It’s rude to stare, but I’ll make an exception if you’re looking for Stareweed in 99 Nights in the Forest. You’ll need it for making potions as part of the Halloween event, and while most ingredients are easy to find, this one isn’t so straightforward. Unlike the other event plants, you’ll have a few extra…
Image & Form Games’s relationship with Nintendo has always been strong with the developer and their SteamWorld franchise always popping up on Nintendo consoles. The studio has gone on to develop multiple titles that have often gone down favourably with gamers. But now, according to Brjann Sigurgeirsson, the CEO of developer Image & Form, they’re…
Monochrome marvels. Nintendo certainly isn’t short on hugely influential, million-selling pieces of hardware, but the original Game Boy is perhaps the first system produced by the Japanese giant that became a desirable, almost ubiquitous consumer product brand. There’s a well-known anecdote – which may or may not be apocryphal – that claims a high-ranking Sony…
“We are actively progressing with our phased plan”. A number of Amico games have just been released on Nintendo Switch and Steam, with the company behind the troubled console, Amico Entertainment, still insisting that Amico hardware is the goal (thanks VGC for the spot!). Finnigan Fox and Evel Knievel are now available to purchase now…
Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare, known as Tony to friends, has died at the age of 92. One of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing, he invented the Quicksort algorithm after a bet with his boss, later devised Hoare logic (a system for rigorously assessing the correctness of a program), and was…
The Talos Principle 3, the third and final chapter of one of the least-expected videogame series of all time, was made official today, and much like the jump from the first game to the second, it promises a familiar slate of puzzles wrapped in a very different sort of narrative experience. The teaser doesn’t reveal…
Also known as ‘kross-play’. Mortal Kombat 1 didn’t have the best start on the Nintendo Switch, but it’s slowly improved over time with some patches fixing up all areas of the game. It seems Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon also wants to enhance the game’s online mode, with the industry veteran recently sharing a poll…
Big Box not included. Wonderful news for all dungeon crawlers, as the ScummVM team has announced that FTL Games’ genre-defining adventure Dungeon Master is now supported by everybody’s favourite Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine. Released in 1987 for the Atari ST, before being ported to myriad computer and console platforms, Dungeon Master…
The information comes courtesy of the latest issue of Edge Magazine. In a recent issue of Edge Magazine, the Star Fox artist and character designer Takaya Imamura shared some details on how the game’s iconic cast came to be. This included offering an insight into how he modelled the character of Fox McCloud on the…
Mindwave is an upcoming WarioWare-like game in which players join a giant game show. They must master various minigames and slowly climb the levels in hopes of winning the cash prize of $10 million (in the game, not real life, sadly). Despite not being able to beat the final-level boss, I loved my time with…