Update: Now on Kickstarter. It warms our hearts here at Time Extension to see so many side-scrolling fighters getting made in recent years. We grew up at a time when this genre was arguably one of the biggest in the world of games thanks to the success of Double Dragon, Golden Axe, Final Fight and…
It was a big day in the Wolens household (which consists of me, Wolens) when Beamdog suddenly released a surprise 2.7 beta patch for its collection of enhanced Infinity Engine games. It wasn’t anything earthshaking—Apple Silicon support for those of us playing on our Macs, some additional languages and whatnot—but it was a nice surprise,…
Launching this Autumn. Drinkbox Studios, the celebrated developer behind the likes of Guacamelee!, Severed, and Nobody Saves The World, has announced that its upcoming title Blighted will be heading to the Switch 2. Currently scheduled to launch in Autumn, Blighted is a Hades-inspired action game with an isometric viewpoint and lots of vicious enemies to…
The new fan translation is based on the Spanish translation from 2021. Fans of Japanese horror can now play one of the PS2’s creepier and more unusual survival horror games in English, thanks to a new translation patch from the hacker DrewM-Hax0r. The Tairyou Jigoku (otherwise known as The Overwhelming Hell) was a game developed…
Need to know What is it? A cyberpunk strategy RPG you can shape as a sentient AGI Release date March 6, 2026 Expect to pay $30/£25 Developer Arcen Games Publisher Hooded Horse Reviewed on Ryzen 7 3700X, RTX 4070 Super, 32 GB RAM Steam Deck Playable It’s difficult to imagine a world in which AI…
Roguelink. Imagine if, after a hard day’s work dispatching Bokoblins, Link returned home and ran a little shop. That was the proposition put forward by Digital Sun and 11 Bit Studios back in 2018’s Moonlighter, and its sequel promises to be more of the same. Moonlighter 2: The Endless Vault launched on other platforms at…
Sweet! More coins! Riding the cult success of Edgar Wright’s cinematic adaptation while keeping the aesthetic and charm of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s source material, Ubisoft’s Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World game was a smash hit at launch. This gloriously retro co-op brawler still holds up today; its 16-bit charms remain well worth your time, especially…
Marathon‘s four-day Server Slam concluded yesterday, and Bungie’s been scouring over all the feedback it’s received (and some interesting player-driven statistics, like how many bottles of alien milk you pinched from Tau Ceti). Given it’s only a few days until launch, there’s not much time to make changes ahead of release, but Bungie is considering…
Get it? Like Blueprints? One of the most praised puzzlers of last year, Blue Prince, is making its way to Switch 2 today. Yes, that’s right, today. For those who missed out on this one, Blue Prince is a puzzle roguelike ‘metroidbrania’, that tasks you with cracking the mysteries of Mt Holly — an estate…
The subject of AI being used to replace voice actors has been a recurring theme in videogames, with the debate reaching a pinnacle last October when Arc Raiders was released, as it was made clear that Embark Studios used AI to pad out voice lines. Since then, we’ve heard arguments as to why this isn’t…