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Even more great retro gaming news for this week, as we have just learnt that TIX with the help of Paul Lay, has released an Atari XL/XE rom hack of ‘Montezuma’s Revenge’, which overhauls the game giving it new lease of life. Montezuma was originally released in the early 80’s for the Atari 2600, Atari…
Videogames have always been cavalier with numbers. For decades, series like Final Fantasy and Unreal Tournament have brazenly ignored the fundamentals of sequel ordering, not to mention the whole ‘making art with mathematics’ thing videogames are wont to do. But now they’ve started playing fast and loose with the concept of anniversaries too, and I…
Whatever will we Pik? You wait six months for a Nintendo Direct and then three come along in a matter of weeks! There’s no rest in the world of Nintendo at the moment, and we’re excited about it. This week’s showcase put Mario Kart World in the spotlight. The presentation didn’t have all that much…
When Bit Reactor’s game director Greg Foertsch confirms to me that Star Wars Zero Company has permadeath, I can’t help but grin. In retrospect, it might be a bit odd for me to get so psyched about the shadow of mortality, but this one choice says so much about what kind of game—and what kind…
It’s Saturday, so why not celebrate the start of the weekend with a nice easy Wordle win? Today’s answer is here whenever you want to click on it, whether that’s before you’ve touched the first row or you’re one line away from the bottom of the board. As always, we’ve got a clue for the…
GameCube will be available for Switch 2’s ‘Expansion Pack’ tier. The Nintendo Today! mobile app has been sharing additional footage of the GameCube games on the way to the Switch 2’s online expansion pack at launch, and the latest video is a look at SoulCalibur II. This Namco fighter originally made its debut on consoles…
Update today. Lara Croft returned earlier this year on the Switch and multiple other platforms with Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered. Now, a few months later, this collection has received its very first patch which includes visual touch-ups, general fixes, new outfits unlocked, and much more. Here are the full patch notes shared on Aspyr’s website:…
Perusing the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit for pro gamer tips this morning (as one does), I was struck by something: It was all photo mode shitposts. The subreddit has gazed upon all Patch 8 has to offer, and summarily declared: “This is r/BaldursGate3, bitch. We clown in this mf. Better take your sensitive ass back…
In the latest episode of our video series Reality Check, paleontologist Dr. Darren Naish returned to give his assessment of the monster designs in Elden Ring. While you might be unsurprised to learn that FromSoft’s opus isn’t exactly “realistic,” Naish praised the studio’s attention to detail and commitment to its fiction. Case and point: The…
I’ve seen lots of attempts to recreate the success of Rocket League over the past decade, but none have come close. Rematch might finally, actually do it. The multiplayer soccer game (‘Rocket League but with feet,’ as I’m calling it here) is having an open beta on Steam this weekend, and has already surpassed 100,000…