“A platform dedicated to the arcade community”. In 2025, there will be plenty of options available to people who want legal access to retro games, including Evercade, Antstream, Nintendo Switch Online, and PS Plus. However, the team behind Recade is hoping there will be room for one more and is building “a platform dedicated to…
As you’d probably expect from a game as sweet as Hello Kitty Island Adventure, baking is the key to boosting your friendship with fellow islanders. Almond Pound Cake is one of the many recipes you’ll learn to make alongside Hello Kitty during your time on Friendship Island, and it’s by no means a challenging one…
While it’s not quite as good as Ubisoft’s roast of the world’s most pathetic man, Assassin’s Creed Shadows is still a fun time. Clearing out castles as a neck-slitting shinobi is bloody brilliant now that this series, just 300 games in, has finally figured out how to let you smoothly climb down a building. What…
A joke worth playing along with. April Fools’ Day is the one day of the year when you have to take every news story with a pinch of salt, and the announcement that Argonaut Games had found an early C64 demo of Croc certainly set our alarm bells ringing. While this is a pretty obvious…
Unity’s been having a rough few years—mostly due to its own foolishness, mind. Its prior CEO, John Riccitiello, couldn’t seem to stop walking from bad decision to bad decision like a door-to-door fridge salesman in the arctic. In 2022, he called developers “f*cking idiots”. Then, he apologised for calling them “f*cking idiots”. Then, he sprang…
If you want to know how to make a Spiral Strawberry Smoothie in Disney Dreamlight Valley, then you’ll be happy to know it’s not a difficult recipe to master at all. You’ll need two ingredients that are easy to come by, but the only catch is they are exclusive to The Storybook Vale DLC. The…
Revolutionise your free time. Gaming is wonderful, isn’t it? It’s an escape, it’s a relaxation method, it’s a chance to bravely step out in someone else’s shoes. It’s also a massive waste of time. This hobby has kept us all thoroughly entertained for the past 50 years, but the world is changing; life isn’t what…
“Watch this space…”. 35 years ago this October, British publisher EMAP launched Mean Machines magazine, a console-focused spin-off of CVG, its leading multiformat monthly. Spawned from the CVG ‘Mean Machines’ section created by Tony Takoushi in 1987, the magazine would become one of the most commercially successful of its era. It lasted 24 issues before…
“Millions of artists are being violated before everyone’s eyes”. If you’re on pretty much any social media platform right now, you’ll no doubt have noticed a massive uptick in the volume of Studio Ghibli-style artwork appearing in your timeline. This is all thanks to OpenAI’s recent update to ChatGPT, which introduces a bunch of tools…
Jackin’ in. With just one day to go until the big Switch 2 Direct, you’d think we’d have enough rumours by now, but oh no. Thanks to eagle-eyed Famiboards user ‘LiC’ (thanks, Go Nintendo), a new FCC filing has been spotted which hints at the new Pro Controller for the Switch 2. Designated ‘BEE-008’, the…