“There will be 12 bookmarks in my game for you to print”. Ah, the Game Boy Printer – how we miss thee. One of the many leftfield accessories Nintendo has released during its history, this portable thermal printer allowed users to print off snaps they’d taken with the equally awesome Game Boy Camera – something…
Greetings from Housemarque! It was ten years ago that a game called Super Stardust HD saw the light of day on PlayStation 3. As a Finnish developer with roots in arcade gaming, we at Housemarque got to create a game that combined lighting fast reflexes with a myriad of colorful explosions. SSHD combined a thematic…
XSEED Games has announced in a recent blog post that the upcoming western release of the long-awaited Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town will allow same-sex marriages, which is a first for the game. The Japanese version has the “Best Friends” system but this didn’t allow for marriages. The remake will include a romantic…
Earlier today, Tassei Denki set up a Pre-Launch Kickstarter page for its upcoming Time Crisis plug and play lightgun device. Tassei Denki also appears to have acquired the rights to include Steel Gunner, Steel Gunner 2, and Point Blank in this device. A Vimeo video, which can be seen here, shows the prototype in…
“Miyamoto wanted us to try out new ideas and see what happened”. Star Fox Command is 14 years old this year, a remarkable fact when you consider that, in the time that has elapsed since its release, we’ve only seen one all-new Star Fox entry – and even that was technically a remake of the…
“We’re rich!” Or at least we were until Bungie pulled the rug. (Image credit: Bungie) There must be an almost erotic thrill to eliminating an entire currency at the click of a button. That’s what is going to happen in Destiny 2 at the end of November when Season 23 launches. Bungie today announced that…
Poker games from the 1990s had something that modern titles often lack. They focused on the cards, the betting, and the basic psychology of bluffing. No elaborate animations interrupted the flow of play, and you didn’t need to download gigabytes of data to start playing. These games worked because they understood what made poker enjoyable…
More than 50 games are backwards compatible. Square Enix released a lot of amazing games during the Switch generation and if you’re wondering how many work on the Switch 2, it’s now shared a list highlighting all of the Switch games that are compatible with Nintendo’s new hybrid system. So, here’s this extensive library of…
With a rather understated press release, Ayaneo announced a new model PC in its Next series of handheld PCs, the Next Lite. Why understated? Because Ayaneo decided to not make too much of a fuss about its standout feature: It’s the first non-Valve handheld product to use SteamOS as the operating system. The announcement itself…
Gamescom 2020, which kicks off on Thursday, 27th August, will be around two hours long and will feature a whopping twenty video games. Geoff Keighley, who is in charge of the opening night production on Thursday, has tweeted that a few of the games will be teased from today onwards. There are a number of…