We hope you like walls of endless text. Gaming often takes itself entirely too seriously. There aren’t enough games that embrace ridiculous, silly ideas and run with them without coming across as shallow and one-note. Mugen Souls Z half succeeds at this; its opening scene includes a spaceship transforming into a giant robot for an…
“This is a huge undertaking”. A group of fans are porting Midway’s Mortal Kombat II to the 3DO, it has been revealed (thanks, St1ka). Released in arcades at the close of 1993, the game was ported to the popular home formats of the time, including the SNES, Genesis, Amiga, Master System and even the Game…
Phanteks has responded to a lawsuit filed by rival peripheral maker Lian Li over alleged copyright infringement. Lian Li holds that Phanteks infringed on its patent for daisy-chaining multiple PC fans together with its D30 fans, which Phanteks has since denied. Phanteks says it expects “this legal matter will confirm there is no infringement.” “We…
Early backers get their hands on the portable MSX. Update #3 (Thu 14th Sep, 2023 11:15 BST): The MSX0 is now out in the wild, with early backers in Japan finally getting their hands on the portable MSX. In the past, Kazuhiko Nishi has expressed interest in a separate crowdfund for countries including Brazil, Spain,…
Part of the same series as Cybernator on the SNES. The next entry in the ‘Saturn Tribute’ series will be 1997’s Assault Suit Leynos 2, publisher City Connection has revealed. Developed by NCS, the game is a direct sequel to the Genesis / Mega Drive game Assault Suit Leynos, which was released in the West…
From bullet hell to rhythm heaven. If you’re anything like us, then Poncle’s brilliantly addictive Vampire Survivors has probably taken up a fair amount of your time since it was released last month. Many of the tension-rising tunes from the game’s soundtrack are probably firmly stuck in your head by this point (we know that…
Heading to PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Switch & PC. As spotted by Gematsu, it appears the Dreamcast rail shooter Rainbow Cotton is finally getting a Western launch, with ININ Games announcing it will release a remaster of the original in Spring 2024 for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Rainbow Cotton came out…
We’ve been recommending the NeueChair as the best office/task chair for years, even since before I joined as overlord of PC Gamer’s hardware coverage. As I’d not had the privilege of trying out the chair for myself, however, I wanted to make sure that it was a recommendation I could stand behind. But I’m not…
AMD has itself a strong competitor on its hands with the Radeon RX 7800 XT. In fact at its current base price of $499 / £480 / AU$879, it makes the RTX 4070 look pretty pricey. For review I have the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 7800 XT. I can safely say it’s faster, cooler, and…
1997 “tell all” document is getting translated. Donkey Kong is one of the most important games in Nintendo’s history for many reasons. It gave us both the titular character and Mario, the latter of which would become the company’s mascot. Secondly, it highlighted the talents of one Shigeru Miyamoto, arguably Nintendo’s most significant employee. Thirdly,…