“Nearly all are playable with only minor issues”. The Sega Saturn core for MiSTer FPGA has come on leaps and bounds in recent months, and according to @MisterAddons, it’s now compatible with 95.5% of the console’s North American software library. While some of those games still exhibit visual or audio issues, they boot fine and…
Don’t get too excited, it’s been removed. Pikmin 4 received a free update in November adding new content, but it wasn’t a Switch 2 upgrade and didn’t include any enhancements for the game on the new hybrid platform. With this in mind, the same Switch title has now reportedly popped up in a section on…
The recent history of real-time strategy has been more dark age than golden era, but there have been a few bright spots over the last decade. One of those is Northgard, a Viking-themed RTS that was released in 2018. Built on traditional strategy foundations, Northgard added novel ideas like game-altering weather systems and a region-based…
Famitsu has polled its vast readership to find out what their most wanted Nintendo Switch games are. This week sees no change at the top for the upcoming Animal Crossing: New Horizons which is easily in the lead. It’s followed up by Bayonetta 3 and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2, both…
While repkits are your main source of healing in Borderlands 4, legendary repkits like the Triple Bypass turn them into offensive tools. Sometimes, though, you do just want some healing, and the Kill Spring does just that in spades. This legendary repkit keeps you at full health thanks to seeking healing orbs. That might sound…
Against all odds our planet has made yet another shaky yet successful trip around the sun and it’s The Year Of Our Gaming 2025. Each year is a chance for a new beginning, even in gaming, so let’s quickly clean the stink of 2024 off us and start fresh. Scrub away the memory of the…
When I started playing Minecraft many years ago, the options for minigames were pretty slim. Aside from recreating the Hunger Games in a beloved experience known as survival games, the only thing we really had was spleef. If you don’t know what this is, it’s basically when you and a bunch of other players are…
My ears perk up anytime a game developer says the word “hitstop.” It means I’m about to hear some secret sauce, or at least opinions, about how to make a game feel great—specifically how and when to add a short pause mid-combat to make a hit really pop. In early footage of Avowed it’s been…
The web is plagued by bots. That’s nothing new of course, but now we’re in the midst of our much-loved AI revolution (you do love it, right?) many websites are continually crawled by bots aiming to scrape them of their precious data to train AI content. Cloudflare thinks it might have the solution, however, as…
There was once a world in which Rockstar published more than two games a decade. Difficult to believe, I know, but having lived through that halcyon period, I would testify to its existence in court. A game like Manhunt 2 was sandwiched between Vice City Stories and Bully the year before, plus GTA 4 and…