Pajapiko is described as “a gaming slumber party”. Masayuki Kibe, a writer known for his involvement in the Japanese variety show Game Center CX has just launched a new video-game-themed game show on TV Asahi (as spotted by Gosokkyu!) The show, which is called Pajapiko, is described as a “gaming slumber party” and will feature…
Pac-Man Championship Edition, which is handled by emulation specialists M2, will be coming to Nintendo Switch as part of the Namcot Collection which is called Namco Museum Archives 1 & 2 in the west. Speaking on Twitter, M2 director Naoki Horii, revealed that the demake was originally intended for Nintendo 3DS and has explained how…
God-tier. I can imagine that when the Super Famicom launched in Japan, titles like Super Mario World, F-Zero and Pilotwings were the ones that caught the vast majority of attention – and with good reason. Mario World was (and, in my opinion, still is) one of the best 2D platformers ever created, while F-Zero and…
New research from Anthropic, one of the world’s leading AI firms, shows that LLMs from various companies have an increased willingness to push ethical boundaries. These models will dodge safeguards intended to curtail such behaviour, deceive users about what they’re doing, steal restricted data that they shouldn’t access and, in one extreme scenario, turn off…
With new visuals and improved mechanics. Forever Entertainment, the company behind remakes of Panzer Dragoon, House of the Dead and Front Mission, has officially announced that it is remaking Data East’s classic 1993 side-scrolling brawler, Night Slashers, validating reports from 2021 that such a project was underway. The game boasts a cast of monster-hunting fighters…
Launching this June down under. The relaxing life simulation Pokémon Pokopia has been a huge hit for Nintendo and The Pokémon Company, and to encourage even more Switch 2 sales, Nintendo has now announced a new bundle. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
“Now I’m even more confused”. Early Tomb Raider titles have recently been remastered for modern systems, and the developers behind the project have used upscaling tools to improve the 32-bit textures seen in the original games. This process has led to some intentional confusion online, as evidenced by a post on the Insert Credit forums,…
Maybe I’m just a big old baby, but nothing sounds more nightmarish to me than dropping into a Fortnite lobby full of teenagers and being forced to engage with them via proximity chat. Epic seemed to think it was a good idea, though, launching its Delulu mode over the weekend. And hell, Epic was right:…
Time is important. Atari’s Asteroids is one of the most iconic arcade titles of all time, and it not only inspired many similar arcade games but also spawned spiritual sequels from within Atari itself. As such, it’s a fitting way to kick off Polymega’s new collection of physical releases. Polymega Collection Vol. 1 – Asteroids…
“It seemed an ideal time”. Tim Langdell, the famous copyright troll who took on the likes of Namco, Future Publishing and EA over the use of the word ‘Edge’ in various products, has reimerged to hawk an updated version of his ZX Spectrum book, which was first published all the way back in 1982. The…