Back to front. Given that arcade games have become something of a footnote in the world of video games, it’s easy to forget that once upon a time, they were at the forefront of the entire industry. Running on the most powerful hardware and attracting the cream of development talent, coin-op titles were instrumental in…
Update: More tracks get shared. There’s a common argument that the SNES had superior audio hardware to its rival, the Genesis / Mega Drive, and, on paper at least, that’s hard to contest. Nintendo’s Sony-made sound chip is capable of some amazing music and sound, while the Genesis’ Yamaha YM2612 is based more around an…
We’ve finally got our first official look at the Nintendo Switch 2, and the internet is very excited. Rightly so, I suppose, as the next-generation of Nintendo’s uber-popular handheld gaming console has been rumoured, speculated on, and pontificated about for some time. And while I hate to be the naysayer of the group (who am…
Launches next month. Blaze has revealed that the first two Broken Sword games are coming to the Evercade family of systems. Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars and Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror will ship on an Evercade Giga Cart and will be playable across all Evercade systems, as well as the Super…
A slew of superb handheld gaming PCs have wrestled me away from using my Nintendo Switch in recent years. I appreciate the happy-go-lucky Nintendo console and its ability to continue to function relatively well with ancient hardware, but my Steam library is calling to me. There’s only room in my backpack for one handheld machine…
Warhammer videogames have been pretty hit-and-miss over the years, to put it mildly—but Saber Interactive’s Space Marine 2 was firmly on the ‘hit’ side of the fence last year, reaching a player count of 4.5 million a month after launch and drawing more interest to the world’s most grimdark sci-fi setting than ever. Unsurprisingly, Games…
2 soon. They only went and did it! Yes, finally we can all relax and enjoy Nintendo’s new hardware: Switch 2 is real, it’s been officially revealed, and it’s looking a bit sexy. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
World of Warcraft’s Plunderstorm is back for another go from January 14 to February 18. If you’ve got no idea what I’m talking about, let me explain—Blizzard put a pirate Fortnite in their MMO. Why? Well, for the most part, the company’s making an attempt at branching out and evolving its existing game systems—having a…
The Summercart 64 is a new alternative to Everdrive flash carts. If you’re someone who likes to play your digital library of N64 games on real hardware, the go-to solution in the past has been to invest in an N64 flash cart, with the most popular options on the market arguably being the Everdrive X5…
The GTA 5 Liberty City Preservation Project (LCPP) was released this month after six years of work, recreating GTA 4’s unforgettable Liberty City within GTA 5’s game world. This was a seriously impressive piece of work, managing to bring over the entirety of Rockstar’s skewed New York and show it all off with GTA 5’s…