Alfa System’s Linda Cube was initially released for the PC Engine CD in 1995. Earlier this week, the video game developer Meteorise (the company that owns Alfa System) announced it has received a transfer of intellectual property rights for the cult classic Japanese horror RPG Linda Cube from the internet service provider BIGLOBE, reigniting hopes…
Amongst all the news of brutal layoffs, studio divestments, and ironic task force appointments at Microsoft this week, over in the Call of Duty corner of the megacorp, something kinda cool happened. Activision released updated ports of Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010) and Black Ops 2 (2012). They come with caveats, of course: At…
“F**k off Bin Laden”. The 2002 PS1 title E.T.: Interplanetary Mission was never likely to be remembered for its quality. Presumably created to capitalise on the cinematic re-release of the original 1982 movie, which took place in the same year, Interplanetary Mission is the very definition of a low-effort movie tie-in – apart from one…
A rare peek behind the curtain! Few companies have produced as many “arcade hits” as the video game giant Konami. The Japanese developer and publisher — founded all the way back in 1969 as a jukebox repair business — is behind some of the most beloved arcade titles: from puzzle-action games like Frogger to a…
The Nintendo PlayStation prototype recently went up for sale at auction and the winning bidder had remained a mystery, until now. It turns out that the winning bidder was Greg McLemore who is the founder of Pets.com. He purchased the lucrative prototype for a staggering $360K and plans to open a gaming museum as he…
Just how fast is that SSD? Every now and again, resetting the benchmark charts is necessary. Now is such a time, for several reasons. First, we have a new testbed (Skylake) that enables potentially higher performance, particularly for M.2 PCIe drives. Second, some of the benchmarks we were using have gotten a bit long in…
A whole new world opens. After being formally announced last week, Gameloft has now revealed the full patch notes for Disney Dreamlight Valley‘s upcoming ‘Tales of Agrabah’ update, which is set to land on Switch tomorrow (26th February). The headline addition for this one is the new ‘Agrabah’s Market’ Realm, which welcomes Aladdin and Jasmine…
Battleborn has lots of character. OK, if we’re being technical – it has 25 of them. And every single one plays differently from the others. Do you want to pilot a murderous mech? Fly like an eagle and plop down rockets on targets below? Maybe you want to be a sentient mushroom? Perhaps a vampire…
Final Fantasy 14 isn’t the only Final Fantasy-related MMO. Its ancient ancestor, Final Fantasy 11, which released all the way back in 2002 before World of Warcraft reshaped the landscape for massively multiplayer games, is still trucking along. It’s not exactly bustling next to the likes of FF14, Guild Wars 2, and WoW, but it…
Logging into apps or websites is one of our most-repeated digital activities, a sacred handshake between internet and user that says “I’m me, please let me in.” To my disappointment, at some point in the last few years we reached a point where logging in wasn’t a matter of extending your hand and completing a…