“People think the crash happened in both places. It didn’t”. If you consider yourself to be a budding gaming historian, then the Video Game Crash of 1983 will be an event you’re at least partially aware of. To cut a long story short, Atari created an enormous market in the US for video game consoles,…
Can we play? Anyone familiar with the Mario Kart series will tell you that the tracks are the true stars of the show. Sure, gimmicks like two riders in one kart, anti-gravity support, and gliders are all well and good, but they mean little if the tracks themselves aren’t particularly fun. Thankfully, Nintendo pretty much…
I’ve long been of the opinion that you don’t necessarily need a set of gaming-specific speakers for great gaming audio. That probably sounds rather counterintuitive, I know, but unless you’re prepared to run the cabling nightmare that is a 5.1 system around your gamer cave, a good set of regular speakers has long been my…
When chimp-and-rat buddy horror adventure Animal Use Protocol was first announced late last year, I felt fear. Not the good kind that tiny South African indie outfit The Brotherhood had so well cultivated with their Stasis point-and-click adventure series, but worries that shifting to a real-time, first-person perspective would ruin the perfectly unpleasant vibes the…
Owlet’s Embrace releases Q4 2025. Back in July 2022, when we originally reviewed the Playdate, we weren’t shy about the fact that we loved Panic’s crank-based system, calling it “a throwback to a time when handheld video gaming was a simpler, more innocent pastime, and every new experience felt fresh and exciting.” And ever since…
And support for modern controllers. Yesterday GOG announced that Silent Hill 4: The Room has been added to the GOG Preservation Program, bringing with it a bunch of improvements such as the restoration of missing PS2 content and support for modern controllers. The fourth entry in the Silent Hill franchise, Silent Hill 4: The Room…
Part of Bloober Team’s new horror label. Developer Rock Square Thunder (The Lightbringer) has revealed I Hate This Place, an upcoming open-world survival horror published by Broken Mirror Games, the brand-new horror label from Bloober Team. Birthed via a partnership with Skybound Entertainment, I Hate This Place will be based on the Eisner award-nominated comic…
“Today, I had a good meeting with our Altera partner”. Since its inception in 2017, the MiSTer FPGA project has grown to become one of retro gaming’s most popular platforms. Harnessing Field-Programmable Gate Array technology, the system is capable of emulating a host of consoles, handhelds, computers, and arcade machines at a hardware level, offering…
Get to know the Blue Blur’s history. Sonic the Hedgehog has been around for a long time now and if you’re having trouble keeping track of all the highlights in his career, don’t worry – Sega’s got you covered with its official timeline. This is all part of the Sonic Channel’s relaunch in Japan, which…
Silent Hill 4: The Room may not be my favorite Silent Hill, but it’s far from the worst and it occupies an important place in the series—it’s the last one Team Silent worked on. So it’s always been a shame the PC version is incomplete, missing stuff that was in the PlayStation 2 version. Until…