“SNK×BEEP Athena Goods” features reprints of some classic merchandise from the ’80s. SNK is teaming up with the Japanese retro video game retailer Beep to rerelease some classic merchandise based on its old arcade titles Athena and Psycho Soldier (thanks Famitsu). The new merch is available now to order from Beep’s online store and includes…
I was six years old when my brother started using our family PC to play Old School RuneScape. I’d sit and watch him play without ever understanding what was going on, but the little people wore funny hats which was enough to keep me captivated. It took a few years before I decided it was…
Keep the extensions coming. Aside from the usual track additions, Nintendo occasionally performs Nintendo Music updates to tweak the content that’s there, rather than adding anything new. One such patch has been applied today, focusing on letting us all play tunes for longer. As brought to our attention on BlueSky by OatmealDome, the music app…
I’m not normally the sort of writer to yell “hurry up!” in a headline, but in this case I think it’s warranted. Jelly Key’s Sweet Theory artisan keycaps are available to buy for the next five hours or so, and I reckon you might want some. I do, for a start. You get your choice…
It’s Level Up time over at Fanatical, and you know what that means: time to distribute your stat points to some new skills and attributes. And by ‘stat points’ I mean ‘relatively small amounts of money,’ and by ‘skills and attributes’ I mean ‘absolute banger videogames.’ It’s a big old sale, in other words, and…
As a human being of a certain age, I’m starting to feel the urge to buy power tools I don’t really need purely because they might come in useful at some point in the future. I’ll always be a PC hardware obsessive, though, so this hard drive converted into a variable disc sander is right…
Teases a new project called the “Japan Advanced Institute of Technology”. If you’re familiar at all with the MSX story, Kazuhiko Nishi is a name that you’ve probably encountered in the past. Not only was he the founder of ASCII — the company that launched MSX in partnership with Microsoft — but he was also…
Do it, Capcom. Capcom has released updated sales figures for its most recent entries in the Resident Evil series, proving just how darn popular the survival horror franchise continues to be. Headlining the bunch is Resident Evil 4, the remake of the 2005 classic which has yet to see a release on Nintendo platforms. Capcom…
A bunch of other games have also joined GOG’s preservation program. Today, GOG has revealed that it has released the Capcom role-playing game Breath of Fire IV on its storefront, now updated for modern PCs and available DRM-free. The game will be included as part of the company’s preservation program, meaning that if you purchase…
GOG’s game preservation program has been busy since its November launch last year. Over 100 games are currently included in the company’s noble effort to not just get Good Old Games working on modern hardware but actively maintain them and even offer tech support for anyone who buys them. This protective promise covers everything from…