“He’s done it again”. For many gamers in their 30s and 40s, the timeline of video game history shifted at the turn of the millennium when Sega transitioned from a hardware maker to a third-party publisher. The Japanese company had been Nintendo’s rival since the 1980s, and attracted legions of fans thanks to its beloved…
Takaya Imamura is the designer of Fox McCloud, Tingle, and Captain Falcon. As you may already be aware, Capcom recently announced what it is calling the 12th official entry in the Mega Man series, Mega Man: Dual Override, and, to celebrate, it is currently hosting a robot masters design competition over on Twitter/X. This competition…
It’s still in beta, however. NES-to-SNES port master Infidelity has just made the first beta version of his Contra Force port available online. “The only thing that is missing are the orchestral DPCM samples for all the BGM tracks,” says the developer, who has an amazing track record when it comes to bringing 8-bit classics…
Guess who reclaimed pole position. We’ve got our latest look at the UK physical gaming charts and, rather expectedly, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond has taken quite the tumble from its bronze-medal debut last week. Samus’ latest now finds itself in 15th position, with the top 10 awash with Switch and Switch 2 titles as we…
JaJaMaru no Hyakki Yagyou Den was announced this past weekend. This weekend, City Connection put on a special event in Japan, called City Connection 20th Anniversary Thanks Fes, to celebrate the company’s 20th anniversary. At the event, the developer/publisher showed off development artwork from several Jaleco games, gave a look at the unreleased Famicom game…
As hardware reviews go, this one has probably been the most challenging one I’ve ever undertaken in my three decades of testing and rating PC hardware. Not because the product is incredibly complex or difficult to use; far from it, in fact. And not because it was a bug-ridden, early-release mess either. Indeed not, as…
Digital Eclipse and Atari confirm you’ll need to “download” it. If you ended up getting the physical version of Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection for the Switch or Switch 2 last week, we’ve got some news you might not be too happy about. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
In November a beta build of Fallout: New Vegas that is a whole two gigabytes bigger than the release version was uncovered on an Xbox 360 dev kit. It contained locations, textures, and even whole NPCs that were ultimately cut to get the finished game down to a more workable size. But what was too…
The trailer for Divinity, the new Larian joint, was one of the definite highlights of the announcements from this year’s Game Awards. Yes, I will play a Wicker Man folk-horror RPG from the people who brought us that creepy House of Healing monster hospital in Baldur’s Gate 3. The announcement has sent a bunch of…
The second annual Warhammer Conference took place in September—two whole days of academic talks about Warhammer 40,000 as a model of social power relations in Western societies since the 19th century and the terror of androgyny with particular reference to xenos species at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. I’m still working my way through…