps didn’t hit the commercial heights you might have expected. A dinky monochrome handheld which ran even dinkier cartridges, the Pokémon Mini only saw 10…
Unlimited Powaaaah. Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade is heading to the Switch 2 on 22nd February 2026, finally letting both fans and newcomers experience Square Enix’s ambitious reimagining on a Nintendo console since its initial release in 2020. Not only that, but the entire remake trilogy, including Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and an as-yet untitled…
Borderlands 4 is here, and Borderlands 4 is very demanding. This we know, after a launch last week mired in optimisation complaints, stuttering woes, and crashes. In response, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has been busy batting off critique regarding the game’s performance on his X account over the weekend—although his comments don’t appear to have…
Quick, name the biggest videogame launch of all time. Minecraft? Black Ops? One of them there Mario Karts? Wrong answers, all. It’s obviously Grand Theft Auto 6. What do you mean it’s not out yet? What’s that got to do with anything? That’s what Rockstar thinks, anyway. The studio’s been spotted (by The GTA Base…
European pro golfers are wearing virtual reality headsets as part of their training programme. Not to improve their swing, but to help them learn to block out the hollers and chants of what’s expected to be a pretty fiery crowd at the next Ryder Cup in the US. Next week, pro golfers from across Europe…
The “missing” second chapter in the Popolocrois series launched in Japan in 1998. Poporogue, the second game in the Popolocrois Story series, has just received an English fan translation, courtesy of LostOkina and Aquagon. Based on the manga series created by Yohsuke Tamori, Poporogue was released for the original PlayStation in 1998 and is set…
“I don’t want to just sleep all the time”. I don’t know about you, but as I grow older, my reaction time appears to be getting worse, and I fear that one day, I’ll suck at video games (well, more than I do already, anyway). However, it has long been argued that interactive entertainment is…
“Everyone’s happy to work for the company”. Super Mario turned 40 last week, and to celebrate, BBC Archive dug into its library to produce a clip from 1990, a time when Nintendo was dominating both Japan and North America (not entirely unlike today, you could argue). Taken from an episode of The Money Programme broadcast…
Not long to go. The latest UK charts data is in and the newly-released Borderlands 4 has performed admirably, hitting the number 1 spot ahead of both Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza. Of course, we still have a couple more weeks or so to wait until the Switch 2 release, with Borderlands 4…
“It’s still far from complete accuracy”. Once upon a time, it was claimed with some degree of confidence that the MiSTer FPGA platform would never host cores for consoles like the PS1, N64 and Sega Saturn, yet in 2025, we have excellent and accurate options for all three. Of that trio, the Saturn core has…