Karnov’s Revenge! Magical Drop! Street Hoop! Spinmaster! While the disappointment of knowing the Neo Geo AES+ won’t arrive until late next year still stings, the system got plenty of coverage at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, along with the welcome announcement that Zero Wing is coming to the platform. We now know four other releases…
You’ve probably already heard, what with all the glowing coverage and the 700,000 concurrent players it racked up last weekend, but Arc Raiders is a hit. And not just a hit: Nexon, the parent company of Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios, says it’s the most successful launch in the company’s history. Confirmation of Arc’s big…
Now it’s less than a month away. Gosh, time really flies, huh? It’s now been one whole year since Nintendo – specifically president Shuntaro Furukawa – publically acknowledged the Switch 2 (thanks, Stealth40k). Yes, back on 7th May 2024, Furukawa took to Nintendo’s official social pages and stated that the company would “make an announcement…
With the launch of Capcom’s Resident Evil Requiem, PC gamers can add another game to their libraries that sports one of the most impressive and most inaccessible of rendering technologies: path tracing (or full ray tracing, as Nvidia prefers to call it). If you want pixel-perfect lighting, shadows, and reflections, only path tracing will do,…
Xbox Games Studios head Craig Duncan has stepped down after just over a year-and-a-half in the role, reports The Game Business. Duncan led Sea of Thieves developer Rare for nearly 13 years before being promoted to head of Xbox Game Studios in 2024, which put the rest of Microsoft’s studios under his stewardship, including Double…
Takeo Iijima was not contacted about the 1989 title’s rerelease. D4 Enterprise, the company behind the EGGCONSOLE series of reissues of classic computer games for the Nintendo Switch, has quietly pulled its rerelease of the Riverhill Soft PC-8801 role-playing game Burai Jouken from sale, following complaints from the original creator Takeo Iijima. The game, which…
The Dream Color Plus will be shown off this month. It’s a pretty exciting time to be a Dreamcast fan. The console is getting some serious attention when it comes to accessories, such as the Octopus Fight Stick, D6 controller and not one but two new ‘next gen’ VMUs. It yurns out we might also…
Gear aimed at quiet computing Be Quiet isn’t one of the bigger brands in the U.S., though if you’ve ever attempted to build a silent or low noise PC, you might have come across the company’s products. Formed 15 years ago, Be Quiet answered the call in Germany for quiet gear, and that’s been a…
Gale is a divisive character in Baldur’s Gate 3. Owing to a series of bugs that made him a bit of a horndog, the Wizard of Waterdeep quickly earned himself a reputation as a bit of a hound and a creep. We collectively dunked on him in much the same way back when we did…
The game is this week’s Arcade Archives release. Namco’s 1988 ice hockey game Face Off is heading to Nintendo Switch and PS4 as part of Hamster’s ongoing series of arcade reissues (thanks Famitsu!). The game will be released digitally on Thursday, February 8th in Japan, with the title expected to hit Western storefronts shortly after….