A Year After Being Mysteriously Delisted, EGGCONSOLE's Puyo Puyo PC-9801 Reissue Returns To Nintendo Switch

A Year After Being Mysteriously Delisted, EGGCONSOLE’s Puyo Puyo PC-9801 Reissue Returns To Nintendo Switch

Out today! D4Enterprise’s EGGCONSOLE reissue of the PC-9801 version of Puyo Puyo is back on the Nintendo Switch eShop in Japan, a year after being removed from sale. The Japanese publisher originally reissued the Compile-developed puzzler last year, on August 28th, 2025, but quickly pulled it from sale for undisclosed reasons at the same time…

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The latest Steam Next Fest features a pile of Palworld-likes as witches and airships battle over the creature-collecting survival subgenre

When Palworld sold 12 million Steam copies in under two weeks, two things felt like they’d become inevitable: First, that Nintendo’s lawyers would take any opening they could find to punish Pocketpair for daring to release what many had been calling Pokemon: Gun Version well before its launch, and second, that we’d eventually see Palworld…

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Tarn Adams, co-creator of Dwarf Fortress, has over 1,400 hours in Factorio and is currently obsessed with terraforming games: ‘Dwarf Fortress just doesn’t accommodate a full-on sci-fi thing’

Disk Cleanup Welcome to Disk Cleanup, our regular weekend column delving into the PCs of PC gaming luminaries. Come back every weekend to read a new interview, digging into the important questions, like “How tidy is your desktop?” and “What game will you never uninstall?” Tarn Adams cannot recall exactly when he first got into…

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Why is logging into anything such a pain in the ass?

Logging into apps or websites is one of our most-repeated digital activities, a sacred handshake between internet and user that says “I’m me, please let me in.” To my disappointment, at some point in the last few years we reached a point where logging in wasn’t a matter of extending your hand and completing a…

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Space Invaders creator recalls building arcade games with mirrors, making a prototype console that never saw release, and how short-sighted Taito’s sales team was about videogames: ‘These things will never sell’

Time Extension has a new interview with Tomohiro Nishikado, the designer known for his long career at Taito and in particular the creation of Space Invaders. The 1978 arcade game has a good case for being the single most famous videogame ever, and upon release became a craze and phenomenon (a popular urban legend claimed…

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It looks like more memory price hikes may soon be on the way, as Samsung and SK Hynix reportedly inform customers of yet another DRAM price increase

If you were looking for good news surrounding the ongoing memory crisis, you’ve clicked on the wrong article. According to South Korean news outlet SEDaily, its sources have informed it that both Samsung and SK Hynix have notified their customers of another second-quarter DRAM price increase, and are currently entering into price negotiations. Smaller customers…

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