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“This is just not the kind of thing you visualise at the start of a project”. The Playdate is a handheld device primarily designed with gaming in mind, but that hasn’t stopped developers from putting it to work for all sorts of different use cases. Since its release back in 2022, we’ve seen people take…
“I might have been ready to die happy”. Former Vanillaware artist Yoshio Nishimura has just released the RPG Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle on PC, and he’s been speaking to RPG Site about the involvement of the legendary composer Hitoshi Sakimoto. Sakimoto is famous for his soundtracks for games such as Final Fantasy…
“The Lenovo G02 is officially dead”. Not very long ago, our friends over at Retro Dodo reported on the news that Lenovo had released an emulation handheld that was being sold pre-loaded with copyrighted ROMs, including games owned by the likes of Nintendo and Sega. The company initially argued that, as the device was intended…
Konami’s 1987 ‘Hyper Crash’ arrives on modern platforms this week. One of Konami’s more obscure arcade titles is making the jump to modern consoles this week as part of the Arcade Archives & Arcade Archives 2 series. Hyper Crash is a 3rd-person racing game from Konami, which was released in arcades in 1987. It saw…
If you’ve ever heard of Covert Bitops then you would’ve known they released the fantastic action adventure game ‘ Hessian ‘ for the C64 in 2016. A game which blew us away with over 667 screens with specialized AI enemies found throughout that must either be avoided or shot at. Well as of this moment…
‘Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure’ released in the US back in 2000. We have some interesting news for fans of Japanese role-playing games. Nippon Ichi Software’s PlayStation RPG Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure is coming to PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2 this week, as part of Console Archives. Released in Japan in 1998 and in North America…
I wanna get physical, let’s get into physical. As the drama surrounding Sony’s decision to end physical media production for its PlayStation consoles in 2028 rages on, it’s worth reminding ourselves why tangible items are important in the world of video gaming. As a diehard Castlevania fan, there is no better way to do that…
“I’d rather be judged on that than on what went wrong getting here”. Back in 2013, a Kickstarter campaign was launched for the ambitious Project Phoenix, a JRPG helmed by Hiroaki Yura. It would smash its funding goal and earn $1,014,600, yet, over a decade later, it remains unreleased. Amazingly, Yura has confirmed that the…
The INIU P63 offers a massive 25,000mAh capacity. While handheld gaming has come on leaps and bounds in recent years, with devices like Switch 2, Steam Deck and AYANEO 3 offering AAA performance in the palm of your hand, there’s been one big limiting factor across all of these products: battery life. It shouldn’t come…
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