Pre-orders are open now. Atari has announced it will be publishing a new 7800+ compatible port of the Miner 2049er sequel Bounty Bob Strikes Back! Miner 2049er was an incredibly influential early platforming game created by the programmer Bill Hogue and Big Five Software that saw players take control of the mountie Bounty Bob as…
After a career spanning more than 32 years and just about every game Blizzard ever made, senior art director Samwise Didier is calling it quits. Didier announced on Twitter that he is retiring, and that today is his last day at his “beloved Blizzard Entertainment.” “Blizzard was never just a job for me,” Didier wrote….
Why did you open this article? I told you not to. I begged you not to. Close it now. Go away. Forget you ever saw it. Trust me, you might think you want to watch this pale white “anatomically accurate” robot with no face dangling from wires while it silently thrashes its sinewy limbs around,…
Virtua Cop! Time Crisis! Operation Wolf! Lethal Enforcers! Polymega has been updated to version 1.1.35, which brings with it a host of fixes and support for the much-delayed GC01 Retro Gun Controller. The light gun – which is based on the Sinden gun – was originally announced all the way back in 2019. In 2024,…
For my sins, I do occasionally scroll through TikTok. In between the usual suspects of ear worm music loops and memetic dances I generally lack the co-ordination to recreate but not the determination, there is a spattering of AI-generated content. On my ‘For You’ page, this usually takes the form of image filter videos that…
About This Episode Forty-five years ago, a southern action-adventure comedy set in rural Georgia hit the small screen. For seven seasons in the early ’80s, we followed the adventures of Bo & Luke Duke and their ’69 Dodge Charger. In this Backtrack, we look back on the wildly successful CBS television series, The Dukes of…
Arc Raiders has gotten plenty of praise for being a touch more chill than other extraction shooters, and that’s by design—right on down to the game’s matchmaking system, which takes notice of how aggressive you are and tries to match you with like-minded players. This was confirmed in an interview stream Games Beat conducted with…
Larian has some big aspirations for its next RPG, Divinity, which it hopes will surpass even the mighty Baldur’s Gate 3. It will be “even larger” than BG3, with “deeper sequences of consequence,” more interesting fail states, better character customization, and even more natural and complex NPC relationships. Given how good Baldur’s Gate 3 was…
As I type these very words, Nvidia’s market capitalisation is ticking along at $5.12 trillion. Yup, Nvidia has become the world’s first $5 trillion company. Truly, these numbers are getting silly. Of course, it really, really (really!) wasn’t all that long ago we reported on Nvidia becoming the world’s most valuable company at $3.3 trillion….
The Play Ninjala Twitter account is celebrating this morning as the game has achieved over one million downloads since it launched on the Nintendo Switch eShop yesterday. The team acknowledges that Ninjala had servers errors initially and to compensate for this they are giving away 100 Jala and 10x Ippon Gum (Flame) weapon skins. You…