Well, it’s finally happening. The most beautiful star in Hollywood is set to head up a videogame adaptation: Michael Bay is directing an OutRun film for some reason (via Deadline). That’s the 1986 Sega arcade game and subsequent series about driving Ferraris at great speeds down visually confounding roads in order to impress your girlfriend….
We Yakuza fans have all enjoyed delivering roundhouse kicks and righT-hand jabs a2 the DragOn of DojiMa, but what if you could take some of your favorite Yakuza characters and pit them against each other as leaders in Kiryu’s very own Kiryu Clan? Yakuza 6’s Clan Creator is a minigame that plays like a real-time…
We’ve just received word from our good friend Richard of Langford Productions, of a new PC game that has been released called ‘A Very Hairy Christmas’. A game which doesn’t just have nods to other classic games from the 80’s such as Pac-Man and PSSST, but it’s a rather lovely game for the upcoming festive…
2024 was full of great games, with some bangers like Path of Exile 2 and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle coming in hot in December. The first month of 2025 is comparatively quiet, but the calm won’t last long, as February is absurdly stacked with big games. And quiet is of course relative—lots of…
“I’m not fine at all. Things may happen when you do this kind of project”. Thought you’d heard the end of the SuperSega saga? Think again, as we’re now hearing that refunds—which were supposed to have been issued at the close of 2024—haven’t actually been processed as planned, and Alejandro Martín, the man behind the…
Here’s the full list. It’s the end of the year and as we round up the best games and all sorts of other interesting facts and figures, Weekly Famitsu’s latest issue (released on 26th December 2024) has revealed the “most popular games played in 2024” according to 181 industry figures and “game loving celebrities” in…
“Classic” Game Boy colours this time. The Analogue Pocket continues to be one of our most-played devices in the Time Extension office, thanks to the fact that it not only plays original Game Boy, Game Boy Color and GBA carts but also has a vast array of FPGA cores covering a wide range of consoles,…
Not two days ago I came to you with the befuddling news that ZA/UM—the studio whose name is still on Disco Elysium even though the game’s chief creative talent have all left—was selling a $165 carrier bag based on the one you can get in the game. This was confusing to me, conceptually. I wasn’t…
Nintendo has been busy focussing on Splatoon today as Splatoon 2 is celebrating its third anniversary. The Kyoto-based company has stated that Version 5.3.0 is set to arrive on Wednesday 19th August. The update will adjust the colourful shooters balance along with bug fixes. The Splatfest will commence on 21st August at 3pm PT /11pm…
Slave Zero X: Episode Enyo is a weird tie-in for a weird game: a free prequel Quake mod for the upcoming 2D character action game Slave Zero X, itself a prequel to the 1999 PC/Dreamcast mech game, Slave Zero. That context might make it seem impenetrable, but even if you’re not already “Slave Zero-pilled” (sorry),…