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Love-de-Lic’s ‘UFO’ is also coming to Console Archives. Konami’s military-themed events game, Combat School (also known as Boot Camp in the States), has been unveiled as this week’s Arcade Archives release. So, if your idea of fun is arm wrestling matches, iron man races, trips to the firing range, or getting yelled at by a…
“Enter the vector battlefield…”. We’ve known since late last year that Numskull Design were planning to turn Atari’s revolutionary “3D” arcade cabinet, Battlezone, into a 1/4-scale machine as part of its Quarter Arcades series. However, something that almost completely slipped past us was that pre-orders actually open up later this week, on August 7th, 2026….
Time to get excited. Japanese “collaborative fashion” company SuperGroupies has produced a trio of watches based on classic Sega hardware (thanks, Famitsu). The line includes watches inspired by the Mega Drive, Saturn and Dreamcast, with each model boasting a design that replicates elements of its respective console’s controller. The packaging is also designed to mimic…
A donation to a charity of your choosing is encouraged, though. I wasn’t alive during the ZX Spectrum’s heyday; regardless, that hasn’t stopped me from developing an appreciation for the iconic ’80s microcomputer. Read the full article on timeextension.com A donation to a charity of your choosing is encouraged, though. I wasn’t alive during the…
Disc-cuss. I’m sure I don’t need to make you aware of physical media’s continued decline within the world of gaming. Most players now purchase their games digitally, and hardware manufacturers are even going as far as to pull support for discs in their current and future consoles as a result of this dramatic shift in…
And public testing has already started. Support for the 1993 rail shooter Star Wars: Rebel Assault and its 1995 sequel Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire is coming to ScummVM, as revealed in a recent post on Twitter/X. Per the announcement, both games are currently supported as part of a public test in…
You couldn’t mech it up. Compile’s PC Engine CD side-scrolling shmup Spriggan Mark 2: Re-Terraform Project has been translated into English by naju. The patch subtitles the voiced cutscenes and “fully translates the in-game dialogue, menus, descriptions, and any other text.” Read the full article on timeextension.com You couldn’t mech it up. Compile’s PC Engine…
Things are coming together. If you’ve been following the saga of Commodore and its Amiga computer over the decades, then you’ll be aware it’s a right old mess, as the rights to the company’s IP were carved up when it went bust back in the ’90s. However, a pair of new deals have just been…
Anyone remember Ubi Soft’s ‘POD’? As much as I love the LucasArts racing game Star Wars Episode 1: Racer, there’s one thing that has always bugged me about it: the name. This may be a personal preference at work, but it always sounded a little clunky to me, on account of the developers lobbing off…
“No generative AI or LLMs have touched any part of this translation”. The original Super Famicom version of Chunsoft’s highly influential “sound novel” Kamaitachi no Yoru has just received a fan translation, allowing players to experience it in English for the very first time. Released in 1994, Kamaitachi no Yoru was the second sound novel…