“The main goal of the new approach is to balance accuracy with practical performance on Android”. The Sega Saturn emulator Yaba Sanshiro has taken a big leap forward thanks to a new rendering technique that allows it to overcome one of the console’s biggest quirks. As you may (or may not) be aware, the Saturn’s…
This could have safely guessed that Tetris (Alexey Pajitnov, 1988) would appear in our list of The 50 Most Influential Video Games Ever. There’s a simple reason for this… Tetris is the single greatest video game ever created… No caveats. No clarifications. No exceptions. No qualifiers. Tetris is objectively the finest video game ever made…….
“What could we possibly be working on?”. Piko Interactive has announced it has acquired the rights to two more titles released for the Taiwanese console, the Super A’Can: Kingformation’s Dragon Force – Light Saga (1996), and Horng Shen’s Rebel (1996). This now means the company owns 7 of the 12 games officially released for the…
Remember Oblivion’s wheel system for grinding NPC disposition? You probably do, since a very popular remastered version of that game came out a single year ago. But if not then, well, you Skyrim kids don’t know what you’re missing. Where the most recent Elder Scrolls (the one that’s 15 years old), only let you affect…
“Tune your trigger, fire faster,” says Keychron about its upcoming magnetic-optical hybrid mouse switch, in words that ring very familiar in the wake of the Logitech G Pro X2 Superstrike. And I’m kind of shocked at just how soon after the launch of the Superstrike’s magnetic switches we’re seeing a hybrid version that allows you…
I’ve never been much of an artist, but when I first saw Drawquarium I thought to myself ‘how hard can drawing a fish really be?’ I now know that answer to that question and, as it turns out, it’s pretty darn difficult. Drawquarium is simple: you draw different fish and plants to fill your aquarium…
Drop the “My”. It’s cleaner. Nintendo has announced that the My Nintendo Store is getting a name change in a bunch of regions later this month — but fear not, it isn’t all that drastic. From 27th May, the My Nintendo Store will officially be known as… Nintendo Store. Yes, the ‘My’ is taking a…
“Leave behind something useful to humanity when you’re gone”. The team behind the excellent open-source PS3 emulator RPCS3 has been forced to update its guidelines for submitting AI-generated code after being inundated with time-wasting “vibe coded” pull requests. “Please stop submitting AI slop code pull requests to RPCS3,” says the team on social media. “We…
Great expectations. It’s a new week, and following Nintendo’s financial release last Friday, the company’s share price has expectedly dropped in light of the price hike announcement for Switch 2. At the time of writing, Nintendo’s share price is now sitting at ¥7,020, a drop of 8.44% since Friday and the company’s lowest valuation since…
“Whilst this is not the situation which most of us wished for, it is nonetheless the current situation”. If you’re an old fogie like me, then you’ll be aware of Digital Press. One of the earliest sites to truly celebrate and catalogue gaming’s history – both past and present – Digital Press was founded back…