The best of both worlds. Optical drives are often the first thing to fail on retro consoles, which is why so many people choose to swap out their disc drives for an Optical Disc Emulator – effectively, a device which replaces the drive and allows you to load games from solid-state media. We’ve seen the…
If you’ve been struggling to get into Helldivers 2, you can at least take some small measure of comfort in knowing you’re not alone. Servers are crushed, matchmaking isn’t working properly, and some clever diehards are trying to avoid the queue issues by simply staying logged in overnight, a strategy enabled by the lack of…
Frogs (the animal) have become an indie darling in the past couple of years—as our former features producer Nat Clayton pointed out last year, people like ’em. They’re round, they’re cute, they’re in Frog Detective, what’s not to like? A lot. Listen, I like a little round green guy as much as the next person,…
Vulkan has landed Remember AMD’s proprietary Mantle API? It died an unceremonious death a year ago, but large bits and pieces of it were picked up by The Khronos Group, a non-profit industry consortium that promotes and develops open standard APIs. Those pieces formed the foundation of Vulkan, which itself is the next iteration of…
Hello friends, and welcome back! You might have noticed that we’re publishing the Top Downloads list for December a bit later than we usually do, but we hope you’ll agree that it’s for good reason. We took the liberty of tracking down the charts for the whole year! You’ll find the top downoads for all…
A genuine blast. A few months ago, the Switch finally received Pizza Tower, an indie action platformer that’s gotten a lot of praise for how well it channels Nintendo’s long-dormant Wario Land series. Yet developer Tour de Pizza wasn’t the only team inspired by Wario. Summitsphere’s Antonblast is a wild and wonderful action platformer that…
Bandai Namco has confirmed this afternoon on Twitter that Namco Museum Archives: Volume 1 and 2 for Nintendo Switch will launch on Thursday 18th June. For those confused, this package is the same as the Namcot Collection which will be coming the very same day in Japan. Namco Museum Archives: Volume 1 and 2 each…
BS Detective Club was originally distributed for the Nintendo Satellaview in 1997. When Nintendo announced back in 2019 that it was releasing a pair of remakes of the Famicom Detective Club games The Missing Heir and The Girl Who Stands Behind — and better yet that they were being published internationally — it initially came…
Xbox team decides to join the PC Gaming Show Microsoft today announced that its Xbox team will be participating in PC Gamer’s new PC Gaming Show. In a move that might surprise many PC gamers, Microsoft indicated that its intent is to demonstrate the power of Windows 10 and how the new OS will make…
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