The long-awaited Stardew Valley 1.5 update is now available for PC players and the game’s creator, Concerned Ape, has announced that it will be coming to the Nintendo Switch early next year. In an informative blog post on the game’s official website, Concerned Ape says that the 1.5 update is the biggest update yet for…
Windows 10 or bust At long last, Microsoft announced that it’s begun shipping its Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows to retailers, so you should be able to purchase one soon. Doing so will allow you to use your Xbox One controller with your PC, with a caveat — you must have Windows 10. Microsoft hints…
Get ready to rumble. The time has come again for the students of U.A. High School to push their Quirks to the limit and show off what they’re made of – now including heroes in training Eijiro Kirishima, Momo Yaoyorozu, and Ibara Shiozaki. Go Plus Ultra! with these characters and more in My Hero Ultra…
When I first fired up the demo for Moves of the Diamond Hand, I rolled a character specializing in “Observation” and “Wit,” two skills I figured had to be good for the sort of talky, investigative RPG I’d clocked this as. “Cooking” had to be something like Deus Ex’s swimming skill—surely speccing into that would…
The NHL Series from EA is the only hockey game on current consoles, but once upon a time, there were a ton of options for gamers. Old School Gamer’s Patrick Hickey Jr. breaks down 10 hockey games that influenced the future or made a statement. NHL All-Star Hockey: This game was featured in Kevin Smith’s…
When game engine company Unity announced a change to its pricing plan last week, the response from developers was overwhelmingly negative. The change would mean developers would be charged an increasing fee as they crossed set thresholds every time their games were installed. It was called, among plenty of other things, “an astonishing scumbag move”….
“Make the designs cool”. Masahiro Sakurai has released a new YouTube video looking into the concept of customisation in video games. It’s not the most groundbreaking stuff imaginable and it will likely only truly resonate with budding game developers. Still, since Sakurai has announced that he will be winding down his YouTube channel this year,…
With a new “Japanese-language-only” retro collection. The Japanese video game developer and publisher Nihon Game announced plans last week to bring four titles from the Hiryū no Ken series to PC via a brand-new collection (h/t: Gematsu). The Hiryū no Ken series began in the arcades with the release of Nihon Game’s 1985 Hokuha Syourin…
The Keshi toys were released by Bandai in 1992. If you’ve been reading Time Extension for a while, you may have heard us talk about the retro enthusiast and archivist MrTalida in the past. They’ve been behind some amazing preservationist-based projects over the years, with one of our favourite projects of theirs being the ongoing…
One of the reveals I was most jazzed for at The Game Awards 2025 was Ontos, the new thing from Frictional Games. I’m a fan of the studio’s work in general, and I loved the way SOMA took the aging Amnesia formula and somehow made it better (and so much worse) by dialing back the…