All will be made available on “new platforms”. Atari and Ubisoft have announced that Atari has acquired the IP rights to five Ubisoft-published games with a view to make them available on new platforms. The games in question are Cold Fear, I Am Alive, Child of Eden, Grow Home, and Grow Up. Notably, none of…
“If I stayed at Sega any longer, l’d die soon”. The world of Japanese video game development has never been an easy one, but during the ’80s and ’90s it was especially harsh, at least for the staff of certain studios. As documented in Time Extension contributor John Szczepaniak’s peerless ‘Untold History’ series of books,…
Marcos Healey left Media Molecule back in 2023. The Media Molecule co-founder Marcos Healey might have left the company back in 2023, but he is still hard at work on LittleBigPlanet. That is, his Commodore 64 demake of the game. Recently, on Twitter/X, he offered another update on the project that has been in development…
DL-Seen and not DL-Heard. We are quickly closing in on 2025′ next high-profile arcade racer, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, and SEGA keeps adding more and more characters to its rapidly expanding roster. Those loaded up on the game’s Season Pass and DLC will see the likes of Steve and Alex from Minecraft, SpongeBob SquarePants and Persona…
Originally launched in Japan in 1999. Human Entertainment’s Clock Tower is one of the most influential survival horror titles of the ’90s, and has thankfully been given a new lease of life recently thanks to the release of Clock Tower Rewind. The original Super Famicom game was ported to the PS1, but it also came…
Will focus on expanding Nintendo movie adaptations into other mediums. Nintendo has announced that it is renaming its subsidiary company ‘Warpstar Inc.’ to ‘Nintendo Stars Inc.’ following its consolidation earlier this year. Warpstar Inc. – founded on 31st July 2001 – had previously been a joint venture between Nintendo and Hal Laboratory to oversee the…
“With enough time and dedication…”. When the Mega Drive / Genesis first arrived on the market, it was bolstered by ports of some of Sega’s greatest arcade titles. Golden Axe was one of them, and proved to be something of a system-seller thanks to the fact that it was incredibly close to the coin-op original….
80 is the new 50. Niantic’s popular augmented reality mobile game Pokémon GO will be getting an update in October, raising the level cap from 50 to 80. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Ubisoft has reached into the back of the cupboard, grabbed the intellectual property rights for five games it wasn’t doing anything with, and sold them to Atari. The five games are Cold Fear (which is basically Resident Evil on a boat), I Am Alive (a post-apocalyptic survival platformer), Child of Eden (a psychedelic rhythm game),…
Have you tried them out yet? At the end of July, Nintendo released an update for the Switch Online Super Nintendo app adding Mario Paint. This update included mouse support (for Switch 2 Joy-Con 2 controllers and USB mouse compatibility), as well as the ability to remap buttons. The same update also included mouse support…