Before you get to start slaying dragons or thwarting the plans of evil deities, RPGs tend to test your mettle with more mundane fare. Typically this involves a filthy tavern with a rodent problem. It’s such an ancient trope that RPG designers have been poking fun at it for decades, like 2004’s The Bard’s Tale,…
Stretching it? With the release date of the Switch 2 now so close I can barely sit still on the toilet, I’ve been having a little wonder to myself about what stuff, besides that new console smell and a brand new Mario Kart game, has got me most excited for my latest child’s arrival. That’s…
Company recently moved to a new location in Chiswick Business Park. Back in 2023, Sega announced that it had tracked down and painstakingly restored the Sonic the Hedgehog statue that once stood in London’s short-lived SegaWorld indoor theme park. That statue has now taken pride of place in the company’s new office, based in Chiswick…
Ticket-y boo. Nintendo has revealed the latest update for Tetris 99 (ver. 2.5.0), introducing a new way to pick up previous event themes… not that you’d know that if you’ve read the English patch notes. As brought to our attention on BlueSky by @OatmealDome, the patch notes appear to have been a little muddled in…
Mostly ‘armless? Polish developer 7Levels has announced that it’s bringing its 2018 platformer, Castle of Heart, back to your Switch screens this summer (plus other platforms – and Switch 2, at some TBA time), with a revamped version of its Slavic mythology-inspired dark fantasy adventure. We reviewed the original back in March of 2018, calling…
Radio NECstalgia is now available online. A new radio station has just been launched for fans of NEC’s PC Engine. Radio NECstalgia is available to listen to online for free on Netlify and was recently brought to our attention thanks to the NEC super fan and La Bible PC Engine author Sébastien Valencia. It was…
Denied! Nintendo has quietly updated its Nintendo Today! mobile app in an apparent effort to prevent users from capturing its promotional videos and sharing them elsewhere. Although the update has not been publicly detailed by Nintendo, Reddit user Cube_play_8 has uploaded a video demonstrating that screen recordings of footage from Nintendo Today! now result in…
From the developers of ‘Double Dragon One’. It looks like Irem’s submarine-based shooter In the Hunt could be getting a new enhanced port for Neo Geo hardware, thanks to the homebrew developer Casa De Ruivo. This is the same team (comprised of Ozzy and Johnny16Bit) that is also behind Double Dragon One — an upcoming…
It might be “putting on some weight”. Rechargeable batteries are found in pretty much every piece of consumer electronics these days and are a wonderful inclusion when you want portable power without the need for old-school disposable batteries. However, they don’t last forever—and, in some cases, when they reach the end of their operational life…
A month to remember..? We don’t know about you, but with the Switch 2 right around the corner, a new Nintendo Direct is honestly the last thing on our minds right now. Alas, we do need to know more about the year ahead: what’s Nintendo’s big ‘Holiday game’? When will Metroid Prime 4: Beyond launch?…