Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier has revealed that Vicarious Visions, the team behind the remasters of Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon, are now working on a remake of the hit PC title Diablo II. The news comes as it was announced yesterday that Activision Blizzard were moving the team to the Blizzard side. The remake…
It’s amazing what a little bit of time can make: Two years after kicking off what looked to be a long-shot campaign to push back on the practice of shutting down server-dependent videogames once they’re no longer profitable, Stop Killing Games founder Ross Scott and organizer Moritz Katzner appeared in front of the European Parliament…
Games have been announced, awards have been handed out, speeches have been made, musical performances have been done, and so much more. But, all things must come to an end. As of this article’s writing, The Game Awards 2020 have now come to a close, and we now know everyone who took home awards. There…
A new real-time card game is getting popular within its quite indie niche: WitchHand, a cutesy-styled game about “leading your coven into new, unfriendly lands” launched just this past week, on February 7, 2024. Using cards, you build up buildings, gather apprentices and familiars, and assign them resources to do their jobs so that you…
Balatro is beginning to seem like less of a game and more like an all-encompassing cosmic force that stretches along inscrutable dimensions until everything is folded within it and reshaped into clowns, cards, and hypnotic chillwave. Today, we have yet more evidence thanks to new crossover content for Rusty’s Retirement, the delightful robotic farming idler…
Sometimes you have to bust out the ol’ cork board and red string for a conspiracy theory involving leaked emails, supervillain islands, and heads of state desperate to deny they had anything to do with All That. But other times the conspiracy rabbit hole beckons in other forms. Like, say: 📌An emulated Macintosh Classic 2…
It’s a GEM. If you’re a seasoned retro gamer who has already spent some time modding and upgrading your existing consoles for the HD age, then you’ll no doubt have heard the name Pixel FX before. The company has produced internal HDMI mods for systems such as PS1, PS2 and Dreamcast, and now its Retro…
CES is becoming more of an automotive show than anything else. Every year there’s more car companies and more car demos. This year was no exception. The PC industry really needs to have its own show. Thankfully, there are still plenty of nuggets to be found and ASUS showed off some goodies this year. ROG…
Harder, better, faster, stronger. When it comes to remaking and re-releasing a game, it’s easy to assume every publisher out there is plundering its back catalogue to refurbish and resell treasured games to a nostalgia-laced audience happy to pay for the comfort of childhood classics brought up to date on their current consoles. However, looking…
Nintendo decided to release a brand new firmware update for the 3DS earlier tonight. When you update, your 3DS should be updated to version 11.13.0-45. The official patch notes, unsurprisingly, don’t say much. What may surprise you, however, is that the update isn’t for stability improvements. Nintendo says that they “resolved an issue where StreetPass…