As hardware reviews go, this one has probably been the most challenging one I’ve ever undertaken in my three decades of testing and rating PC hardware. Not because the product is incredibly complex or difficult to use; far from it, in fact. And not because it was a bug-ridden, early-release mess either. Indeed not, as…
“I am happy that so many people have played our game”. While a lot of the focus last year was on the new Zelda and Mario games, there were plenty of other first-party releases. This includes the tactical RPG Fire Emblem Engage, which this week celebrates its first anniversary. Yes, it’s already a year old!…
“Video games are arguably the greatest teaching tool ever invented”. Jack Thompson, an activist with a long history of fighting against sex and violence in video games, has said that interactive entertainment is “arguably the greatest teaching tool ever invented.” Speaking on Simon Parkin’s My Perfect Console podcast, the 72-year-old former attorney – who famously…
Today Retro gaming is an appealing pastime today, and many of these games still hold up against contemporary titles. Not only does playing retro games let many gamers feel a sense of nostalgia as they remember the days when they were first getting into gaming, but it can also lead them to discover new games…
Masters of Albion is coming in April, and after that designer Peter Molyneux says he’s done: It will be his last game ever. Whether that holds up over the long term remains to be seen, but his promised retirement from the industry has also triggered the end of one of the best and longest-running videogame…
What a strange history Phoenix Point has. At the height of X-COM mania, when Firaxis was riding high on its subversive sequel to its 2012 reboot, the series’ original creator Julian Gollop revealed his own spiritual successor to his massively influential game. Phoenix Point aimed to reimplement much of the granularity that Firaxis’ slicker overhauls…
Nintendo UK have published an apology on their website with regards to the upcoming Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros system. The issue involves one of the little touches to the digital clock which is the ‘Mario Drawing’ song. The song displays incorrect language lyrics if a user selects either German, French, Italian or Spanish…
Arcade attract mode was never just background theater. It was a machine’s fastest way of advertising its theme, pace, and identity before a player touched a button. The best cabinets used it to do two jobs at once: announce what kind of experience they offered and make that experience feel alive from across the room….
Everything we’ve scored 9/10 or higher. What’s that? Another Switch eShop sale, you say? Oh why not, let’s have it. Yes, Nintendo’s back with another sale, and this time it’s knocking off up to 70% from a whole bunch of eShop games (though we’ve spotted quite a few higher discounts) . Dubbed the ‘Play On…
The creators of Blue & Blood—an ambitious total conversion mod reimagining GTA: San Andreas from the perspective of the LSPD’s notorious CRASH unit—have confirmed they’re developing a brand-new indie game inspired by a strange but intriguing mix of multi-genre-spanning titles. While chatting about the nuts and bolts of their in-development Grand Theft Auto project, modders-turned…