Randy Pitchford, Gearbox CEO, chronic tweeter, and known warlock, has performed his greatest magic trick yet. The magician has resurrected the dead—summoning the spirit of the most tedious videogame discourse of 2010 in a new documentary from Shacknews called 24 ‘Til Launch: The Making Of Borderlands 4. “I love that we’re just getting started,” says…
Earlier this week, the official White House account jumped on a tongue-in-cheek post by GameStop to crib some credit for ending the console war. An eye-rolling, but otherwise uneventful AI-generated image of US president Donald Trump saluting an American flag with an incorrect number of stars. A slightly more eventful post happened when the X…
Repent! Publisher Nicalis and developer Edmund McMillan have announced that The Binding of Isaac: Repentance+ will be heading to the Switch 2 in Q1 2026. The release will boast the full game alongside key expansions and improvements, plus full cooperative play via online connection. If that’s not enough, Repentance+ will also benefit from a full…
The 1984 shoot ’em up ‘Scion’ arrives this week. This week’s Arcade Archives release has been revealed to be a 1984 shoot ’em up from Seibu Denshi, the company that would later change its name to Seibu Kaihatsu and become famous for games like the Cabal-esque shooter Dynamite Duke (1989) and the vertical scroller Raiden…
Live on Kickstarter now. Rune Factory 4 director Shinichi Manabe is currently hard at work creating a new farming sim alongside writer Takanori Tsuji, and it’s now live on Kickstarter. Farnia Village is currently eyeing a release on Steam, but Manabe-san also states that a console release may be on the cards at some point…
There’s no feeling quite like taming a horse in Minecraft, trying to ride it back to your base, and being met with a huge body of water. The sinking feeling in your chest, knowing that you’ll either have to leave it there and run off in an attempt to find the materials to craft a…
“I actually did not expect to meet that goal”. If you were around in the late ’90s and you owned a PC then chances are you encountered ZSNES, one of the first retro emulators to really break into the mainstream. Coded by zsKnight, the emulator was astounding for 1997 – not only did it offer…
They’re back! Sort of… Eagle-eyed Donkey Kong Bananza fans have spotted an advertisement for the game’s next event, and it sounds like the rewards will be quite familiar to those who played Donkey Kong 64 back in the day. Yes, as spotted by X user @upachan64 (thanks, Gaming Reinvented), both Lanky Kong and Chunky Kong…
An epic RPG adventure awaits, Hero. It’s an incredibly exciting week for old school RPG fans, with Square Enix releasing Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake on the Switch, Switch 2 and multiple other platforms. This reimagined package comes loaded with not only the trademark HD-2D visuals, but also new features, new locations and…
Here’s a teaser… There was recently news about the upcoming release SpongeBob SquarePants: Titans of the Tide getting a demo on select platforms, and ahead of Halloween, it’s now officially available on the Switch 2 eShop. You’ll apparently be able to access the first levels of the game as SpongeBob and Patrick, and also some…