Say hello to the ‘MegaWang 2000 Turbo Edition’. If you’re old enough to have been gaming during the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 era, then you’ll be familiar with Imagine Software. This Liverpool-based company was one of the leading lights of the UK industry in the 1980s, producing a series of commercially successful titles at…
You’ve got your decorations and your novelty candy bowl with that little hand that jumps out and corrodes any trust the neighborhood’s children had in you, so there’s just one thing missing: an excuse to round out your backlog with a bunch of PC games on sale. Fret not, because Steam Scream Fest is here…
Starfield’s space travel isn’t exactly satisfying: no matter how much the music swells and the engines roar, travel itself is just a series of short cinematic sequences and loading screens. No one was expecting Starfield to be a sim like Elite Dangerous or a seamless experience like No Man’s Sky, but I think a lot…
It’s an even bigger show than usual! We sit down and talk with J from Bandai Namco Entertainment about Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin on PS4. We also hear about video game worlds our listeners would want to visit, killer sweet potato soup recipes, and — of course — more Bloodborne. Enjoy…
Babaliba wasn’t the only classic game to be converted over to the Atari ST, as I’ve recently been told that the 1993 DOS game called Train, which is also very similar to another classic game called SNAKE. Has been converted over to the Atari ST by Slovak programmer Baky, with music by scener Tao. To coincide with…
Ichiro Lambe is a games industry veteran with one hell of a CV: he co-founded Worlds Apart (which became Sony Online Denver), founded Dejobaan Games (probably best-known for the excellently named skydiving game AaaaaAAaaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!), and consulted at Valve for a spell, during which he was one of the key movers behind the creation of Steam…
Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida reckons that increasing confidence among Korean game developers is at least partly in thanks to Stellar Blade. Shift Up’s soulslite did pretty well for itself when it hit consoles last year, with a further boost when the game made its way over to PC in early 2025. I had a…
Just a couple weeks out from its early access release on October 7, League of Legends fighting game 2XKO’s director is giving players a fair warning that the spin-off might not be perfect—not because it’s rife with issues, but because Riot wants to try out new ideas with its first foray into the genre. So,…
If you’re looking for a new way to burn some calories and you didn’t get your hands on the elusive Ring Fit Adventure, thanks to a few developers at Nintendo, fun and simple fitness game Jump Rope Challenge is now available on the eShop for free. It doesn’t require any extra kit, so you all…
Still not got your copy? This might be the closest you ever get to playing it. Ah, what can I say about Paprium that hasn’t already been said a million times already? Originally available for pre-order in 2017, WaterMelon’s belt-scrolling Genesis beat ’em up has experienced one of the most bizarre development cycles ever witnessed;…