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“Our games were treated like first-party games”. As co-founder of Factor 5, Julian Eggebrecht had a front-row seat to all of the studio’s biggest moments, from its earliest days, through the N64 era and beyond. His time with the studio put him at the centre of development efforts that would produce some of the Nintendo…
“Take THAT, VRC2!”. ROM hacker @infidelity_nes has ported the Famicom version of Contra to the SNES. The talented hacker has already performed the same trick with Mega Man and Metroid. Read the full article on timeextension.com “Take THAT, VRC2!”. ROM hacker @infidelity_nes has ported the Famicom version of Contra to the SNES. The talented hacker…
While many of you are still waiting for Neeso Games Arcade platformer of ‘Super Delivery Boy’: A game which is due for release at some point in the near future. There’s another game you should be keep an eye on as developments progress, and that’s Vigilante: A game that was released sometime back as a…
“Another well placed Jim Ryan lie”. PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan is parting company with Sony, and he’s leaving on a commercial high – PS5 is selling like cakes that are exceedingly hot, after all. However, Ryan dropped a bombshell during one of his last interviews as CEO, claiming that PS2 has sold 160 million units…
Might come to Switch and other consoles, too. It’s not just the Mega Drive, Game Boy and SNES which are getting new releases these days – the humble NES is also getting in on the action. Indie developer Somethin Nerdy Studios is currently working on a new RPG called Former Dawn, and has been showing…
“In order to finish this game, we truly need more help and a more refined focus.”. If you’re at all familiar with the TimeSplitters fandom, you’ve probably come across TimeSplitters Rewind at one stage or another. The ambitious (multiplayer-only) PC remake of the original games has been in development since 2013, gradually evolving from a…
Coming to Kickstarter soon. Indie developer PSCD Games is working on an action title for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive called Cyber Mission, and it’s looking very promising indeed. A side-scrolling shmup in which you control a flying solder, it reminds us a little of Capcom’s Forgotten Worlds, which is certainly no bad thing…
Wonder Boy! Choplifter! Sega Ninja! Sega’s System 1 (1983) and System 2 (1985) arcade hardware is coming to the Analogue Pocket, we can reveal. A new OpenFPGA core by Boogermann / marcusjordan is in development and will be released shortly, according to Pixel Cherry Ninja. Read the full article on timeextension.com Wonder Boy! Choplifter! Sega…
The Miyoo Mini Flip has some competition. We’re already getting an emulation-based GBA clone in the form of the Miyoo Mini Flip, but rival firm Anbernic is preparing its own device with the same form factor. The RG35XX SP has leaked in a short video on social media and clearly takes inspiration from Nintendo’s popular…
The March ’99 announcement of the upcoming PlayStation 2 console instantly triggered a mental countdown timer for me. I knew I had to keep my finger on the proverbial pulse to ensure I could reserve one at my local EB Games store. I asked the store’s team to keep me abreast of when the PlayStation…