Wuhu Island: Be there or be (Spocco) Square. Back what seems like a lifetime ago, I got a chance to have a pop at Nintendo Switch Sports Resort at gamescom ’26. No, I don’t mean the stuff that just anyone with a ticket and the patience to wait in an enormous queue could play. No,…
I have technically solved a lot of crimes from the comfort of my gaming chair, but it’s surprisingly rare for games to actually engage with the mechanics of a criminal investigation. You’ll chat to folk, maybe use your ‘detective vision’, and then the culprit is found. Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy asks more from you. As…
Got 5,000 hours to spare? The rare and rubbish PS1 RPG Spectral Tower has been translated into English, and is now ready and raring to go for all players looking to have a tedious, endless adventure. The patch, crafted by a team of homebrewers, arrives just in time for the dubious title’s 30th anniversary. Released…
Going Deeper Underground. Thalamus Digital has revealed the artwork for the upcoming physical release of its 2025 old-school platformer, Cave Dave. The colourful image was painted by Wil Overton, the veteran artist known for their work with developer Rare as well as their legendary, anime-infused covers for ’90s magazine Super Play. Released digitally for Game…
Q27GADE: was $329.99 now $279.99Is this the cheapest big-brand OLED gaming monitor money can buy? Right now, very likely. The refresh rate is pretty low, as is the brightness. But it’s still tempting thanks to that perfect per-pixel lighting and incredibly fast pixel response. Key specs: 27-inch | 1440p | 144 Hz | 0.03 ms…
The end of the beginning. There was a lot of hype and excitement in the lead-up to 2019’s Kingdom Hearts 3. It promised to finally conclude the Dark Seeker Saga that had kicked off way back on the PS2 in 2002. Expectations were sky-high and the final product didn’t quite stick the landing, but it…
Super Fighting Robot tribute title now live. Capcom’s veteran superstar/superguy Mega Man is back (in a fashion), courtesy of a brand-new unofficial fan game now available on the PICO-8 platform. Kiloman, developed by homebrewer Trianull, sees The Blue Bomber return for a mini adventure on the byte-sized game creation platform. Four challenging stages await, capped…
Runs on PS1 and PS2, as well. Taki Udon has released a memory card to complement his SuperStation One MiSTer FPGA system – and it also works on original PS1 and PS2 consoles. The SuperStation Memory Card (or SSMC to its friends) has a built-in display for Game ID support and works with FreePSXBoot, FCMB,…
Grab your plastic overlays. Milton Bradley’s tabletop all-in-one console, Vectrex, can now be inked in as another platform that can “run” seminal 1993 release DOOM. New footage surfaced yesterday that showed the granddaddy of the shooter genre “running” on the long-obsolete vector-based system. Even given the Vectrex display’s rudimentary visuals, id Software’s legendary FPS title…
“In North America, Japanese art styles like that just won’t be accepted”. Given the insane global popularity of Japanese animation and pop culture today, it’s hard to believe that, once upon a time, Western marketers did everything they could to hide the fact that something came from The Land of the Rising Sun. There’s no…