Games get remade for all sorts of reasons, but I think you’d struggle to find one with as heartwarming a basis as this. The Battle of Olympus—a side-scrolling platformer originally released on the NES in 1988, is getting a remake early next year created by its original husband-and-wife team. Admittedly, that statement is slightly misleading….
Released in 1994 by Atari Games, Primal Rage emerged during one of the most competitive eras in arcade gaming history. Fighting games dominated arcades in the early-to-mid 1990s, fueled by the massive success of titles like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter II. Into this crowded arena stepped a bold and unusual contender, one that replaced…
Frogbull has released yet another “alternate reality” project. The homebrew developer Frogbull has brought us some bizarre crossovers over the past few years: from creating playable versions of PlayStation classics like Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy VII, and Crash Bandicoot for the Sega Saturn to showing off a Nintendo 64 edition of Spyro the Dragon….
State of Play returns Thursday, September 3 with two broadcasts airing back-to-back. First, tune in for a new State of Play featuring updates and announcements from PlayStation Studios and our third-party partners, concluding with an extended look at the vast world of Final Fantasy VII Revelation from our friends at Square Enix. Immediately following, stay…
PS2 emulation just took another leap forward. We have good news for PCSX2 fans — a brand-new update has just dropped for the popular PS2 emulator, bringing with it a bunch of great improvements, from “serious performance gains” to support for new input devices, UI improvements, and more. As always, full details on what’s been…
On Saturday, information began circulating online about a massive, 12-terabyte leak of Valve data that included prototypes of numerous classic Valve games. But it seems what is now being dubbed the “teraleak” contained far more than just old builds of Portal 2 and possible weapons from Half-Life 2: Episode 3, and may include prototypes of…
Prettyyy, prettyyy, prettyyy, pretty good. Note. We’re still working on our review of the overall MGS Master Collection Vol. 2 package – keep an eye out for our verdict soon. Reviewing Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots in 2026 is a tough proposition. Even back in 2008, its lengthy cutscenes were considered excessive…
Songbird Productions unveils the ‘Zool Collection’, two Zool games on a single cartridge. When 2025 came to an end, we had no idea just how many times the gremlin ninja Zool would end up popping into our news tips over the eight months that have followed. Since 2026 began, we’ve had 33 Games’ reissues of…
There was surprise and delight when Summer Game Fest brought the reveal of 1666: Amsterdam, the long awaited dream project from Assassin’s Creed co-creator Patrice Désilets. But the mood quickly changed when eager players began exploring a playable prologue for the witchy action-adventure that was released alongside the announcement and began spotting in-game assets that…
Lookin’ good! Our video producer Alex recently jetted off to Gamecom and, as intended, played a whole bunch of games. One of these was the upcoming Switch 2 port of 007 First Light, which is making its way to the console later this year. The above video contains over-the-shoulder footage of the game running on…