…plus two not-so-great ones. Following Neo Geo Arcade 1 and Neo Geo Arcade 2, Blaze has returned with another collection of classic titles in the form of this third helping. While you might assume we’re looking at diminishing returns here, any SNK fan will tell you that the Neo Geo’s catalogue of games is positively…
Featuring some familiar faces. After the debut Emerald Rush event wrapped up earlier this month, Donkey Kong Bananza‘s second DLC in-game event is getting off to the races next week, with two particularly swanky reward statues up for grabs. The ‘So Strong It’s Funny’ event will get underway on 25th November and will be hanging…
In October 2024 a science fiction author, Matthew Kelsey Martineau, launched a lawsuit against Bungie focused on a Destiny 2 enemy faction: Martineau alleged that the game’s Red Legion faction, the Red War storyline, and various other narrative beats were based on his stories from 2013-14, which had been published on a WordPress blog. Perhaps…
The Bees quest in Arc Raiders is as simple as tracking down the bee hive location in the Olive Grove. If The Root of the Matter and her letting you buy scrap for actual seeds wasn’t enough of a clue, Celeste is very interested in the environment of the topside and restoring things to how…
Gaga, Cher, Streisand… Mega Starmie? It came during the night. From the darkest, most existentially tortured recesses of a Game Freak designer’s brain. Diffidently, at first, then more boldly. Finally, hips swishing, stripper heels glittering, it announced itself across the Internet in a burst of dramatics. I am speaking, of course, of Mega Starmie, the…
XDefiant may not have been as spectacular a flop as Concord, but it was another stark example of how ephemeral online gaming can be in today’s industry. Ubisoft’s multiplayer shooter released in 2024 to not-insignificant critical acclaim, with PC Gamer’s Jake Tucker calling it “a breath of fresh air” in a sphere dominated by Call…
Finishing the Espresso quest in Arc Raiders is extremely simple once you know where to find an espresso machine to salvage for parts. Apollo, Speranza’s resident grenade and gadget vendor, sends you to the Buried City following a tip he got from a Raider about a magical old-world machine that can produce coffee. Imagine that……
I’ve not gotten around to it yet, but it’s my understanding that Telltale-style superhero sim Dispatch is really rather good. So good that it won the heart of our Fraser Brown, who scored it 89% in his Dispatch review and called it “one of the best superhero TV shows around.” And that’s without all the…
Arc Raiders has been on an upward trend over the last few weeks since its launch. Reaching an impressive 100,000 concurrent players in just the first half an hour and then doubling that within a day, it seems like everyone’s hooked on raiding. Three weeks after its launch, Arc Raiders is still not letting up,…
“Almost the entire truck was emptied”. A North American arcade operator has reported over $25,000 worth of items stolen recently, sparking a heartfelt campaign to recover the missing items. Charlie Mosley, owner of the Seattle-based Gamecenter arcade, found that his truck was missing one morning last week. Contained within were two arcade machines and a…