Alan Wake 2 was beloved by critics when it launched in October last year, with our own Robin Valentine awarding it a score of 89 in his Alan Wake 2 review calling it “a glorious sprawl of surreal horror” that “will stay with you long after you’ve seen every terrifying encounter, cheesy manuscript page, and…
It’s time to see which PS5, PS4, PS VR2, and free-to-play games topped last month’s download charts. In July, Call of Duty: Black Ops II dominated the charts for PS5 and PS4 in the US and EU. While I Am Cat became the number one PS VR2 game in the US and EU. Check out…
“Golden Tee is a cultural phenomenon”. Those of you old enough to remember playing trackball golf arcade games in your local public house will be pleased to learn that emulation specialist Digital Eclipse is bringing Incredible Technologies’ Golden Tee games to modern-day systems. Golden Tee Arcade Classics will feature eight of the developer’s golf titles,…
From out of reach to the next cool accessory We’ll risk putting on our prognosticator hat and tell you that in years to come, the past 12 months will be thought of as the year consumer-grade 3D printing had its coming out party. Of course, there were earlier adopters, and there will also be stragglers,…
With a special focus on “2D action games”. 2025 is just kicking off and various video game companies and industry figures have been sharing their plans for the year ahead. As for the Japanese developer Inti Creates, it hopes to announce “several titles” this year. Unsurprisingly a major focus will be placed on its signature…
Surveys say that today’s youth are more interested in stories about platonic friendships and social groups than romance and sex, and game developers are taking note of that and other trends in teen media consumption. To a crowd of games industry professionals at D.I.C.E. Summit last week, TV executive turned game studio founder Sharon Tal…
Back at it again. Hot on the heels of a bunch of Switch 2 Editions, Nintendo announced a brand-new game in the Xenoblade series, Xenoblade Genesis. This one will launch at some point in 2027, and it looks… big. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Holy Moly! A book I have been waiting for since I was a kid. The NES Book of maps. The most popular games and the maps behind the madness. It is so gratifying seeing all these 8-bit maps and art from the old days. It really brings back memories. SOLD OUT Over 200 NES &…
Go Go Gadget, multi-jump! Hudson Soft and AIM’s 1993 Inspector Gadget game for the SNES has just received a new ROM Hack, bringing with it a bunch of cool tweaks and quality-of-life improvements to the cartoon sidescroller. The original game, in case you’re unfamiliar, saw players take control of the cybernetically enhanced police detective, as…
Maybe you’re too young to remember Kickboxer, the 1989 martial arts movie where Jean-Claude Van Damme learns Muay Thai in a training montage, kicks down a banana tree, and dances in a way that suggests his ballet training was all for naught. Even as someone who wasted a good chunk of my life watching martial…