Pac-Land Is Coming To Analogue Pocket

Pac-Land Is Coming To Analogue Pocket

Munch munch. Namco’s 1984 impactful action platformer Pac-Land is coming to the Analogue Pocket via a new FPGA core. A spin-off from the original Pac-Man, Pac-Land is considered to be one of the most influential titles of the 1980s, as it pioneered many mechanics which would later become commonplace in side-scrolling platformers, such as Alex…

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Resident Evil director Paul W. S. Anderson says he’s got no time for people who do game adaptations without playing them—’That’s outrageous’

Director Paul W. S. Anderson, who helmed the likes of Mortal Kombat (1995), Resident Evil (2002), and Monster Hunter (2021), has just done a new interview on Chris Plante’s (excellent) podcast Post Games. It’s a lengthy and enjoyable listen, and Anderson speaks at some length about the thought process behind that first Resident Evil movie…

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The impossibly-cool-looking Pocket Scion is a ‘biofeedback instrument’ that connects directly to plants, bathing you in the electronic sounds of, err, nature

Sometimes, you want a device simply because of how freaking cool it looks, and today is one of those times. The Pocket Scion seems to have fallen from the pages of a sci-fi novel, except its functionality is arguably even cooler. This cryptically-designed device responds to small changes in bioelectricity generated by natural organisms, like…

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