Aye, Robot. With Switch 2 now hosting Wind Waker, SoulCalibur and the like, have you got a case of GameCube fever? If so, Misc. A Tiny Tale might be just the soothing ointment you need to apply generously all over your body. Lead developer Michael Pearce has said it was inspired by the games of…
“This was the most fun I’ve had working on anything in years”. We recently reported on the fact that Supercell – famous for its smartphone games – had teamed up with a bunch of former EMAP journalists to create Super Cellphone Gamer, a promotional magazine based on the legendary Mean Machines, one of the UK’s…
Safeguard Drac’s pumpkin garden. While the original Donkey Kong is arguably one of the most famous (and important) games in Nintendo’s history, its sequels are slightly less well-known and certainly struggled to match Kong’s explosive debut in terms of commercial and critical acclaim. Despite this, they actually enhanced and evolved the gameplay, with 1983’s Donkey…
If you get the error message, head to the contact page. It’s come to light since Switch 2 launched that Nintendo is cracking down on people who make copies of its software — legitimate or otherwise — by ‘banning’ consoles it detects playing copies of Switch 1 games – a worry for anyone considering a…
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 is all about fast, frantic fun, but that’s not to say you won’t benefit from a little helping hand when it comes to pulling off more elaborate tricks, which is where game mods come in incredibly handy. If you’re wondering about whether or not the cheats used in…
“soon I’ll be catching up to his age, won’t I?”. Masahiro Sakurai has taken to social media to provide a small, but welcome update on Kirby Air Riders while also paying tribute to Satoru Iwata, the former president of Nintendo who passed away on 11th July 2015. As reported by Automaton, Sakurai states that Kirby…
“Composed and designed to run on actual Amiga computers”. German electro-pop composer Denis Karimani – better known as Remute – has cornered the market when it comes to creating albums which run on retro gaming hardware. He’s already produced albums for the SNES, C64, Game Boy and Mega Drive / Genesis, and now it’s the…
It all used to be better, you know. The sun shone, cool winds caressed amber cornfields, everyone got all the Christmas presents they asked for, and real-time strategy was the dish of the day—the genre Goliath to which all others were mere Davids. Except they were losing. They were like David but they lost. I’m…
Every time a game you loved when you were younger gets a remake, you’re bound to feel a bit concerned about whether or not it’ll be any good, and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 definitely struck that worry in me when it was announced. I grew up spending a decent amount of time…
Aggro Crab and Landfall have been hard at work polishing up Peak for players to enjoy. What started out as a simple jam game or a way to take a break from bigger projects quickly snowballed into something more, as it was able to sell two million copies in just nine days. The devs already…