Colour me surprised. Like many gamers of ‘advanced’ age, I’ve played a lot of Konami games over the years – perhaps most notably during the early ’90s, when the Japanese company was one of the most renowned names in the industry. Konami released numerous classic games on the SNES, Mega Drive/Genesis, NES, and PC Engine,…
For those who are just joining us, memory pricing has turned apocalyptic. Case in point, Framework announced it would be raising the price of its DDR5 memory modules for its laptops by 50% to account for the spiking costs the modular laptop brand is seeing from memory distributors and suppliers. That’s not even the wildest…
Feline cosy. If you’re after something cute and cosy to curl up with this Christmas, you may need to look no further than Stars In The Trash, a new cat platformer (catformer?) that looks like it’s walked straight out of Disney’s classic back catalogue. Animated by a team of artists who have previously worked for…
Melatonin releases on Nintendo Switch™ in physical format on 11th December! SRG Store (NEW WEB) Super Rare Games is joining Half Asleep to bring you Melatonin! Coming exclusively to Nintendo Switch™ in physical format! Melatonin is a rhythm game about dreams and reality merging together. It uses animations and sound cues to keep you on beat without any intimidating overlays or interfaces. Harmonise…
“He’s done it again”. For many gamers in their 30s and 40s, the timeline of video game history shifted at the turn of the millennium when Sega transitioned from a hardware maker to a third-party publisher. The Japanese company had been Nintendo’s rival since the 1980s, and attracted legions of fans thanks to its beloved…
Takaya Imamura is the designer of Fox McCloud, Tingle, and Captain Falcon. As you may already be aware, Capcom recently announced what it is calling the 12th official entry in the Mega Man series, Mega Man: Dual Override, and, to celebrate, it is currently hosting a robot masters design competition over on Twitter/X. This competition…
It’s still in beta, however. NES-to-SNES port master Infidelity has just made the first beta version of his Contra Force port available online. “The only thing that is missing are the orchestral DPCM samples for all the BGM tracks,” says the developer, who has an amazing track record when it comes to bringing 8-bit classics…
Guess who reclaimed pole position. We’ve got our latest look at the UK physical gaming charts and, rather expectedly, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond has taken quite the tumble from its bronze-medal debut last week. Samus’ latest now finds itself in 15th position, with the top 10 awash with Switch and Switch 2 titles as we…
JaJaMaru no Hyakki Yagyou Den was announced this past weekend. This weekend, City Connection put on a special event in Japan, called City Connection 20th Anniversary Thanks Fes, to celebrate the company’s 20th anniversary. At the event, the developer/publisher showed off development artwork from several Jaleco games, gave a look at the unreleased Famicom game…
As hardware reviews go, this one has probably been the most challenging one I’ve ever undertaken in my three decades of testing and rating PC hardware. Not because the product is incredibly complex or difficult to use; far from it, in fact. And not because it was a bug-ridden, early-release mess either. Indeed not, as…