“Thank you for all your work. It won’t be forgotten”. Highly respected fan translator Eien ni Hen has passed away, we’re sad to report. The news was broken by fellow fan translator Garrett Greenwalt. The translator created patches for games such as Romancing SaGa, Fire Emblem, Sakura Wars, Tear Ring Saga, Dragon Force II and…
No automatic upgrades here. The Witcher III: Wild Hunt – Remastered is right around the corner, launching on Switch 2 on 29th September 2026 (yes, that’s tomorrow at the time of writing). Many of you already own the original Switch release, so the good news is that this new version is completely free for you….
A few weeks ago, the rechargeable power core came back in stock for the Chromatic. On the face of it, that the Chromatic even has a separate, rechargeable power core is a bit odd in the modern gaming marketplace. How long has it been standard for gaming devices to just have built in batteries? 23…
Clones have been a fixture in the games industry forever. For every Mario Bros there’s a Giana Sisters, for every Stardew Valley there’s a Fields of Mistria, and for every Needle In A Haystack Simulator there’s a A Needle In a Haystack, or Needle in a Haystack, or Needle In A Haystack, or Needle In…
The facts: Hideo Kojima’s return to stealth-action, Physint, is no longer a PlayStation joint, and Microsoft picked up the ball. It still has big Hollywood talent, with Bill Skarsgård in the lead role. That’s literally it. What people are saying: Alright, so what does that mean? Both Corden and Schreier’s sources suggest Kojima Productions is…
Over on Tiktok, Mark Darrah was asked, “If you could go back in time what would you remove from each of the Dragon Age games and what would you add?” Like everyone who ever installed the Skip the Fade mod for Dragon Age: Origins, Darrah thinks the Lost in Dreams quest needs a snip. “I…
September 26 marked the 40-year anniversary of Konami’s Castlevania on NES and to celebrate, the publisher has made the game available for free on IOS and Android devices. As well Konami has slashed prices on several Castlevania games on the PlayStation and Steam stores. Those sales run through October 1 and October 7. The next…
I’ve always been content to admire the Dark Souls games from afar, rather than get particularly into them myself, and part of that is probably a crumb of leftover resentment from trying to wrangle the multiplayer features in those early games. Love it or hate it, it’s esoteric at the best of times and not…
“I’m getting pretty fed up with all these “ports” made with AI”. We’ve seen a flood of AI-assisted retro gaming projects lately, from translations to decompilation and recompilation efforts. Opinion is sharply divided on the merit of such projects; AI tools help speed things up for sure, but they often come with unwelcome side effects…
Gears of War: E-Day is almost here, but that doesn’t mean its developers have been spared in Microsoft’s latest wave of layoffs as part of the Xbox “reset.” While The Coalition, the studio currently working on the Gears of War series, was not mentioned by name in Matt Booty’s “Continuing Our Reset” blog post, story…