One of the world’s most popular fighting games is punching its way back onto PlayStation — Bandai Namco’s Tekken 7 entered the E3 2016 ring to prove its worth. We had a chat with Game Director and Chief Producer Katsuhiro Harada who offered some hard-hitting reasons why it’s a game you should be keeping an…
Kan Naito is bringing ‘Lady Stalker 2D’ to Nintendo’s 8-bit console. It has been announced that Kan Naito is developing a new NES / Famicom RPG called Lady Stalker 2D, and that it will feature character designs created by the late Yoshitaka Tamaki, who sadly passed away in 2023. Both Naito and Tamaki worked at…
Solve your daily Wordle game in a flash with today’s answer, all typed up and ready to help you win. Or you could take it nice and slow if that all sounds like a bit much, keeping our May 23 (1434) hint to one side, ready the instant you need a push. Either way, you’ve…
Spanish students voice concern. Video game historian and Time Extension contributor John Szczepaniak was recently invited to the TecnoCampus University in Mataró, Spain to give a guest lecture to the students studying there. You’ll be able to read his full report this weekend, but one particular part of the trip stuck out like a sore…
It took a whole lot longer than anyone expected (or reasonably thought possible), but the first Payday 3 patch is finally here. Developer Starbreeze says the update makes “a massive amount of fixes to make your heisting a smoother experience,” and that the instability issues players have been dealing with since the game launched in…
No longer any need to buy the SBom Joycard controller! Back in 1997, Hudson released Saturn Bomberman Fight!! in Japan, a year after it had released its SBom Joycard controller. In a pioneering piece of commercial trickery that wouldn’t feel out of place in 2024’s DLC-ridden landscape, Hudson sneakily locked away three exclusive Battle Mode…
It must be a “great game”. Sonic’s profile has continued to skyrocket in recent years thanks to a trilogy of successful live-action movies and multiple games that have been mostly well-received by fans and critics alike. As for what’s next for the blue blur, it’s not clear exactly what to expect just yet in terms…
Stalker 2 gets its first DLC—Cost of Hope—at an indeterminate point later this year, but before the DLC comes the pre-DLC: a free update that bolts on a new scary lab for you to explore, in anticipation of the presumably many scary labs you will encounter in Cost of Hope. The update is called Sealed…
Do you remember Far Cry Primal? Ubisoft’s prehistoric spinoff was pitched as an intriguing departure from the formula, in which players would leave their jeeps and helicopters behind to embrace life at the dawn of the Mesolithic period. They would tread lightly between the Carpathian mountains, taking down saber-toothed cats as a club-wielding tribesman with…
One completely unexpected side-effect of the pandemic: I got really sick of sea shanties. When everyone was stuck at home clinging to Tiktok for their sanity, it seemed like at least one out of five people recorded some sort of shanty-related content, and it didn’t take long before the idea of hearing yet another spirited…