Nightdive Studios has a clear mission: to bring back “lost and forgotten gaming treasures”. This cause has seen the studio remaster oldies like Quake, System Shock, and recently, Dark Forces, the first game made on Lucas’ Jedi Engine, but not the last. “When Nightdive looks at titles, we sometimes look at popularity,” Larry Kuperman, VP…
Defectors! (NES) and Warrior of Rome III (SNES) never saw release back in the day. Piko Interactive has announced that it has secured the rights to two cancelled games from defunct developer Equilibrium. The two games are Defectors! (NES) and Warrior of Rome III (SNES). Read the full article on timeextension.com Defectors! (NES) and Warrior…
Way back in 1982, Coreland published by Sega released the Arcade game of ‘Pengo’, A maze like game in which playing as a penguin, you must survive each round by eliminating all Sno-Bees and Sno-Bee eggs with sliding blocks, while optionally lining up the three diamond blocks for a large bonus. Well today’s news is…
Brave Wave Productions broke the news of Masashi Kageyama’s passing earlier today. Masashi Kageyama, the Japanese musician and composer behind the music to the Famicom/NES platformer Gimmick, has sadly passed away at the age of 62, following a battle with stomach cancer. Brave Wave Productions, a record company that had recently been working with Kageyama…
Gotta trace those rays. Star Wars Outlaws is out now on the Switch 2 (a fact you might have missed thanks to last week’s furore around Hollow Knight: Silksong) and now the tech experts over at Digital Foundry have provided their analysis of the game’s performance on Nintendo’s new hardware. Despite some concerns pre-launch, Outlaws…
Horror homage. In the run-up to the launch of Bloober Team’s new IP, Cronos: The New Dawn, chances are you saw one or two (or ten) comparisons to EA’s Dead Space series. And yes, while there are definitely some similarities between the two, I’d feel more comfortable describing Cronos as an amalgamation of nearly every…
TSMC has released a promotional video on YouTube, showing off all the hard work it’s put into the construction and operation of its brand new facility, TSMC Arizona. Situated in the open desert just outside of the state capital, Phoenix, the chipmaking facility is shown to be utterly vast, from its huge, solar panel-fronted footprint…
Puzzling out how to get a needle upgrade in Hollow Knight: Silksong, as well as tracking down Pale Oil for subsequent upgrades, can be a bit of a challenge. In comparison to Hollow Knight, enemies in Silksong are both tankier and deal a lot more damage, so you’ll want to upgrade your weapon as soon…
Harvey Randall, Staff Writer (Image credit: Future) This week I’ve been: Playing Silksong, in case it wasn’t obvious. Last week I was: Thinking too much about Borderlands 4’s story, and being proven wrong by FF14’s primo challenge runner about MMOs. If you’ve been paying attention to the discourse—I wouldn’t blame you for not doing so—around…
Silksong‘s out, and folks are playing it—they’re also throwing their controllers, gnashing their teeth, and doing a lot of complaining about masks, if the r/Silksong subreddit is to be believed. As someone currently arm-deep in Pharloom myself and having a whale of a time, I have plenty of thoughts about that—but first, let’s see what…