Pac-Man (1980), Space Invaders (1978), and Donkey Kong (1981) are all iconic titles from the late 1970s and 1980s that marked a turning point in gaming history. Titles such as these alongside others that followed a similar pattern, set standards for player interactions through highly interactive gameplay. These games introduced new game mechanics that impacted…
Having brought an end to the thousand-year conflict between dragon and man in the north, the Warrior of Light and his comrades prepare to liberate Ala Mhigo, a land conquered by the Garlean Empire twenty years ago. Meanwhile, in the Far East, the freedom fighters of the fallen nation of Doma struggle to rekindle the…
I gotta say, it’s been a good time to come back to Overwatch. Five new heroes, plus all of the ones I missed out on in the three or four years I haven’t been playing. The Sanrio collaboration that actually had me contemplating playing Widowmaker for the first time in my life. A renewed drive…
And support for modern controllers. Yesterday GOG announced that Silent Hill 4: The Room has been added to the GOG Preservation Program, bringing with it a bunch of improvements such as the restoration of missing PS2 content and support for modern controllers. The fourth entry in the Silent Hill franchise, Silent Hill 4: The Room…
V6.541 has been in development for two years. Saturn softmod Pseudo Saturn Kai got a massive update at the end of 2023 which brings support for ODEs like the Satiator as well as fixes and other upgrades (thanks, Sega Saturn Shiro). A fork of the open-source ‘Pseudo Saturn’ project by CyberWarriorX, Pseudo Saturn Kai V6.541…
February is the month where some of the most prestigious award shows take place. The Grammy Awards were a few weekends ago and the Academy Awards are this Sunday. We’re getting in on the fun with two sales — the Critics’ Choice Sale, discounting some of the biggest games from 2014 that received awards and…
Can’t wait until October 13 to get your hands on PlayStation VR? PlayStation and our friends at Taco Bell are serving up the opportunity to win a Taco Bell/PlayStation VR Launch Bundle several days before it officially goes on sale. From September 15 through October 19, you can pick up a specially-marked $5 Taco Bell…
Button Mashing as a Foundational Artform of Gaming Reaction speed matters more than planned input. The name fits the action. People mash buttons, plain and simple. This style shows up on home consoles, arcade cabinets, portable systems, and across online games that rely on fast mechanical input. Developers rely on it because it works across…
A third-person, open world survival craft-em-up about underpaid space workers will release this week in Space Trash Scavenger. It’s an interesting looking one, with the conceit that it’s a world where every little planetoid and asteroid has its own little sphere of gravity, including your own self-directed and constructed mobile scavenging platform. The same kind…
Cybersecurity provider Malwarebytes has thrown up a red flag regarding a fake Google Account security page that it says is distributing “what may be one of the most fully featured browser-based surveillance toolkits we have observed in the wild”, and it’s capable of infecting Windows, Apple, and Google Android devices. In a blog post breaking…