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Team includes Fable composer Russell Shaw & two of Media Molecule’s founders. At last night’s Gamescom Opening Night Live event, the divisive game developer Peter Molyneux joined Geoff Keighley on stage to announce Masters of Albion — a new god game from his studio 22cans. Read the full article on timeextension.com Team includes Fable composer…
Complete with laser sight! We’ve already covered Dreamware’s excellent VM2 and DreamConn S peripherals for the Sega Dreamcast, but there’s one other product the company has produced which we’ve not touched upon, and that’s the LightConn light gun. In its current form, the LightConn is effectively an upgraded OEM Dreamcast light gun, which uses Bluetooth…
With the MLB offseason in full swing, Old School Gamer’s Patrick Hickey Jr. counts down the most influential baseball video games of all time. Encompassing nearly 40 years of video game history, America’s pastime has a rich legacy in video games. 10: Little League Baseball: A little-known game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Little League…
Kenneth W. Arnold reflects on his work on the groundbreaking RPG series. When it comes to discussing the history of the computer role-playing genre in the US, there are several names that repeatedly come up; some of the most notable being Richard Garriott, the creator of Ultima, and the Wizardry creators, Robert Woodhead and Andrew…
Noodle dash! We’ve already covered Delisoba Deluxe, the rarest Sega Saturn game which is worth around $8,000 – and we’re now pleased to report that an English translation now exists for this unique racer. Developed by Cave and based on a trial event within TBS’s mid-1990s Japanese game show, Tokyo Friend Park, it tasks you…
“No fish were harmed in the making of About Fishing”. SEGA Bass Fishing and Shenmue were stablemates on the Dreamcast, and now they’re getting a tribute game by the name of About Fishing. Developed by The Water Museum, About Fishing is described as “a fishing mystery game that blends the calm, meditative rhythm of fishing…
Features numerous ‘Quality of Life’ improvements. One of the significant consequences of the collapse of the Sony and Nintendo hardware partnership in the ’90s was the ill-fated Philips CD-i multimedia system receiving a selection of Nintendo-sanctioned titles, including Zelda: Faces of Evil, Zelda: Wand of Gamelon, and Hotel Mario. The CD-i also got 1996’s Zelda’s…
60fps! High res visuals! The same 3/10 gameplay! Quest 64 was subjected to some lukewarm reviews when it first launched on the N64 back in the ’90s, which is surprising when you consider how starved Nintendo fans were for RPGs at that time. Known as Holy Magic Century in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand and…
Will contain new interviews with the people who made it happen. Nicola and Anthony Caulfield, the creative duo behind Bedrooms To Billions and The Rubber Keyed Wonder, are about to launch a crowdfunding campaign for their next documentary – this time focused solely on the Commodore 64 home computer. The Commodore 64: The Birth of…
“Honors the original Taito spirit while enhancing it with a modern artistic direction”. Commodore Industries (the Italian one, not the one which just resurrected the C64) has revealed that its official remake of Taito’s 1988 coin-op platformer The NewZealand Story launches on Steam next month. The company – which is currently embroiled in a legal…