We take a closer look at one of Nintendo’s biggest failures. The N64 Disk Drive is one of Nintendo’s most fascinating failures. Initially teased at the company’s Shoshinkai event in November 1995, the peripheral took advantage of proprietary 64MB magnetic disks to expand the console’s available storage with rewritable data as well as introducing other…
Hey everyone! Sorry for the delay — we’ve been pretty busy trying to get some N++ updates and bugfixes out the door for you all to enjoy, but we have hit a few unexpected snags, so these will take a bit more time. N++ on PS Store In the meantime, we are really excited to…
A Wall Street Journal report says a group of investors led by X owner Elon Musk has made an offer to buy the non-profit organization that controls OpenAI for $97.4 billion. Musk said in a statement that the offer was made in order to return OpenAI “to the open-source, safety-focused force for good it once…
The Sims series turned 25 this week and to mark the occasion we’ve asked a psychologist to take a reality check on The Sims 4. The series is meant to simulate life, sure, but certain things are always going to be exaggerated for comedic effect. You can’t really die from laughter, right? Well, probably not….
The return of the prodigal sun. This review originally went live in 2014, and we’re updating and republishing it to celebrate the game’s arrival in Switch’s Game Boy Advance library via the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack. Back in 2001 (2002 in Europe) some players were left feeling short-changed when Golden Sun reached its abrupt…
I bang this drum a lot, but what the world needs right now, more than anything, is a remaster (and PC release) of Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, a game I mostly remember for letting me fly around in a helicopter and collapsing infrastructure. Would it hold up? Possibly not, but it’s one of very few…
If you’re a fan of 4X strategy games, you’ll probably have already read through our review of Civilization 7 and perhaps my performance analysis of the game, too. As any strategy enthusiast will know, such games are almost never about the graphics and instead focus on complex AI algorithms, which test your abilities as a…
The latest title from Krafton Game Union has arrived. Mistover is a roguelike dungeon crawler RPG and it’s out today for PlayStation 4. Players who have been following us since we first announced the game have described Mistover as an “anime Darkest Dungeon,” which we think captures the game’s look and feel. With a cast…
Take Two has announced the Civilization VI – New Frontier Pass which is coming to the Nintendo Switch and will provide owners of Civilization VI with more content. “The Civilization VI – New Frontier Pass offers eight new civilizations, nine new leaders and a variety of new gameplay content, including six new game modes.” The…
Why not try something new with Free Play Days? Dungeons 3, Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising and I am Fish are available this weekend for Xbox Game Pass Core and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members to play from Thursday April 18 at 12:01 a.m. PDT until Sunday, April 21 at 11:59 p.m. PDT. Game Pass Core will…