The Bitmap Brothers classic steps back a generation. A C64 fan is working on bringing The Bitmap Brothers’ legendary Amiga shooter The Chaos Engine to the 8-bit home computer. Marv (@MoreC64) has a tall task relocating the 16-bit classic to somewhat humbler hardware, but his work-in-progress footage is showing promise, as you can see below:…
Ashes and APIs When last we looked at Ashes of the Singularity, it was one of the first DX12 titles with a benchmark that we could test, but it was also very early. Six months later, the second playable race is in place, and Oxide has had a lot more time to work on refining…
Could you imagine gaming without handhelds? While that section of the market is still dominated by Nintendo today, that hasn’t always been the case. Way before the Nintendo Game Boy, there was a market for one-off handheld games made by Coleco and even Nintendo’s Game and Watch series that mystified gamers and made them wonder…
A press release for Join Us, a multiplayer cult-shepherding game that debuted with a trailer at today’s PC Gaming Show Tokyo Direct, points out that “a cult leader with no followers is just a lonely weirdo.” As a weirdo who considers himself both prolific and surrounded by my weird peers, I’m happy to put my…
“You can make a Pokémon cooking tutorial with just one prompt”. OpenAI recently released its dedicated Sora App, which is being pitched as a rival to TikTok and Instagram, with the key difference being that all the videos are generated via the Sora 2 video generation model. As is the case with many of these…
The dataminers appear to have struck some hypothetical gold while panning for details in, bemusingly, Cataclysm Classic’s public test realm (PTR) of all places. In case you aren’t in the know, player housing—an oft-requested feature of the 20 year old MMO—is absolutely coming to World of Warcraft in the game’s next expansion, Midnight. The only…
Of all the various trinkets and doodads that find their way across my desk and into my loving arms, rarely is there one that tidies my workspace. But that’s what this Thermaltake pegboard does, and it does so in a rather simple but stylish way. Smart and sturdy: that’s how I’d describe this pegboard. But…
It turns out that being a one man criminal cleanup crew is hard work. I have spent a staggering amount of time virtually power washing filthy buildings in the past, which is why Crime Scene Cleaner piqued my interest as I scrolled through this year’s list of Next Fest demos. With a darker premise than…
I’m thrilled to share that Lost Soul Aside is officially out today on PlayStation 5 console and PC via Steam and the Epic Game Store, and you can also jump in with a free playable demo starting today! Play Video From the very beginning, this project was born out of a dream to create fast,…
Nintendo has unleashed a brand new trailer for the upcoming Zelda: Breath of the Wild prequel, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. The trailer features plenty of action-packed scenes, as you would expect, and it also features Hestu who is fully voiced this time around. The short trailer also reveals that each hero has a trusty…