In the 90s, Nintendo, Sega, and Sony held elaborate competitions that defined an era of eSports, with regional city qualifiers awarding a trip to a spectacular main event. A generation of gamers rose to the challenge, hoping to prove themselves as the best in the world! While the 1990 Nintendo World Championships is the best-known…
Unforgettable stories and characters, outrageous combat, and some hilarious mini-games – the acclaimed Yakuza / Like a Dragon series has a massive following for all the right reasons. With Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties’ launching on PlayStation 5 February 12 next year – and to celebrate the franchise’s 20th anniversary, with the first game…
An Audino delight. The next generation of Pokémon may be at least a year away, but The Pokémon Company appears to be ushering the new generation in steadily anyway, and what better way to do so than with a behind-the-scenes look at the recording of Pokémon Winds & Waves‘ main theme. This beautiful recording was…
Online shop from Bing’s image search The search wars are an ongoing thing with plenty of advertising dollars at stake, and if you snooze, well, you lose out on the loot. To keep up with the competition — namely, Google, the search engine that’s also a verb — Microsoft paid special attention to Bing’s image…
It’s not overstating things to say Tim Cain is a legend among PC RPG fans. The man’s got credits on a roster of games that would make other developers green with envy: Stonekeep, Fallout, Arcanum, ToEE, Pillars of Eternity, and more. And it all began, as he recounted in his most recent video, because he…
A rare feat. Super Meat Boy‘s reputation precedes it. The notoriously-difficult precision platformer is designed to be extremely challenging, and death on every single screen is basically inevitable. Amazingly, it’s taken over 15 years for anyone to fully complete the game — that’s get 106% completion — without dying, but it finally happened at the…
Special commentary on this classic PC Gamer review provided by: Dishonored review – PC Gamer issue #246 (UK, December 2012) From the archives: The review below appears as originally written, with only minor changes in formatting and presentation. By Tom Francis (Image credit: Bethesda) I think I can jump onto another light fitting from here….
Now Japan’s 7th largest business. Regardless of the drop-off in Switch sales in recent years, we knew that this generation had been a good one for Nintendo’s financials. It has been so good, in fact, that the House of Mario has just surpassed another massive milestone in its latest Japanese market valuation (thanks, NintendoWire). According…
After a rough few years, Intel has clearly been hoping for better times, and it’s fair to say that the official launch of Panther Lake at CES 2026 was a major step in the right direction. However, while all the attention was focused on the new mobile chips, the distinct lack of anything about an…
It is Monday so it is time to check out the latest video game software charts in the United Kingdom. This week sees four Nintendo Switch titles in the top ten with Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Minecraft Switch Edition and Luigi’s Mansion 3. Next week’s charts will be interesting as Xenoblade…