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Kaisoku! Sparrows!! was developed before UPL filed for bankruptcy in ’92. New footage of an unreleased and unfinished shmup from the defunct Japanese developer UPL has appeared online (as spotted by Gosokkyu). UPL was a company that primarily made games for the arcades. That includes titles such as Mouser, Ninja-kun: Adventure of Devil Castle, Atomic…

Maybe Clare Redfield was busy? The wild and wacky world of free-to-play smartphone gaming has given us some unexpected crossovers, but this latest one takes the biscuit, we have to say. Doomsday: Last Survivors is described as “a zombie survival game with multiplayer online competition and real-time strategy elements” that is “set in a near…

Good-Feel’s Etsunobu Ebisu is back in the director’s chair. Princess Peach: Showtime! has just launched on Switch, and the credits have thrown up a surprising fact – the game marks the directorial return of Etsunobu Ebisu, who last fulfilled that particular role on 1997’s Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon (thanks, Tokyo Game Life). Ebisu started his…

“My tribute to the PlayStation 1 memory card”. Memory cards are a thing of the past these days, but once upon a time, they were an essential part of gaming. If you wanted to move your saves between machines or simply take your favourite custom character to a friend’s house to play on their console,…

About This Episode We head to the theatres to see a new comedy/horror film that would feel right at home in the ’80s, check out some tech that delivers crystal-clear free content to your fancy Smart TV, and dive into the latest from the Life is Strange franchise where your superpower is psychic empathy! Patreon…

Sunny-side up. It’s now possible to create a 3D-printed replica of the ‘Gun Del Sol’ firearm from the GBA title Boktai: The Sun Is in Your Hand. What a time to be alive! Released in 2003, Boktai’s hook was that its cartridge contained a photometric light sensor, which would measure light in order to recharge…

“No more epoxy blues!”. We love the Sega Saturn here at Time Extension. Sure, it may have come dead last in the console war with PS1 and N64, but it’s home to some truly amazing games, including Guardian Heroes, Panzer Dragoon Saga, SEGA Rally, Princess Crown, X-Men Vs. Street Fighter and many, many more. As…

Releasing April 25th in Japan. ZUIKI has announced that it is now accepting pre-orders for a new pack for the X68000 Z featuring the Wolf Team titles Granada and FZ Senki Axis. The company revealed back in June of last year that it had made an agreement to bring Wolf Team games to the micro-console…

“Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste”. Christian Bale is famous for many things today. He’s played Batman, for starters – and was also John Connor at one point in the Terminator franchise. His portrayal of the unhinged, Phil Collins-loving Patrick Bateman in American Psycho has become the stuff of…