And Wii! An update to the Wii and GameCube PS1 emulator WiiSX / CubeSX has delivered a pretty big surprise – games are now pretty much playable. Development on the emulator has been pretty slow and we have to admit we’d taken our eyes off it in recent years, but the latest version brings with…
Since its 2015 release, teen-horror homage Until Dawn has built a legion of fans, hooked on its branching narrative, memorable characters and ruthlessly efficient scares. Developer Supermassive has dipped its toes back into horror on a couple of occasions since — with spin-offs Until Dawn: Rush of Blood and PS VR prequel The Inpatient —…
The FM Towns ‘eroge’ fighter now has more English text. Three years ago, Derek Pascarella released the first version of his English patch for the FM Towns eroge fighting game Ningyou Tsukai, better known in the West as Metal & Lace: The Battle of the Robo Babes. Pascarella has just announced that he has released…
Learn how to make South Indian food. If you’ve played Venba, which launched on Nintendo Switch in July 2023, and you love cooking, you probably had one big question at the end of the game — how do I make all of that delicious food? Thankfully, the team at Visai Games have a solution that’ll…
New HoriZ-Aons. We’ve (read: this writer) has been banging on about a Pokémon life sim for ages, and today, our wish has finally come true. Pokémon Pokopia was announced during today’s Nintendo Direct; it’s got a pastel aesthetic and blocky structures, a little bit like Minecraft or Dragon Quest Builders, but with a cosy little…
Reviewing games can be kinda weird. When I’m playing stuff for personal reasons, there’s no deadline. No definitive date that I have to roll credits or reach 100% completion by. It’s just me and the journey. However long that takes. But I am also employed by one such website called PC Gamer, and sometimes I…
The Fallout TV series is a hit, and so Prime is taking the obvious next step and firing up a “reality competition series” called, and based on, Fallout Shelter, a popular 2015 mobile game (that later came to PC and consoles) in which players design and manage one of Fallout’s underground Vaults, where the survivors…
Raiders of the Lost Carp. I’ve had my fingers crossed for a single-player Splatoon game ever since… well, since Splatoon 1, now that I think about it. I love a bit of online Turf War battling, really I do, but the very best parts of the series for me have always been those stellar single-player…
While Dungeons & Dragons’ huge OGL stumble didn’t quite convert the game’s captive audience to the hundreds of other (very good) TTRPGs out there, it’s still caused a resurgence of people checking out other games. It also prompted several creators (like the minds behind The MCDM RPG) to start doing their own thing—both to capitalise…
And they’re apparently “perfect” for cruising. In case you somehow missed it, during the Switch generation, Japanese accessory maker Hori actually released two officially licensed racing wheels designed for use with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. At the time, many fans of the series weighed up if they would be worth the investment in the long…