“1D Pac-Man”. Pac-Man is one of the most influential video games of all time. Not only has it generated millions of dollars in revenue since its launch, but it has spawned sequels, songs, cartoon shows, merchandise and – of course – hordes of imitators. It’s fair to say that, without Pac-Man, the video game landscape…
Humble’s come out of the gate swinging with its first Choice Bundle—available through the charity-focused initiative’s $12 subscription service—of the year. Marvel’s Midnight Suns, alongside a collection of seven other games, are available to keep for subscribers at no additional cost. I’m not much of a Marvel guy these days, but Midnight Suns definitely caught…
Demo available now. While many gamers will have fond memories of Capcom’s X-Men: Children of the Atom and X-Men Vs Street Fighter arcade titles, Konami’s 1992 coin-op has plenty of fans. A side-scrolling brawler released at a point when Konami’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game was still fresh in people’s memories, X-Men was sadly…
Fractal161 and P1xelAndy did it within a day of each other. Just before Christmas, 13-year-old Willis Gibson – also known as Blue Scuti – became the first person to “beat” the 1989 NES version of Tetris, one of the most popular variants of the game on the competitive circuit. Gibson – who dedicated the achievement…
“The deepest crunch development I’ve ever done”. ‘Creative’ software has a long and proud history in the world of computers and gaming. From the popular Protracker software on the Amiga to the silly fun of Mario Paint on SNES, there have always been options for players to put the controller down and express themselves digitally….
Featuring a new card battle system & online play. Devolver Digital and UK studio Nerial have today locked in a release date for Reigns: Three Kingdoms on the Nintendo Switch and PC, announcing it will be arriving next week on 11th January 2024. This fifth entry in the Reigns strategy series was originally “available exclusively…
“It was basically an escalation of the ‘cover-mounted gift wars’ of the period”. Picture the scene. It’s the early 1990s, the internet hasn’t taken over the world yet, and you’ve just wandered into your local newsagents to purchase a video game magazine. Assembled on the shelf in front of you is a plethora of competing…
The enormity of Baldur’s Gate 3’s briefly stirred up anxieties over raised expectations for future games: Are we going to feel let down by every subsequent RPG that can’t match BG3’s scope and complexity? Even if we did start insisting that every RPG must include several dozen hours of voiced dialogue, I doubt we’d go…
The man, the myth, the legend. Since his outstanding work on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, director and producer Eiji Aonuma has cemented himself as the driving force behind one of Nintendo’s most celebrated, enduring, and lucrative franchises. For many Zelda fans, he holds just about as much prestige in the ranks of…
The Secret of Monkey Island developed by Lucasfilm Games (later LucasArts) was originally released in 1990 and created by now industry legends Ron Gilbert, Tim Schafer, and Dave Grossman. It was a game that has lived on the hearts of many with its fantastic pirate charm. Well if you remember that fine game, you’ll be…