“The first static recompilation of a Wii game”. Last week brought the announcement of the “first static recompilation of a Wii game” — Mario Kart Wiicompiled — generating a lot of buzz and excitement across social media, as well as enthusiastic headlines across a ton of different gaming and tech websites. However, something worth noting…
“One of the best Gradius clones I’ve ever played”. Doujin shmup Spolous has a sequel, and it’s free to download. As spotted by Crypticus on social media, Spolous II is a side-scrolling 2.5D shooter with music by Naoya Kamisaka. The visuals hint at a fusion of Konami’s Gradius and Techno Soft’s Thunder Force, which is…
Oof… Big oof. When Sony recently announced it would be ending the production of physical media for the PS5 (and presumably the PS6) from January 2028, the gaming community was quite rightly up in arms. Yet despite the ongoing backlash, the actual data indicating how poorly physical media sells these days doesn’t lie. And it’s…
Nvidia announced DLSS 5 back in March and it received, let’s say, mixed reactions. A lot of people weren’t happy about how, judging by the demos, it seemed to essentially just slap a ‘yassifying’ AI filter on top of a game scene. Nvidia itself confirmed that all the tech has to work with for each…
Where there’s a Quill, there’s a way. When I first played Moss on PSVR in 2018, it was the game that truly sold me on virtual reality. Here was an adventure with the ambition and polish of a console release that used VR to draw the player into its world in a genuinely compelling way….
Quintet’s ‘Brightis’ has a fan translation, but, of course, there’s a catch. It seems to be an increasingly common thing in the retro space lately to see an exciting announcement, only to find out that there was some hidden catch that you weren’t originally aware of, hiding just a few clicks away. Case in point…
A security engineer has “ported” one of the best known password recovery utilities to the GameBoy Advance. The port is based on Hashcat, a password recovery utility that otherwise pitches itself as the “world’s fastest.” But I’m doing the bunny ears around ‘ported’ because even the developer admits this is “not really” Hashcat in full….
Is that a Game Boy in your pocket? The Game Boy Pocket turns 30 today. It launched in Japan on July 21th, 1996. It would arrive in the US on September 2nd, 1996. The first revision of Nintendo’s insanely successful Game Boy handheld, the Game Boy Pocket, launched months after Pocket Monster fever had gripped…
Customers received what they “bargained for”. Back in April, it emerged that two gamers in the U.S. filed a lawsuit against Nintendo, claiming that the company had an obligation to refund customers after it was deemed that tariffs affecting prices were actually illegal. Nintendo raised prices for the original Switch along with a bunch of…
“Would there be any human soul in what was created?”. Indie developer Mauro Xavier made headlines a while back for his amazing unofficial port of Capcom’s Final Fight for the Mega Drive / Genesis before making waves of a different kind by revealing he was using GenAI to create the music for one of his…