Last month, I acknowledged that turn-based tactics can be seen as an intimidating genre. But it can also be seen as a boring one—full of dry, fiddly battles and endless sheets of numbers. Sometimes that’s true. But in its best examples, the turn-based tactics genre is the true home of drama and excitement in gaming….
The CTF shooter Last Flag initially caught our eye because of the co-founders of developer Night Street Games: Mac and Dan Reynolds, better known to the world as, respectively, the manager and lead singer of Imagine Dragons. But it turned out to be a pretty good shooter too: PC Gamer editor Tyler Wilde, who’s no…
Links of the Past. It might not have been the biggest surprise out there (thanks, leaks), but yesterday’s Direct brought with it the news that The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Switch 2 remake is real, and it’s launching at some point this year. The 1-minute 36-second reveal trailer gave us very little to…
The excellent ARMS is receiving some love next month as Nintendo of America has announced that there will be a special North American Online Open. It begins on the 4th April at 10am PST. If you are successful against the competitors and place within the top eight then you’ll be eligible to receive a handy…
The baby boom is over. EA has neutered a bizarre bug recently introduced to The Sims 4 that erroneously marked Sims as being pregnant, irrespective of whether they were male or had previously engaged in ‘woo-hoo’. The bug initially appeared last week, slipping undetected into the game in a base game patch that coincided with…
Given away when Color TV Game Block Kuzushi launched. Before Nintendo took the world by a storm with the Famicom / NES, it produced a range of ‘Color TV Game’ systems in Japan, starting with the Color TV-Game 6 and Color TV-Game 15 in 1977. 1979’s Color TV Game Block Kuzushi cost ¥13,500 and featured…
Sick beat or sick bay? Nintendo has proven that the humble Switch still has life in it with the launch of Rhythm Heaven Groove, the latest entry in the company’s quirky, colourful rhythm series. It might not be the most high-profile of Nintendo releases, but it is nevertheless a pretty cool swansong for the Switch….
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Despite a rough couple of years for the company, Intel could be set to make a turnaround with both its handheld chips performing well, and its Foundry business taking on substantial orders, at least if recent reports prove to be true. It seems like the AI boom has really squeezed semiconductor leader TSMC’s supplies dry,…
With two competitions currently on going, the ‘ TND SEUCK Compo 2025’ and the ‘game programming competition’, it’s always worth checking out both of these, to see if any special games have been entered that’s worthy of our attention. Well that’s certainly happened this week, as LBM has entered their new Plus/4 game of ‘Gravity…