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Shareholders vote for ‘re-domiciliation’ from France to Luxembourg. Atari Group CEO Wade Rosen and original founder Nolan Bushnell Atari’s shareholders have approved to redomicile the company from France to Luxembourg. Read the full article on timeextension.com Shareholders vote for ‘re-domiciliation’ from France to Luxembourg. Atari Group CEO Wade Rosen and original founder Nolan Bushnell Atari’s…
“No generative AI was used at any stage”. A Vanillaware veteran is about to release a new game on Steam featuring over 300 hand-drawn illustrations created over the course of six years (thanks, @STGshmups). Yoshio Nishimura has enjoyed a 30-year career as a background artist, with credits such as Monster Hunter, Odin Sphere, Dragon’s Crown,…
The MSX home computer library continues to grow with the release of a high-quality, dedicated port of Namco’s arcade classic, Super Pac-Man. Developed by Mastropiero, this new version offers fans a definitive way to experience the 1982 sequel on the MSX. While the project uses the Casio PV-2000 title Mr. Packn as its technical base, it…
“It’s my wits against the person who’s going to be playing it”. We’ve recently witnessed the arrival of the excellent Head Over Heels sequel Return to Blacktooth, a title which has taken its developer, Colin Porch, 37 years to complete. Porch has been speaking to British television network ITV about how the project was revived,…
“I truly believe this game has now secured its spot as a Gradius classic”. The Gradius series certainly isn’t short of must-play entries, but 2001’s Gradius Advance isn’t a title you’d automatically recommend to newcomers interested in exploring the franchise for the first time. Developed by Mobile21, a studio founded in 1999 by Nintendo and…
Abundance for all! Thanks to the increased demand for memory driven by the seemingly insatiable hunger for AI-focused data centres, we’ve seen a series of hardware price hikes in the gaming industry – and Valve is the latest company to raise the cost of its products. The Steam Deck handheld has been sold out for…
Over 5,000 miles separate the Finnish Museum of Games (Suomen Pelmuseo) located in Tampere from the National Videogame Museum (NVM) in Frisco, Texas. The city of Frisco is the result of early 20th century railroad expansion, taking its name from the St. Louis-San Francisco railway, and early 21st century suburban sprawl (once the “fastest growing”…
Clear-eyed at last, I found myself cataloguing the differences. Not between Athens and Heraklion, or between riot cops and farmers, but between what I’d been shown and what I’d been denied. The teargas had been indiscriminate — it didn’t care whether you were a protester, a tourist with a rolling suitcase, or a scholar on…
When I visited M05’s Musée Du Jeu Vidéo and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France during my university’s spring break in March 2026, I decided to visit London for the day. The urge to see the Design Museum’s “Wes Anderson: The Archives” and “Blitz: The Club that Shaped the 80s” was just too great. Paris can…
Old School Gamer Writer David Lloyd shares his thoughts on The Five Most Essential RPGs for Your Nintendo DS Catalogue. Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey The Megami Tensei franchise started way back in 1987 with Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei on the Famicom, but was mostly unknown to the West until it began to be…