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“Smooth, moisturised, and ready for your next mission”. Given that Naked Snake has to crawl through some pretty fetid conditions during the events of Metal Gear Solid Delta, I’m not entirely sure I’d want to stand near him in a confined space – or have his scent rubbed all over my pale, chubby dad-bod in…
A Switch 2 version is also coming next year. Fresh from releasing its remaster of LucasArts’ Western-themed shooter Outlaws, Nightdive Studios is back today with another remaster of a classic ’90s PC game in Blood Refreshed Supply — a newly updated version of Monolith Productions’s 1997 first-person shooter Blood about an undead gunslinger on a…
“Uridium and Paradroid combined with extraction shooter and roguelite elements”. While floppy disks may not have been the best storage medium when it comes to longevity and memory, there’s undoubtedly something very nostalgic about them – if you grew up in the late ’80s and early ’90s, at least. Industry vets Andrew and Rob Hewson…
“This is one case where l did something smart that did work out”. Ever wonder why Electronic Arts games on the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis came on different cartridges with those massive yellow tabs? It’s because EA was brave enough to challenge Sega’s licensing terms, but it was still a huge gamble – as…
Banjo Kazooie: Mumbomania is out now in Dreams. Fans have been crying out for a new Banjo-Kazooie game ever since Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts was released in 2008. But apart from a strange audience-controlled interactive demo at SXSW in 2015, the occasional merch drop, and a playable cameo in Smash back in 2019, there hasn’t…
Paleto Jones 2, The Mandarin 2, Black Sea, The Mandarin 2, and many others were all created by Mananuk. A developer that likes creating different gaming styles on a multitude of systems, such as the Amstrad and ZX Spectrum. Well fast forward to today and as a double bonanza, he’s released a new action game…
Famitsu is teasing a Taito Milestones livestream for next week. It’s been a while since we’ve heard an update on the Taito Milestones series of retro compilations, with the last collection in the series, Taito Milestones 3, having been released all the way back in the final months of 2024. But now, it looks as…
“The deals they were offering just made absolutely no sense to me to go do this”. When Ron Gilbert revealed his upcoming rogue-like RPG Death By Scrolling at Gamescom Opening Night Live earlier this year, we have to say we were a little confused. Prior to the announcement, the Monkey Island creator had previously teased…
The document is believed to belong to Sakaguchi’s 1984 ADV ‘The Death Trap’. Hironobu Sakaguchi, the legendary creator of Final Fantasy, has been doing some “decluttering” recently and has come across something pretty fascinating in the process: his first-ever written video game proposal. As a result, he has since taken to Twitter/X to share the…
SNK’s ‘Bermuda Triangle’ arrives tomorrow. Building off last week’s Arcade Archives reissue of Video System’s 1991 beat ’em up Karate Blazers, Hamster has announced plans to release another arcade curiosity across modern consoles. This time, it’s the turn of SNK’s 1987 time-travelling shoot-’em-up, Bermuda Triangle, which will be released on Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2,…