Round Up: The Previews Are In For Super Mario RPG Switch

This Book About Rainbird And Beyond Software Has Already Doubled Its Kickstarter Goal

Penned by Richard Hewison. Publisher Fusion Book is currently running a Kickstarter campaign for Memories of Rainbird and Beyond, and it has already doubled its initial £12,000 funding target. Following on from the company’s book on Ocean Software, this new tome focuses on fellow British developers Rainbird Software and Beyond Software (as you’ve probably guessed…

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Google Working on Second, Standalone VR Headset?

Unnamed sources have informed the Wall Street Journalthat Google is working on a standalone VR headset focused in the midrange of the VR hardware spectrum, that doesn’t require a phone, a game console, or a computer. Sources told the paper that Google’s VR headset will consist of outward-facing cameras, high-powered processors, and a screen. The…

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The Pokémon Company criticises Trump administration’s use of its imagery in political memes, says Pokémon is apolitical, Trump spokesman uses decade-old Clinton post to accuse them of bias

The Pokémon Company International has criticised the Trump administration’s use of its characters and imagery in political meme posts. The latest example was a still image from the newly released Pokopia that has been altered to feature the slogan “Make America Great Again”, with series mascot Pikachu poking out from behind the “e” in “Make”….

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Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, ‘but the timeline is uncertain’

Hassles with credit card processors over adult content isn’t the only payment headache Steam is facing these days. Valve is also getting grief from PayPal, which is no longer being accepted as a form of payment in much of the world. Going by posts about the problem in the Steam subreddit, the issue was first…

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Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available for free thanks to its fan community, and they’ve even updated the game for modern PCs: ‘This is the first public patch for Unreal Tournament 2004 in over 20 years’

Epic Games may have since left the BSP-carved valleys of Unreal in favour of the cartoonish hills of Fortnite, but at least it hasn’t locked the series that put the company on the map deep in a digital vault somewhere. In the last few years, it has given permission for the Internet Archive to assume…

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