A saga of unpaid wages, cancelled deals and a past business problems. Earlier this year, the world of physical retro gaming welcomed 33 Games, a UK-based firm with big ideas for ensuring classic games got the legacy treatment they deserved. Kicking things off with Gremlin’s Zool on the Sega Mega Drive, 33 Games also revealed…
“His levels in Duke Nukem 3D and SiN will live on forever”. Richard “Levelord” Gray, a legendary level designer on Duke Nukem 3D and the co-founder of Ritual Entertainment, has passed away, aged 68. The news was shared yesterday online by Apogee Entertainment and triggered an outpouring of tributes from both his fellow game developers…
An OpenAI engineer has been arrested and charged for using (or endeavoring to use) an audio recording device to spy on confidential company communications. That’s according to the US Department of Justice, and while commercial espionage is nothing new, there’s a certain sardonic twist to this one: it seems the accused employee did so with…
I (don’t) want to hold your hand. Of all the discourse to hit the gaming industry in the past month, the conversation around AAA game design has been one of the most interesting. Insomniac’s Wolverine has been the final straw for a lot of gamers, turning the public tide against claustrophobically linear games that spoon-feed…
No creepy Chain Chomp this time. Not 24 hours on from our report on Super Mario 64 for the Atari Jaguar, another homebrew project surfaces, with Nintendo’s groundbreaking N64 platformer “running on”, of all platforms, Milton Bradley’s humble and hefty Vectrex. A video uploaded by “ArcadeJason” shows the 1996 release stripped of its vivid colour…
Please, please, please do not use ‘123456’ as any kind of password. I know that may seem obvious, but apparently it bears repeating if a recent hack of Denmark’s Central Register of Persons (CPR) is anything to go by. To recap, the CPR administration said earlier this month that it had become aware of a…
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Another one bites the dust. If you were around during the height of the ‘Xbox Live Arcade’ initiative, then you might have played a little game called Trials HD. It was a big part of the second ‘Summer of Arcade’ event when it launched in 2009, garnering positive reception and helping Finnish developer RedLynx produce…
If you have an older AMD card, you might want to take a look at a new, easy-to-use tool that allows you to use DLSS rather than FSR 3. I’ve been trying it out, and it works really well and is easy to install. The tool, HelixSR, works by making patched games believe they’re still…
“THUNDERCADE!” is coming to Arcade Archives. After encouraging players to take a relaxing trip to the golf course last week, Hamster is offering something a little more action-packed for this week’s Arcade Archives release: Seta’s vertical shoot ’em up Thundercade (also known as Tokushu Butai U.A.G. and Twin Formation). Released in Japanese arcades in 1987,…