The game is this week’s Arcade Archives release. Namco’s 1988 ice hockey game Face Off is heading to Nintendo Switch and PS4 as part of Hamster’s ongoing series of arcade reissues (thanks Famitsu!). The game will be released digitally on Thursday, February 8th in Japan, with the title expected to hit Western storefronts shortly after….
Oh, Thomas the Tank Engine, you delightful locomotive: How we love you and your haunting homunculi visage, your community of animate rail engines, your diligent adherence to the tasks of Sir Topham Hatt, your habit of getting launched with incredible violence by an inscrutable malfunction of physical law. Okay, so that last bit is a…
About two weeks ago, a user on X by the name of Cear Dragon posted that two of their limited AtariXP carts – Haunted House & Crystal Castles – were defective. Haunted House, he claimed, had the PCB inserted backwards and Crystal Castles, he said, was buggy and unplayable. As these were limited releases, it…
Things aren’t looking so hot for Funcom’s sci-fi desert survival MMO Dune: Awakening. After the strongest launch in the Norwegian studio’s history, Funcom announced layoffs at the start of October, citing a shift from “development to long-term operation” as well as an upcoming console launch as the reasons for restructuring. But there may be another…
For years, the developers of Final Fantasy have fretted that a big audience will no longer show up for turn-based games: that to make a flashy, expensive RPG these days, it’s all about the action. Perhaps that’s true when you need a game to sell in the tens of millions, but within the same period…
Valve is making changes to Steam pricing in Argentina and Turkey that will see game sales in those countries switched from their local currencies—the Argentine peso and Turkish lira—to US dollars. The change is being made to address “exchange rate volatility” that Valve says has made it difficult for developers to set and maintain prices…
This week’s Top Downloads list kicks off with Hello Games’ ambitious exploration opus, No Man’s Sky, which tops PlayStation Store’s PS4 chart. Just behind it is this year’s installment of EA’s seminal sports series, Madden NFL 17. Battlefield hype is high, with BF4 surging to the number 3 spot just ahead of Battlefield 1’s release…
You’re forgiven if you’d forgotten about Star Wars: Eclipse. After being revealed with a flashy cinematic trailer in 2021, all we heard about Quantic Dreams’ Star Wars game was the briefest of mentions in a blog post by studio founder and CEO David Cage last year, in which he said, “Of course, development of Star…
It hopes “at some point” to use Nintendo’s characters. Fortnite has had just about every crossover at this stage from Dragon Ball and Marvel to LEGO, but the one brand Epic believes could top them all is….drum roll… Nintendo! Speaking to Axios in Los Angeles this week, the head of Fortnite’s ecosystem Saxs Persson admitted…
Seven Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) vehicles attended Rockstar North HQ in Edinburgh this morning, after an explosion rocked the building at around 5am local time. The fire crews spent around three hours securing the scene, with a cordon put in place around the building. No-one was injured during the incident. “We were alerted…