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“He chopped the floppies up into little pieces”. 1993’s Star Wars: X-Wing is arguably one of the best adaptions of George Lucas’ famous sci-fi series. Using what were then considered to be cutting-edge 3D visuals, it placed the player in the cockpit of the iconic T-65B space fighter and tasked them with taking down the…
“I believe I still have a lot to learn”. On Sunday, 31 March 2024, the legendary Tomohiro Nishikado celebrates his 80th birthday, and to honour this occasion, the Japanese Game Preservation Society is inducting him as an honorary member. Every single person reading this page has been touched by the legacy of Nishikado-sensei. While his…
Karate Champ beta also released. FPGA developer Jotego has resumed the development of his Namco System 1 core and has added support for the 1987 title Galaga ’88. “On the core development side, the focus is on closing the open betas,” he says on his latest Patreon update. “JTSHOUSE is one of them. We have…
“Our games were treated like first-party games”. As co-founder of Factor 5, Julian Eggebrecht had a front-row seat to all of the studio’s biggest moments, from its earliest days, through the N64 era and beyond. His time with the studio put him at the centre of development efforts that would produce some of the Nintendo…
“Take THAT, VRC2!”. ROM hacker @infidelity_nes has ported the Famicom version of Contra to the SNES. The talented hacker has already performed the same trick with Mega Man and Metroid. Read the full article on timeextension.com “Take THAT, VRC2!”. ROM hacker @infidelity_nes has ported the Famicom version of Contra to the SNES. The talented hacker…
While many of you are still waiting for Neeso Games Arcade platformer of ‘Super Delivery Boy’: A game which is due for release at some point in the near future. There’s another game you should be keep an eye on as developments progress, and that’s Vigilante: A game that was released sometime back as a…
“Another well placed Jim Ryan lie”. PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan is parting company with Sony, and he’s leaving on a commercial high – PS5 is selling like cakes that are exceedingly hot, after all. However, Ryan dropped a bombshell during one of his last interviews as CEO, claiming that PS2 has sold 160 million units…
Might come to Switch and other consoles, too. It’s not just the Mega Drive, Game Boy and SNES which are getting new releases these days – the humble NES is also getting in on the action. Indie developer Somethin Nerdy Studios is currently working on a new RPG called Former Dawn, and has been showing…
“In order to finish this game, we truly need more help and a more refined focus.”. If you’re at all familiar with the TimeSplitters fandom, you’ve probably come across TimeSplitters Rewind at one stage or another. The ambitious (multiplayer-only) PC remake of the original games has been in development since 2013, gradually evolving from a…
Coming to Kickstarter soon. Indie developer PSCD Games is working on an action title for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive called Cyber Mission, and it’s looking very promising indeed. A side-scrolling shmup in which you control a flying solder, it reminds us a little of Capcom’s Forgotten Worlds, which is certainly no bad thing…