Many of today’s most dedicated gamers got their start in arcades. The late 70s and early 80s filled big rooms with giant cabinets that challenged players with tough games that, at times, bordered on unfair. The currency of the era was quarters: each coin marked one life, and each retry meant one less quarter in…
Bring on the freebies. It may not be the Christmas Holidays yet, but No Gravity Games is back with a fresh line-up of daily free Switch games. The ‘Pixel Chaos Giveaway‘ gets underway tomorrow (19th May) and will be sticking around until 24th May, with one No Gravity Games-published title going for free every 24…
“The first fully open-source FPGA retro-emulation handheld”. Eli Lipsitz‘s FPGA-based Game Boy clone, Game Bub, has hit crowdfunding and is already well on its way to achieving its target. Powered by the Artix XC7A100T FPGA, the Game Bub runs physical Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance cartridges, and supports original accessories, like…
Category: Announcements March 26, 2025 Xbox March Update: In-Game Benefits for Free-to-Play Games, Xbox Cloud Gaming (Beta) Updates, and More Dean Shimabukuro, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Xbox Services Marketing In our mission to constantly improve the Xbox platform, March is bringing several updates for players to enjoy. This month we’re introducing more ways to access…
Back to Route 1. Ever since Pokémon Legends: Z-A came out last year, a thought has been brewing that I haven’t been able to shake. It was amplified as I watched the EUIC battles in February, and then cropped up again as I sat, mouth agape, at the Winds and Waves trailer. After 30 years,…
One thing that really impressed me with our running RPG of the year, Esoteric Ebb, is how it handles failure and save scumming, the practice of abusing a game’s save/load feature just to get your desired result at every turn—we all do it, at least sometimes, and we all feel guilty about it. Save scumming…
Wistful about Myst VI. Two months after Cyan posted the 3-minute glimpse of its cancelled Myst project, it still stings to think that I won’t see a full performance from Noshir Dalal, the actor who performs the angry, Lex Luthor-style megalomaniac character seen in the trailer. Not nearly enough Andrew Ryans in gaming lately. Let…
In celebration of Dead Rising’s 10th Anniversary, we’re excited to announce that Capcom is bringing Dead Rising, Dead Rising 2, and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record to a new generation of zombie slayers on PS4 with classic zombie sandbox gameplay and upgraded graphics presented in 1080p and targeting 60 frames per second. Since we…
Three familiar faces join the fight. After teasing the three returning big bads over the course of last year, SEGA has today revealed the release date for SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance‘s ‘SEGA Villains Stage’ DLC, and we don’t have long to wait. As announced in the awesome new animated trailer (above), the DLC will arrive…
Co-authored. In many ways, Split Fiction feels like the culmination of everything Hazelight Studios has accomplished in the co-op space. The journey began with Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, a charming fantasy that required solo players to coordinate both thumbs to control two characters simultaneously. The studio then progressed to A Way Out, a…