Three waves starting next week. Super Mario’s 40th anniversary is now underway and Nintendo’s been promoting it with all sorts of announcements and reveals. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Burn-in remains the great worry when it comes to OLED panel technology. Now a new investigation by Ars Technica claims that what you do with your OLED monitor matters more than the type or brand. That makes a lot of sense. What is doesn’t do is help you choose an OLED monitor if you’re actually…
“They’re only as accurate as they’re programmed to be”. Software engineer Eli Lipsitz has just revealed their next project: an open-source FPGA-based handheld which plays Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance cartridges, as well as ROMs loaded via an SD card. The ‘Game Bub’ also supports the Game Boy link cable, has…
It’s easy to forget that, before the release of its first beach volleyball spin-off, the Dead or Alive series were taken fairly seriously as fighting games. We may have joked about the ridiculous jiggle physics, but the original was still considered a decent successor to Virtua Fighter 2. Nowadays, of course, the Dead or Alive…
I was a fool for worrying that Separate Ways, the Resident Evil 4 remake’s remake of the old Ada Wong-focused expansion of the same name, might get too caught up in its own tangled lore-web to remember to have a little fun. That concern was immediately blown away by this side story’s frivolously entertaining opening:…
The Kickstarter for Annalog only launched on Tuesday, but the NES game has already achieved its initial $7000 goal and then some. The Retro Room Games has confirmed that it has hit its first stretch goal of $10,000 with 28 days left to go in the campaign. Backers are now guaranteed to receive their…
Cult of Nintendo. Back in the day, before Nintendo Direct became a thing, Nintendo was often known for its memorable appearances at events such as Space World and E3. Some are well known for their meme potential (“My body is ready!”) while others are famous for their sheer lunacy (hello Wii Music), but there are…
If I didn’t already own most of the games in the latest Humble Bundle, I’d buy it in a heartbeat. I almost want to buy it anyway, just for the thrill of the bargain. There’s probably 600 hours worth of RPG in this Beamdog & Owlcat RPG Masters bundle, and you can get all 9…
‘Strategy X’ heads to PS4 & Switch this week. The Konami 1981 tank-based shooter Strategy X is releasing this week on PS4 and Nintendo Switch, as part of Arcade Archives, Hamster has announced. The game will be released on Thursday, June 19th, and will cost $7.99 across both platforms. Hitting the arcades in the early…
Has it already been a year since Marvel’s Spider-Man webbed up our hearts? I’ve been a lifelong fan of the ol’ wall-crawler, so since Insomniac’s acclaimed adventure first point-launched onto PS4 I’ve been beside myself swinging through the city, putting a stop to crimes both big and small… and stopping every five minutes to bust…