“Beautiful parallax effects, detailed scenarios and huge sprites”. Picture the scene: it’s 1988, and Sega has just launched the Mega Drive in Japan, a system that poses a serious technical threat to the ageing Nintendo Famicom and the relatively new PC Engine, which had arrived the previous year. NEC and Hudson Soft, the two companies…
Dear Trailblazers, greetings from the Honkai: Star Rail dev team. Today, with great enthusiasm, we are thrilled to announce that the new realm of Honkai: Star Rail — Penacony — will unveil its mysterious veil in the forthcoming version 2.0, titled If One Dreams At Midnight. Additionally, we are excited to share that beyond introducing…
Cloud Nine is a relative newbie in the world of keyboards, as they’ve only been around since 2019. Its portfolio is also very small: Just two variants of the same C959 Ergo model, one ten keyless (the one being reviewed) and the other full-size. It’s an ergonomic keyboard and one with the main aspects required…
Caught Kawaslacking. The latest UK physical gaming charts are in, giving us our first indication of how Nintendo’s latest is performing on store shelves. You’ll have to scroll a little way to find the new first-party release this week, mind you, as Kirby Air Riders has missed out on a top 10 spot! The game…
Dark Castle series returns, just in time for its 40th anniversary. Two classic Macintosh platforming games, 1986’s Dark Castle and its 1987 sequel Beyond the Dark Castle, have made a surprising return on Steam. Built as a “living interactive animation” by a team that included Mark Pierce, Eric Zocher, and Jonathan Gay, Dark Castle was…
Old School RuneScape (OSRS) has a cancer, and that cancer is crime. Or, well, it’s repeated violations of Jagex’s terms of service, anyway. The game is beset by perfidious players who buy in-game gold and items off black market sellers using real-world money, a process called Real World Trading (RWT). Okay, yes, some version of…
Bethesda veteran and Skyrim lead designer Bruce Nesmith has done a new interview with PressBoxPR going over his considerable time at the studio: among the topics addressed are why Bethesda shouldn’t switch to Unreal Engine, Todd Howard’s “seagulling” habits, and one bit of deep cut lore that had PCG’s Joshua Wolens despairing. Nesmith is asked…
With his long silver hair, enormous odachi blade and epic theme song composed by legendary Nobuo Uematsu himself – Sephiroth is one of the most recognizable antagonists in RPG’s history. The one-winged angel debuted in the original Final Fantasy VII in 1997 as a once-loved war hero and first-class SOLDIER who descended into madness and…
Top Deal: As you wait impatiently for files to transfer from point A to points B and C, and as you spy stuttering in your in-home streams, have you ever thought to yourself, ‘There must be a better way?’ Well, there is, and it starts with tossing that 10-year-old router in the trash bin. You…
Mobile storage sharing made easy SanDisk today announced its new generation Connect Wireless Stick. About the size of a USB flash drive, the drive enables easy sharing and transferring of photos, videos, and other data between mobile devices and your PC. The primary selling point is wireless connectivity. We’re all used to plugging USB flash…