So far we’ve been thoroughly spoiled in Two Point Museum, treated with an abundance of free updates—from staff memorials to the ever-expanding Digiverse expedition map—and its first major paid DLC Fantasy Finds. Having recently completed Fantasy Finds, I was impressed at the sheer breadth of content and the incorporation of light RPG mechanics that let…
Ryu Hayabusa gets a second chance at 16-bit glory. Infidelity – the talented developer behind many NES ports to the SNES – has just released his latest project, just in time for Christmas. This time, we’ve got the entire NES Ninja Gaiden trilogy in a single ROM file, complete with CD-quality MSU-1 music supplied by…
There are so many options out there to upscale your retro game consoles in order to make them look better on modern TVs. You can use something like a Framemeister, RetroTink or OSSC, for instance, and the results can be stunning. The thing that all of these upscalers have in common, however, is that they’re…
Yesterday, things over on the Battlefield subreddit looked downright idyllic—or at least as idyllic as something can look when it’s packed full of footage of tanks toppling buildings and helicopters getting shot out of the sky. Thanks to a tidal wave of leaked Battlefield 6 footage, players were sharing their excitement about the series seemingly…
Five percent royalty rate still applies to commercial projects At last year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC), Epic Games made the decision to license its next generation Unreal Engine 4 to anyone and everyone for $19 per month, giving subscribers unfettered access to its complete C++ source code hosted in GitHub. If you sold and/or made…
You’ll find lots of bird nests when you first start playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. It seems like every time you walk through a forest, you come out the other end with around ten or so new ones marked on your map. Before you get a ranged weapon like a crossbow or bow, however, you…
Intel’s Enthusiast Channel VP and GM Robert Hallock has told PC Games Hardware that we shouldn’t underestimate the impact software improvements could have on gaming performance. In other words, that perhaps our focus as gamers shouldn’t be so laser-focused on hardware: “I truly believe that the general PC gaming market and especially enthusiasts… are significantly…
The Borderlands movie was bad in a way videogame movies rarely are these days. In an era when Hollywood hears the phrase “existing fandom” and their eyes roll around and come up dollar signs, the idea of an adaptation casually disrespecting the original seems almost nostalgic. But that’s exactly what the 2024 Borderlands movie did….
In these trying economic times, it is tempting to visit the website LinkedIn.com in search of gainful employment in the videogame business. On that dread portal one can find an endless parade of hucksters and hustlers promising they’re guarding the secret to success: a guaranteed six-figure career is just one $299.99 seminar away! Here on…
Yars’ Revenge is a video game released for the Atari 2600 in 1982. It was created by Howard Scott Warshaw and is Atari’s best-selling original game for the 2600. The player controls an insect-like creature called a Yar who must nibble or shoot through a barrier in order to fire its Zorlon Cannon into the…