Like many in my millennial age cohort, I’ve got a sickening nostalgic obsession with clear plastic electronics: Game Boys, OG MacBooks, Discmen. It’s god’s own design language, I tell you, not just rosy memories of the late ’90s and early aughts! No doubt taking note of the many aftermarket solutions for giving the Steam Deck…
Well, here’s a cannon blast from the past. Pirates, Vikings & Knights 2 hit 1.0 on Steam while nobody was looking. What’s that? You don’t remember Pirates, Vikings & Knights 2? Don’t blame yourself. There’s a reasonable chance you weren’t born when it first set sail into the freshly pixel-shaded waters of Half-Life 2 modding….
Expect lots of PS4 ports. The tech experts over at Digital Foundry have weighed in on the recent ‘Switch 2’ motherboard leak, presenting their views on what the apparent compenents included mean for the power and performance of the upcoming console. If you’ve been following along with the Switch 2 rumours for some time now,…
Showdown of the decade? It’s that time of year again, folks. No, not Christmas, though for many it may well be just as exciting. It’s time for The Game Awards 2023! We’re expecting a genuinely thrilling event in December following what may well have been one of the strongest years in gaming ever, with the…
Is this the best way to play the original Darius? Back in 2021, Taito released Darius Cozmic Collection on Steam, allowing players to experience a bunch of classic games in the iconic shoot ’em up series, from the comfort of their PC. This includes the original “Old Version” of the 1986 classic, which was intended…
If you’re on social media you’ve probably stumbled over some quote, clip, or screen grab from one of Studio Ghibli’s movies, but with ChatGPT’s newest update introducing its most refined image generation yet, you’re now just as likely to find an AI facsimile with a startling resemblance to the real thing. Possibly based on someone’s…
Erdrick of the tale. After its initial announcement of the Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, Square Enix took a few years before it shared any further significant information on the project, which led some at the time to wonder if it had been cancelled or was facing development issues behind the scenes. When the company…
Sometimes a game’s appeal is immediately apparent from a single GIF. Maybe it’s a goose terrorizing a small town, or a surprisingly slick set of menus. I knew I wanted to play Spine the second I saw a looping clip of a character methodically kicking, grappling, and shooting a room full of hired muscle with…
“Something about ruining the Rockstar mystique”. An ex-Rockstar North employee has removed several blogs detailing the development of games such as Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City, and the cancelled spy game Agent after the studio itself submitted a written complaint via email (thanks, Time Extension). In a series of posts dubbed ‘Inside Rockstar North’,…
A new stretch goal has been added. Game Garage, the developer of the upcoming Kirby Air Ride and Sonic Adventure-inspired title Star Garden, may have smashed its Kickstarter goal of $35,000, raising over $158,000 on the crowdfunding site. But it isn’t through trying to generate further support for the project, continuing to add a number…