Demonic sci-fi RPG Illusion City is one of those timeless pixel art games that still looks incredible in GIFs 34 years later

Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Seven floppy disks. Seven. Seven. Illusion City (Image credit: Micro Cabin) Dev: Micro Cabin Released: 1991 PCs: PC-98, MSX Turbo R, PC-88VA, X68000, FM-Towns That’s a lot…

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Helldivers 2 players celebrate victory over Sony as the ‘review bomb’ cape finally appears in the game: ‘We won the biggest and longest running Major Order in the game to date’

Helldivers 2 has, generally speaking, been a massive success for Arrowhead Game Studios and publisher Sony. But it did have one early and notable misstep. Shortly after release Sony made a PSN account a requirement to play, and removed Helldivers 2 from sale in 177 countries and territories that didn’t have access to PSN: sparking…

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Razer Joro & Basilisk Mobile review

Gaming on the go has become big business in recent years, but lugging around your full-size mechanical keyboard and chunky gaming mouse isn’t the most practical way to do it. Razer reckons it’s found the answer in the form of the Joro keyboard and Basilisk Mobile mouse, but I’ve got some serious reservations about both…

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Glorious Model O Eternal review

The Glorious Model O Eternal is a mouse that might not be designed as an ultra-premium mousing machine, but instead as a respectable, wired ultralight choice that provides some serious value from a trusted brand and model in the space. The OG Model O launched back in 2019, when ultralight gaming mice first exploded in…

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‘We were super confident in third-person’: Overwatch 2 Stadium devs love the new perspective but understand it’s not to everyone’s liking, ‘A decade of muscle memory exists’

One of the most jarring changes that Stadium brought to Overwatch 2 was the introduction of a third-person perspective. For the last nine years, Overwatch has just been an FPS, but in the spirit of making changes we got the option to either go first or third-person when playing Stadium. From what I’ve encountered, third-person…

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