Launching on IndieGoGo soon. When we tested the AYANEO Retro Mini PC AM01 recently, we found it to be a likeable mini-computer capable of low-level work-related tasks and lightweight gaming. The Chinese company chose the iconic Apple Macintosh as its design inspiration for that machine, but its follow-up is clearly based on the NES. The…
Death Stranding 2 had a lengthy showing at Sony’s State of Play today, but for those a little weary of Hideo Kojima’s surrealist parcel delivery series there was a glimmer of hope. Kojima confirmed that after Death Stranding 2, his studio will commence development on a “next-generation action espionage game”, which basically means he’ll be…
Darkest Dungeon is one of the best dungeon crawlers period, and a huge part of its appeal is the dour, gravely tones of a mysterious “ancestor” who narrates your every move. The man behind the musings, Wayne June, sadly died last year—and in the wake of news like this, a ghoulish question tends to arise:…
An Ironclad purchase. The Evercade family of systems has seen some amazing collections over the past few years, but few have been quite as eagerly-awaited as the Neo Geo Arcade 1 cartridge. Much of this will be down to the fact that, once upon a time, SNK’s home console was considered to be one of…
Limited Run Games has announced when physical pre-orders will open for Star Wars Episode I: Racer on the Nintendo Switch system. You can get your hands on pre-orders on 10th July at 10:00am ET and there’s a four week pre-order window. Star Wars Episode I: Racer is available right now digitally on the eShop.
While Dungeons & Dragons’ huge OGL stumble didn’t quite convert the game’s captive audience to the hundreds of other (very good) TTRPGs out there, it’s still caused a resurgence of people checking out other games. It also prompted several creators (like the minds behind The MCDM RPG) to start doing their own thing—both to capitalise…
The past few weeks have been pretty huge for PC gaming hardware releases, and seemingly for some rather dubious claims from Nvidia about their successes. We’ve seen the launch of two new lines of GPU with AMD’s RX 9070 family and Nvidia’s more mid-range RTX 50-series. With limited availability across the board, cards on both…
“I didn’t use my own face as a reference”. If you know Ridge Racer, then you know Reiko Nagase. She’s the closest thing the series has to a mascot and was introduced as an unnamed character in the 1995 arcade title Rave Racer before being given an official name and enhanced status to coincide with…
PS1 motherboard was “cut in half, folded like a book”. Only last week, we reported on a portable PS1 that was built into a Japan-only controller. This is an impressive achievement, but it’s one that was built around emulation and not original hardware. For all of the PS1 purists out there, we advise you to…
