This New NES Game Developed By Ex-iNiS & Elite Beat Agents Devs Looks Absolutely Bananas

‘I’m not going to release anything I’m not happy with’: Eric Barone says Haunted Chocolatier will be out when it’s good and ready, ‘even if that takes years and years’

I do not envy Eric Barone. Stardew Valley remains massively popular even a decade down the line, and is easily one of the biggest catalysts in the cosy gaming craze and the renaissance of the farming simulator. That kind of reputation is bound to put some heavy expectations on his next project, Haunted Chocolatier, from…

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‘A good idea, infinite drive, and lots of Diet Pepsi’: How YouTube essayist Majuular’s life changed course telling the story of Ultima across 2 years and more than 20 hours of documentaries

The monsters in Akalabeth: World of Doom—the precursor to the Ultima series, sometimes called “Ultima 0” by fans and series creator Richard Garriott himself—look ridiculous. The thief is just a floating cloak, the mimic is a featureless cube, and the final monster (straight-up called a Balrog) looks a bit like Firebrand if he was crushed…

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This upcoming Micro-OLED VR headset has absolutely everything and weighs less than 200 grams but of course it costs nearly 4x the Quest 3

It seems like only yesterday that the Valve Index launched—all 800+ grams of it. And what a different world we live in today, because we can now look to a not-too-distant release of a more technologically impressive VR headset that weighs less than 200 g. That’s according to Pimax, whose upcoming Dream Air VR headset…

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