Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Several game development veterans walk into a bar. After a few drinks, they come up with the idea to create a game inspired by one of their previous successes. A kind witch hears their wish and grants them millions of dollars to create said game. The bewildered-but-grateful…
You cannot beat Japanese packaging. Long-time readers of Time Extension will be keenly aware of Bitmap Bureau’s quest to release its top-down shooter Xeno Crisis on every consumer device known to man; what began life as a Mega Drive release has since expanded to N64, SNES, Dreamcast and beyond, with the most recent conquest being…
“It was a nightmare”. It’s fair to say that Capcom’s Final Fight Revenge isn’t the franchise’s finest hour. Developed for Sega’s Titan arcade board and Saturn home console at the tail-end of the 1990s, it was created not in Japan but in the US by Capcom Digital Studios, an outfit that would later work on…
A Meta policy document obtained by Reuters stated that it was acceptable for the Facebook company’s AI chatbots to have “romantic or sensual” conversations with children. Meta confirmed the document’s authenticity to Reuters and told the outlet that it has now removed the guidelines in question, which said it was OK for bots “to engage…
World of Goo 2, sequel to the beloved 2008 physics-puzzler about building towers and bridges out of wibbly wobbly slime balls, will slop onto Steam this spring following almost a year of exclusivity on the Epic Games Store. “ATTENTION Steam fans! We’ve been quietly readying World of Goo 2 for new platforms”, wrote developers 2DBoy…
“One of the best Gradius clones I’ve ever played”. Doujin shmup Spolous has a sequel, and it’s free to download. As spotted by Crypticus on social media, Spolous II is a side-scrolling 2.5D shooter with music by Naoya Kamisaka. The visuals hint at a fusion of Konami’s Gradius and Techno Soft’s Thunder Force, which is…
If you’re into Genshin Impact and The Seven Deadly Sins manga series, then oh boy do I have good news for you. Netmarble’s spun up its own Genshin-inspired gacha RPG set in the anime universe, and of course the gacha part of the equation means we’ve got Seven Deadly Sins: Origin codes to go with…
Less than two months after releasing the open-world survival game RuneScape: Dragonwilds into early access on Steam, Jagex has laid off an unspecified number of employees. The studio says the vast majority of cuts are being made in “non-game development roles,” and won’t have any impact on the future development. The layoffs first came to…
Earth becomes a living nightmare as demons take over the planet and push humanity to the brink of extinction. Now, it’s up to players to once again become the legendary Doom Slayer and rip and tear their way through the hordes of Hell in Doom Eternal. As the hordes of Hell evolved, so too has…
Paul Atreides always had a tube stuck up his nose, but bro: how about clapping some cans over your ears instead? Maybe Muad’Dib wouldn’t have incited a jihad that killed billions if he’d spent less time looking into the nightmarish future and more time listening to the groovy past. You won’t have that problem in…