Arcade gaming has created some of the most immediately recognisable and iconic hardware in the videogame scene. Nothing quite spells old school charm quite like an arcade machine complete with a full complement of tactile buttons and switches. With arcade style fighting games still being huge in the tournament scene, these have continued to evolve…
Category: Games October 14, 2025 Feed Your Own Dark Fantasies in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 Alex SkidmoreProject Creative Director, The Chinese Room Summary Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 offers many ways to play. Build your power set to embody an elder vampire that suits your style. Use difficulty options to lean into…
“not only Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda”. Nintendo designer and legend Shigeru Miyamoto says he wants to expand Nintendo’s IP outside of video games to include “new characters” beyond Mario and Zelda. Speaking at Nintendo’s recent investor Q&A (the official the English translation has now been published), one of the 19 questions put…
“We’ll keep you posted”. Developer ININ Games has issued a statement regarding some of the technical issues plaguing R-Type Dimensions III. The game launched to mixed reception and earned a score of 5/10 from us. We said, “there’s no getting around the fact that the developer has made a mess of the accuracy. Purists will…
It’s rare that a game as old as the venerable Tomb Raider gets an update, and you’d think it’d be cause for celebration. Not necessarily so with the newest patch that came to Tomb Raider I-III Remastered last Thursday, which came bearing a new challenge mode and 10 new outfits that, well, just have a…
“Kenta Cho?” I take a slow puff on my pipe as I stare into the distance. “Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time…” Way back when I was obsessed with 2D schmups, I’d tell anyone with ears to check out Kenta Cho’s amazing games: often small, often built around a single…
Core replicates 99% of original hardware speed. While emulation is constantly pushing forward from generation to generation, there remain some aged outliers yet to be completely conquered. Notably, the 3D arcade scene of the 1990s, despite its vintage, is particularly problematic when it comes to emulation – typically due to the very specific, formative, rare,…
Good news, Goggins-heads: It looks like work is proceeding apace on Fallout season 2. In an Instagram post uploaded yesterday, Ella Purnell uploaded a celebratory selfie with costar and fictional dad Kyle MacLachlan to commemorate the end of filming for Fallout’s second season. If you’re wondering, yes: Walton Goggins made his own announcement, by which…
EA Sports WRC Players everywhere can now build the car of their dreams in Codemasters’s biggest rally game ever – EA Sports WRC. EA Play Members can get behind the wheel now with a 5-hour early access trial and score five unlockable cosmetics and an exclusive Moment each season, and get 10% off on Rally…
Category: Developer_Direct January 21, 2025 How to Watch Xbox Developer_Direct 2025 on Thursday Joe Skrebels, Xbox Wire Editor-in-Chief Developer_Direct returns this Thursday, January 23 at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern / 6pm UK, and will bring you a deep-dive into some of the incredible games on the way for Xbox players this year. The show…