Former Tectoy CEO Stefano Arnhold on the Master System, Mega Net, and more. When it comes to recounting the history of video games, it’s pretty easy to fall into the trap of funnelling everything through the American experience, from the rise and fall of Atari, to the emergence and overwhelming dominance of the NES, and…
Less than two years ago, Surgent Studios was on the brink. Its debut project, the afrofuturist metroidvania Tales of Kenzera: Zau, reviewed well but underperformed commercially. In July 2024, Surgent laid off around a dozen employees. Three months later, it put its entire team on notice for redundancy. It’s a trajectory that’s all too familiar…
Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army released exclusively for PlayStation 2 in 2006 and, ever since then, has been left for dead there. It’s an oddity in the Megami Tensei universe, and wasn’t particularly well-received upon release. But given the way tastes have shifted, and given the nowadays mainstream success of the Persona…
Punch drunk. Nintendo’s coin-op boxing title Punch-Out!! is now 40 years old – it was released in arcades on February 17th, 1984. One of the last arcade titles to be released by the company before it focused its energy on home consoles, the game made quite an impact at the time of release thanks to…
Neverness to Everness isn’t the type of gacha where you need to keep up with the meta to clear its mid and endgame challenges, but playing with the best characters and teams still makes combat a heck of a lot easier. With so many characters with unique roles, Esper types, and annoying new gacha terminology…
You won’t get one. A new report from Eurogamer indicates that Switch 2 pre-orders at GAME retail stores in the UK simply won’t be a thing, with the firm instead possessing a “small allocation” of consoles available via its official website. It’s yet another indication of how GAME is downsizing its operations after numerous controversial…
This year’s Computex tech show in Taipei was filled with new and lavishly designed PC cases. Some big, some small, some in the shape of cats with swords from popular videogames. Yet one stood out to me more than most, and that’s the Havn BF 360. Available in black and white, Havn has stuck with…
News has recently emerged from The Pokemon Company that the Pokemon Global Link service will be closing on the 25th of February next year. The Pokemon Global Link service has been operating for over nine years and servicing such games as Pokemon Sun & Moon. This move means that players of those games and others…
Swallow your coffee before reading further Comcast has gone and doubled the speed of Google Fiber and AT&T GigaPower, both of which top out at 1Gbps. However, hopping on Comcast’s 2Gbps connection comes at a hefty cost — try $299.95 per month, though that’s only the beginning. You’re also on the hook for a $500…
It’s almost time to ring in another New Year, so let’s take a peek at what Plus members can play to kick off 2015. PlayStation 4 owners can leave their pink neon mark on the city of Seattle in inFAMOUS: First Light, a standalone expansion to inFamous: Second Son that outlines the backstory of the…