Captchas have been making me want to spoon my eyes out for years, so praise be to Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch who’s just yeeted a Doom captcha into virtual existence (via Hackaday). Since it was made open source, the 1992 shooter has been designated a veritable “can you run it” of potato hardware, finding its…
That key art is unsettling, though. Devolver Digital is launching a new 2D precision platformer on 1st May 2025 for the Nintendo Switch, and you can try it out now via a free eShop demo. Developed by DeadToast Entertainment (My Friend Pedro), Shotgun Cop Man ties all traversal and combat to your guns, with each…
Sonic R! Banjo: Recompiled! Beavis and Butt-Head! Welcome to Retro Recap, a regular feature we run each and every weekend which rounds up all of the best retro gaming news and content of the past week in one place. Read the full article on timeextension.com Sonic R! Banjo: Recompiled! Beavis and Butt-Head! Welcome to Retro…
Whether it’s reworked old classics you’re after or fresh picks inspired by ’90s gems, you don’t have to look far for a good JRPG these days. While Clair Obscur might be stirring up discourse on whether a French game can carry the genre name, let’s not forget the powerfully Québécois Sea Of Stars, which dropped…
“We will introduce an additional difficulty level [to The Blood of Dawnwalker], but an easier one, because many people are asking for a more easy difficulty. The Story mode which we have right now will be a different difficulty—we will call it Demanding or something like this—and we will add a new Story mode which…
The endless parade of incongruous Magic crossovers continued today with news that Marvel, the purveyor of movies, television shows, comics, videogames, and other popular media that you simply cannot get away from, is coming to Magic: The Gathering. Comic book superheroes may not seem like a natural fit for a fantasy-based card game, but it’s…
Hi, it’s Jakub from Grip Games. This week, we launched Unmechanical: Extended for PS4 and PS3. Just like the story of the game, even the development has been a difficult journey full of puzzles and problems. This post-mortem article maps what we think went right and wrong during the development, and what has shaped Unmechanical:…
As if to prove modern PC games are self-obsessed narcissists that can’t imagine you might want to play something else, here comes Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III with a ridiculous requirement for up to 213GB of storage space. Oh, and that’ll need to be 213GB of SSD storage space according to the game’s minimum…
The FCC pushes forward for you, and you win! This week marks a huge win for the FCC, and for you, fellow netizens and Maximum PC fans. The FCC just went and pushed forward a proposal to reclassify internet service as a public utility—just like electricity and water. Last week I wrote a piece on…
DAMNdori. It feels like Nintendo has been taking its sweet time with it, but it’s finally happening: Pikmin 4 – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition is real, and it launches on 12th November. This new edition packs in a fresh ‘Dandori Academy’ game mode to test your item-collecting skills, with three different difficulty modes and a…