Better late than never. Though Shantae has become well-established today as a recognisable indie gaming icon, there was once a time when the purple-haired half-genie hero struggled to find an audience. The original Shantae released for the GBC in 2002 and suffered poor sales, which led to publishers being unwilling to pick up the tab…
We’ve been reporting on toasted AMD AM5 CPU sockets for a while now. Back in April, a Reddit thread catalogued over 100 dead CPUs. AMD then told us, “Following a joint investigation, AMD and ASRock identified a memory compatibility issue present in earlier BIOS versions, which has been rectified in the latest BIOS.” However, in…
“Too much life in the way, too many bugs left”. YoomTah, the developer behind the ‘Banjo-Kazooie Grunty’s Revenge Redone’ mod for Banjo-Kazooie, has announced that the project is ending. Described as an “N64 Reimagining of the GBA game Banjo-Kazooie Grunty’s Revenge,” the mod was aiming to feature “7 complete worlds, custom music, and beta content.”…
There’s nothing quite like a good videogame map, whether you just like to sit back and take in the view or claw your way through cracks in the wall on the hunt for collectables. And in the case of NCsoft’s upcoming MMO FPS, Cinder City has both, well, if you find time to admire the…
Of the many things that keep me awake at night—tinnitus, climate collapse, the fourth coffee of the day, man’s inhumanity to man—none is more pressing than the continued and inexplicable absence of Beamdog-style Enhanced Editions for Fallout 1 and 2. I don’t ask for much: just versions of the classics that run out-of-the-box at modern…
Windows 11 has picked up a fair bit of ire, and for understandable reasons. In the last year alone, we’ve seen reports of undeletable caches and some SSDs not playing nice with the software. Well, if you want a “purely AI” alternative from the man who ruined Twitter, Elon Musk has a bridge to sell…
“We kindly ask for your continued support of EGG console in the future”. It has been revealed that the EGGCONSOLE versions of Fray and Brandish Renewal are being removed from digital distribution. The move was confirmed by the publisher today, with no reason given for the removal. Read the full article on timeextension.com “We kindly…
Borderlands 3’s story is… interesting. As someone who has played most of Gearbox’s loot’em shoot’ems, I agree with the general consensus that 3’s story is kinda the worst. Mind, I’ve never hopped into Pandora’s (or its associated moons’) deep narrative—but after hours of outdated memes, when a certain character sacrificed themselves to Beyonce’s “This Girl…
“47, your target is Frame Rate”. IO Interactive has launched a new update for Hitman: World of Assassination – Signature Edition on the Switch 2. The key improvement here is the game’s frame rate, which at launch failed to maintain its 60fps target at frequent intervals. The patch adds in a ‘Frame Rate’ option to…
Over 20 years later, it’s almost time to sneak back into the Soviet-controlled jungle in the long-awaited MGS3 remake, confusingly called Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater. Whether you’re looking to relive old memories or experience MGS3 for the first time, Delta: Snake Eater brings a bunch of great changes over the original, from improved…