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Defectors! (NES) and Warrior of Rome III (SNES) never saw release back in the day. Piko Interactive has announced that it has secured the rights to two cancelled games from defunct developer Equilibrium. The two games are Defectors! (NES) and Warrior of Rome III (SNES). Read the full article on timeextension.com Defectors! (NES) and Warrior…

Way back in 1982, Coreland published by Sega released the Arcade game of ‘Pengo’, A maze like game in which playing as a penguin, you must survive each round by eliminating all Sno-Bees and Sno-Bee eggs with sliding blocks, while optionally lining up the three diamond blocks for a large bonus. Well today’s news is…

Brave Wave Productions broke the news of Masashi Kageyama’s passing earlier today. Masashi Kageyama, the Japanese musician and composer behind the music to the Famicom/NES platformer Gimmick, has sadly passed away at the age of 62, following a battle with stomach cancer. Brave Wave Productions, a record company that had recently been working with Kageyama…

“Hard to believe”. Japanese publication denfaminicogamer.jp recently interviewed the heads of two of France’s leading game development studios, and one surprising element ties them together – they didn’t play Nintendo growing up. Guillaume Broch (CEO and creative director of Sandfall Interactive, the developer of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33) and Ben Fiquet (CEO and art/creative director…

Including Maximum Surge, Prize Fighter, and Slam City With Scottie Pippin. Limited Run Games’ CEO Josh Fairhurst has personally obtained the rights to several old FMV games, originally created by the Night Trap developer Digital Pictures. The news was shared on September 5th, with William Mesa, the founder of Flash Film Works (the Visual Effects…

The Dream Color Plus will be shown off this month. It’s a pretty exciting time to be a Dreamcast fan. The console is getting some serious attention when it comes to accessories, such as the Octopus Fight Stick, D6 controller and not one but two new ‘next gen’ VMUs. It yurns out we might also…

Penned by GamesIndustry.biz veteran James Batchelor. Author and former GamesIndustry.biz scribe James Batchelor has just announced that he’s written an unofficial history of the Pokémon video game franchise, and it’s coming out early next year. Published by White Owl Books, The History of the Pokémon Games will profile over 150 different games and will feature…

“It’s bizarre that Musk would not recognise where he sits in the Deus Ex universe”. The co-writer of the original Deus Ex has indulged in a pretty sizeable rant about the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, and pointed out his discomfort at the fact that Musk considers the game to be one of his favourites….

“The simulator had to be realistic but also drivable”. In the games industry, there are names which have been around for so long they feel like part of the furniture: Shigeru Miyamoto, Peter Molyneux, Sid Meier, Warren Spector – these are individuals who have remained part of the gaming conversation for decades and continue to…