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Original game reinstated (for now). Sega, in response to terrible reviews and a wealth of complaints from players, has announced that it is pulling Total War: Shogun 2 Complete Edition from sale while it “investigates” issues. The original 2011 edition of the strategy sequel – which was removed from sale ahead of the remaster’s launch…
Roulette is one game with two different wheels. The European version has 37 pockets and the American version has 38. That one extra pocket changed the game’s commercial trajectory and still shapes how digital roulette is designed and played today. This piece looks at how the design fork happened, what it means for the game’s…
Manual trio kills, guaranteed-drop packages and a remote-play option make Bald.GG’s Nex offering worth a closer look for established Old School RuneScape players. Nex brings a demanding team encounter to Old School RuneScape. Old School RuneScape still delivers the pleasure familiar to anyone who grew up with an RPG: a better weapon, a new armour…
Slot reels and card tables have been squeezed onto ever-smaller glass since the 1970s. Anyone who grew up on handhelds will recognize the design tricks that came out of it. Slot reels used to be physical drums. For roughly eight decades after Charles Fey’s Liberty Bell, a slot machine meant springs and gears, plus a…
Zeus was raising the dead in Sega arcades back in 1988. Now he’s one of the busiest characters on Australian pokies, and the reasons go all the way back to the 8-bit era. Gods sell games. Anyone who grew up with a Sega Genesis already knows this. The console’s North American pack-in was Altered Beast,…
Free spins are a casino marketing staple. Yet their history goes much further back than players may think. As soon as you encounter any sort of casino marketing in the digital age, it is almost certainly going to involve an offer for free spins. Woven into the foundation of the digital age of gambling, the…
Former employee auctioning wealth of Nintendo treasures. A former Nintendo employee has listed a series of auctions featuring a selection of treasures pulled from their personal collection – the centrepiece of which is original artwork used to promote the 1981 arcade classic Donkey Kong. Speaking in an interview with The New York Times, (and spotted…
I’ll come bouncing back to you. Video game fans of a certain age know Wizball very well indeed. Even if you never played the game, Ocean Software’s 1987 best-seller was unavoidable, occupying store shelves for many years and marketed in magazines with some unforgettable magazine ads starring its frankly horrifying protagonist. But if you did…
‘No, it’s not come in yet…’ The Game. This week, Hamster’s Console Archives continues its trend of releasing titles that are, unfortunately, pretty much unplayable outside of Japan, with the arrival of PlayStation’s The Drug Store: Matsumoto Kiyoshi de Okaimono! now available on PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2. Released in 1998 and developed by Human…
Pre-orders expected to open October 16. AliExpress has seemingly jumped the gun on releasing details pertaining to Anbernic’s upcoming handheld emulator, the RG DDS. As reported by RetroHandhelds, the drop-shipping site opened a new listing which seems to reveal the console’s price and shipping details. According to AliExpress, the RG DDS (“Dual Dream Screen”) will…