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“It was a game that was truly outstanding in terms of sound design”. Nobuo Uematsu is one of the most acclaimed composers of video game music the world has yet known; his work on the Final Fantasy series is globally recognised, and with good reason. However, even Nobuo is humble enough to know when he’s…
“That’s why I’m very anti-AI right now”. We’re currently going through a period in tech history where AI is getting put inside pretty much every facet of modern life. Gen-AI is everywhere you look online, while manufacturers are falling over themselves to include AI in every appliance you could mention – whether it makes sense…
And it works on Steam Deck, too. The Lord of the Rings: Conquest, the final game from studio Pandemic before its closure in 2009, is back online thanks to the efforts of the modding community. Based on Pandemic’s Star Wars: Battlefront series, The Lord of the Rings: Conquest allows you to experience Tolkien’s high fantasy…
…plus a heck of a lot more. Analogue has just released firmware update 1.2.0 for its Analogue 3D FPGA system, and it comes with a wide selection of new features and improvements. You can read the full changelog below, but two of the more noteworthy additions are the ability to force progressive scan in games…
Available right now for as little as $319. If you’re familiar with AYANEO, you’ll know the Chinese company follows a very strict pattern for its hardware launches. First, there’s the tease; then, the announcement; and then, the crowdfunding campaign. This strategy has clearly worked well for AYANEO up to this point, as it has adopted…
It’s ‘All Japan Women’s Pro Wrestling Queen of Queens’. After years in the wilderness, NEC’s ill-fated PC-FX console is finally seeing some love from the fan-translation community. We’ve already seen launch title Team Innocent: The Point of No Return – G.C.P.O.SS get an English patch, and now it’s the turn of All Japan Women’s Pro…
XeGrader Plus announced. XeGrader, the “puzzle adventure shooter” from the Hydlide creator and current M2 employee Tokihiro Naito, is being released on Steam, with a demo set to release this June (thanks Gematsu). The Steam version of the game is called XeGrader Plus, and contains updated graphics and sound from the PC-8001mkII and MSX2 editions…
Sega’s epic JRPG is already semi-playable on Windows PCs. When you ask RPG fans what game they’d love to see come to modern-day platforms, many of them are going to give Panzer Dragoon Saga as their reply. Released exclusively on the Sega Saturn back in 1998, this sprawling epic is considered one of the best…
Super Storm Buster will feature “a very high number of projectiles” & huge bosses. A new 16-bit sci-fi-themed shoot’em up is coming to the Super Nintendo, courtesy of the team at PixelHeart. Super Storm Buster is a vertically-scrolling shmup with a “dark science-fiction atmosphere”. It is described as a project that stays “true to the…
The GTA clone could be coming to Sega’s console. Modder maximqad / craf7y24 is porting The Simpsons: Hit & Run to the Sega Dreamcast, it has been reported. The modder has previously ported Half-Life Deathmatch and Counter-Strike to Sega’s console and clearly knows the hardware well. Read the full article on timeextension.com The GTA clone…