Working for the Devil isn’t as bad as it may sound. You’ve got your own workspace, a helpful yet somewhat terrifying assistant, and as much toilet paper as you could ever want. All you have to do is sort through the mail, sending letters to the right floor and burning all the junk. This is…
Can you believe videogames have been around for, at minimum, 43 years? That’s probably longer than any human has ever lived, and they show no sign of letting up, despite the many letters I’ve written to the government. And wouldn’t you know it—the Golden Joystick Awards return for their 43rd annual show this November 20,…
“Experience Deltarune as if it were made in the ’90s”. After two years of work, a group of EarthBound ROM hackers has released something truly special for fans of the Toby Fox-developed indie game Deltarune: a recreation of the game’s first chapter inside the SNES RPG. Bound to the Dark World had been developed in…
There have been some incredible weapons in the history of PC gaming, and while not exclusive to the genre, there’s no doubting that most of them have come out of FPS games. From Painkiller’s Stake Gun, through to Quake’s Railgun, and onto Unreal Tournament’s Flak Cannon, among many others, there are many iconic weapons in…
“I used Castlevania, a game I was really into at the time, as a reference”. Back in 2023, former Tecmo staffer Hideo Yoshizawa – who served as director on 1988’s Ninja Gaiden – posted a series of messages on social media which really dug into the legendary game’s genesis and development. The always-excellent Shmuplations has…
Some PS5 players are even getting refunds. Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection has not launched in the best state. Indeed, while we heaped praise on the game for its excellent interactive documentary and wide selection of games in our 7/10 review, we noted that the online functionality is simply not up to scratch at the moment….
Including Dreamcast & Neo Geo AES/MVS. PixelHeart, the publisher behind retro games like Gladmort, Shadow Gangs Zero, and Chronicles of the Wolf, has announced it is planning to release a sequel to Visco’s single-screen Neo Geo platformer Bang Bang Busters. The sequel is crowdfunding now on Kickstarter, offering backers the chance to order a digital…
How is the blue blur doing? Sega has released updated sales figures for both Sonic Frontiers and Sonic Superstars as part of its integrated report for 2025. As we’d expected, Sonic Frontiers is ahead of Superstars, likely due in part to the simple fact that it released much sooner, but we also believe that folks…
Close to becoming Nintendo’s best-selling console of all time, though. Nintendo has just released sales figures for its consoles, and the headline news is that the Switch, which launched back in 2017, is within touching distance of overtaking the Nintendo DS as the company’s most successful console of all time. As reported by our friends…
Plus a brief look at, uh… two Switch 2 games. As part of Nintendo’s latest financial release, the company has provided an updated look at the top ten best-selling Switch games – plus a brief look at where things stand with the Switch 2. All in all, there’s not a whole lot to report on…