“The Casino was an original idea from my imagination”. Ever since the release of issue #4 of Legends of the Dark Knight Volume 2 in 2021, people have been drawing comparisons online between the design of the Riddler’s Gotham Casino hideout and the casino area from Sonic Adventure’s Station Square. And it’s easy to see…
Banishing bad ads Like it or not, ads are a large reason why much of the content you see on the web is free to access (versus sitting behind a paywall). Maybe that will change in the coming years, but for now, it’s simply how the web works. Be that as it may, it’s not…
Extreme Offence. Well hi there, and welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl! Last week, we checked out Resident Evil: Code Veronica X for the GameCube, and would you believe it, we have a tie! Yes, both North America and Europe bagged 38% of the vote each, leaving Japan trailing with 25%. We’re not…
[embedded content] [embedded content] The new JAWS games make their debut at Stern Pinball’s official booth (#16254) at CES 2024 CHICAGO, IL – January 4, 2024 – Stern Pinball, Inc. announces their newest pinball games featuring JAWS, one of the most iconic motion picture thrillers of all time from Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment. Players…
What if your loved ones suddenly vanished? What if you realized your most precious memories were slowly slipping away? Such is the premise of Lost Sphear, the second project from Square Enix’s Tokyo RPG Factory, the studio that hopes its latest genre entry will also stir the memories of those of us reared on 90’s…
Electronic Arts has officially now passed into the hands of Saudi Arabia—specifically, the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, as well as firms Silver Lake and Affinity Partners. It is with a grim lack of surprise that I now inform you that this will, reportedly, involve a lot of layoffs. The news comes courtesy of Bloomberg’s…
The PC gaming industry is now essentially a repeating cycle of product announcements generating an excitable ‘ooh’ followed immediately by a sigh of recognition: this isn’t for me. Case in point is my reaction upon hearing about the “most powerful gaming laptop on the planet”—‘ooh!’—followed by the immediate dual recognition that this will be very…
“We had a lot of creative freedom”. After rinsing through Blasphemous 2 in 2023, we immediately turned our attention to the future and began to dream about what a potential third game in the series might look like. How little we knew. Of course, another Blasphemous may still be on the cards at some point,…
Nintendo has confirmed today that three new amiibo figures are coming next year as part of the Super Smash Bros Ultimate collection. The three amiibos are Terry, Banjo-Kazooie and Byleth. All three of these characters are available in-game as paid downloadable content. These new amiibo figures are scheduled to launch sometime in 2021.
About This Episode Photo-realism in video games is commonplace now, but for decades, storage and technology limitations meant blocky figures were the best we could get. But as the tech evolved, the use of actual video started to enhance the game experience. In this Backtrack, we look back at the rise and legacy of FMV:…