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A Lara Lara laughs. Sega’s 32X may have been a dismal commercial flop but, had things gone a little differently, we could have seen Lara Croft make her debut on the system (stick with us on this one). Designed to be a stop-gap between the 16-bit Mega Drive / Genesis and the 32-bit Saturn, the…
“Beating Tetris is not a life goal”. Yesterday, we reported on the news that 13-year-old Willis “Blue Scuti” Gibson had beaten the NES version of Tetris by reaching the game’s “kill screen” – a point where the game’s code crashes. While the gaming world celebrated this remarkable achievement, Sky News journalist Jayne Secker took a…
Adds modern lighting, high-resolution widescreen support, and more! Following years of development, Daggerfall Unity — a fanmade mod and Unity recreation of the second and largest of The Elder Scrolls games — has finally been released in 1.0.0 (as spotted through VG247!). This means there’s no better time than now to jump back into the…
Take a look at the development of Sonic’s first PlayStation game. The video game preservationists Hidden Palace have shared an early PS2 build of Sonic Heroes online, giving a closer look at the development of Sonic’s first-ever game on a PlayStation console (thanks Sonic Stadium for the spot!). Sonic Heroes, in case you’re unaware, was…
Another book to look forward to in 2024. UK publisher Bitmap Books has created a long line of excellent ‘Visual Compendiums’ which focus on celebrating a particular console or home computer. The company has already done NES, Mega Drive, Master System and SNES, and it’s preparing to launch the latest entry in the series, this…
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Jason Newman, who is displayed on card number 2589, from the Superstars of 2016 Collection. Jason is a multiple Ridge Racer world record holder on multiple platforms including the arcade version. His love for the game keeps him busy and going for more records each day. With over 100 records…
About This Episode Four decades ago, just when video games seemed to be the next big thing, the bottom dropped out. Compounding problems like market confusion, consumer confidence, and game quality to name just a few, nearly demolished a seemingly unstoppable new industry. They ultimately made a comeback, but the future looked bleak when the…
“No thank you. Mission complete. Game over”. It’s hard to think of WipEout without also thinking about The Designers Republic, the Sheffield-based agency that built the franchise’s look and helped it become one of the trailblazers of the 32-bit era. What you may not realise is that The Designers Republic – which was founded in…
No, not THAT Monty Mole, Mario fans. When we recently reviewed Gremlin Collection 1 on the Evercade, we lamented the fact that it didn’t feature Monty Mole, one of the company’s most famous 8-bit titles. It seems we now know why; someone else owns the IP for the character, and we’re getting a Nintendo Switch-bound…
Work. Buy. Consume. Die. Founded in the ’80s by Ian Anderson and Nick Phillips, The Designers Republic will be most famous to gamers for its amazing branding and iconography work on the WipEout series, but, as a design agency, its influence and impact goes way beyond that franchise. The 512-page A To Z Of The…