“For me, the real battle has just begun”. The quest to preserve and document the fascinating number of games produced for Japanese “keitai” feature phones is one we’ve been covering on this site for some time now, but one of the most epic endeavours in this field suddenly seems to be making better-than-expected progress. Like…
The Arm vs Qualcomm legal battle has been ongoing for a couple of years (can you believe it?). And while nothing’s been settled, Qualcomm now seems to be assigning motive to Arm which the semiconductor and software design company has pushed back against. According to Reuters, in court on Monday, Qualcomm’s legal team argued that…
Will you take on the challenge? Publisher Live Wire has announced that DODONPACHI SAIDAIOUJOU will be available on the Nintendo Switch eShop from today. The game is available now via the North American eShop for $34.99, though at the time of writing, it’s not yet visible via the EU eShop, and Live Wire has not…
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and the Christmas gift he’s delivering is “the first major patch for Stalker 2.” Patch 1.1 is out now, and its bulging, anomalous sack is full of over 1,800 fixes for AI, game balance, crashes and, most importantly, the first pokes at the game’s busted A-Life simulation systems….
The Crush 40 musician Johnny Gioeli claims Sega has breached their initial agreement. The Crush 40 musician and vocalist Johnny Gioeli is suing Sega of America for breach of contract, due to its use of the Sonic Adventure 2 song Live and Learn in “at least 25 video games”, as reported by Polygon (and supported…
Check out the new trailer. It has been quite a while since the tentatively titled ‘The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 1st’ made a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it appearance at the June 2024 Direct, but today Nihon Falcom and GungHo have given the upcoming remake a new trailer, a new title, and a release window…
Tap away! The MiSTer FPGA community is constantly coming up with cool ways to expand the system, and that includes amazing stuff like the TapTo NFC loading system (now known as Zaparoo), which allows you to instantly boot up a ROM using NFC cards, very much like loading a cartridge. This system has recently been…
Recent years have seen a powerful new breed of integrated GPUs populating mini-PCs. Thus armed, such machines offer an economical and delightfully dinky way to game at 1080p. If you’re looking for a compact PC with something closer to desktop-level games performance however, the options are rather thinner on the ground. Machines which fold discrete…
Never too late, eh? Johnny Gioeli, the Crush 40 musician and singer behind the iconic Sonic Adventure 2 track ‘Live and Learn‘, is suing SEGA of America over breach of contract for the song’s repeated use throughout the Sonic series (thanks, Polygon). According to Gioeli’s lawsuit (via Polygon), filed to the District Court of Southern…
Mega Man IV gets the DX treatment. A brand new colourization hack has just been released for the Mega Man Game Boy title, Mega Man IV, allowing players to experience the classic Nintendo Game Boy title with a fresh lick of paint. The hack is the work of Marc Robledo, who previously created similar patches…