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New Panic’s Playdate Update also coming soon. Playdate maker Panic has revealed that it has successfully shipped 70,000 units of the adorable yellow handheld – and it has a limit amount of stock ready to ship right now. “After a lot of hard work and logistics, Panic is thrilled to announce that they have caught…
Help us crown the king of kings. Established all the way back in 1994 – that’s 30 years ago this year – SNK’s King of Fighters series may not have the same global recognition as Capcom’s Street Fighter franchise, but it is regarded by many as the greatest one-on-one fighting game series of all time….
Video Games with a scoring system have been around for a very long time. In fact, Guinness World Records lists 1976’s Sea Wolf as the first video game to record scores. This means that the idea of a high score in a video game was around before I was even born, and about nine years…
Coming to Nintendo Switch in Japan on February 29th. Pixel Co. Ltd, the Japanese game developer, retro store, and event company, has just released a new Famicom-inspired vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up over on Steam (as spotted by @gosokkyu) The game, which is called Xelan Force, was first conceived as a special project to commemorate the…
Explore post-nuclear earth in this 1989 arcade shoot ’em up from Taito. Hamster has announced that Taito’s vertical-scrolling arcade shooter Master of Weapon will be this week’s Arcade Archives release (as reported by Famitsu!). It will begin distribution on PS4 (via the PlayStation store) & the Nintendo Switch eShop on February 15th. The game, which…
‘Project Gravity’ was set to be published by 2K. Over the years, fans have been clamouring for a brand new entry in the SSX series, with countless op-eds, social media posts, and YouTube videos pleading with its developer/publisher EA to remake or remaster the iconic snowboarding series. Despite the demand, however, EA has pretty much…
“One fascinating machine at a time”. A new book aims to highlight the history of the video game console in a “comprehensive But controversial” fashion. The Console (or, ‘The Con50le’, if you prefer) is penned by seasoned games journalist and occasional Hookshot Media contributor Mike Diver and will cover the industry’s birth in the 1970s…
Asteroids Deluxe! Tower of Druaga! Mappy! Eight new arcade games are now supported by the Analogue Pocket, including classics such as the original Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong Jr. The cores have been developed by newcomer obsidian-dot-dev, who has appeared out of nowhere with five new cores which cover eight games in total. These cores…
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“Some kind of shrine? An ornate lamp? A house for bats?”. Video games are full of little secrets, and a lot of the time, their existence is either hidden for decades or mused over endlessly. Take this example from Super Castlevania IV. At the start of the game’s second level, there’s an object on a…