GSD market data has been released which shows that Super Mario 3D All-Stars dominated the video game charts for the month of September 2020. This chart data covers sales from the following continents; Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia. Sadly, Nintendo does not disclose digital sales with the GSD. What is impressive is how Super…
It seems Nintendo isn’t done with the lucrative Poke Ball Plus as a new patent has emerged online showing a revised edition. The new Poke Ball Plus aims to provide players with the following “properly organise the components of a spherical controller, to allow various operations using a game control; to improve the degree of…
Mario Kart World and Pokémon top the list. It’s once again that time of year where companies sum up all sorts of things about the year that was, and with this in mind, Nintendo’s Japanese branch has revealed the best-selling games on the Switch and Switch 2 eShop in 2025. Read the full article on…
The wintry solo survival game The Long Dark has been around a long time—it launched into early access in 2014 and updates have been rolling ever since—but it looks like developer Hinterland Games is preparing to move on to something new. Studio founder and creative director Raphael van Lierop made a return to Twitter last…
A life saver. Flash carts have become such an integral part of retro gaming that they are now evolving over time, with newer variants boasting special features that go beyond merely running ROMs on vintage hardware. Krikzz’s range of EverDrive carts is a good example of this iterative process; the Ukrainian engineer and modder is…
Thanks to user DamnInteresting on Hacker News, I’ve found my latest rabbit hole obsession on the Internet Archive: A significant portion of the English back catalogue of Byte Magazine, the granddaddy of personal computing periodicals, stretching all the way back to 1975. If you’re unfamiliar with Byte, the magazine basically grew up alongside personal computing….
It wasn’t too long ago you could pick up a sub-$500 gaming PC or gaming laptop in the yearly sales. Sure, it’d almost certainly be reliant on an iGPU or older tech, and it wouldn’t be the most powerful machine in the world. But thanks to the ongoing memory crisis (and various other supply chain…
Great gameplay never goes out of style. Great games are great no matter how much time has passed, and that remains true of Company of Heroes. The RTS classic that robbed us of our evenings and weekends back in 2006 has returned to the Nintendo Switch in the form of the Company of Heroes Collection…
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a game of almost unparalleled freedom, and we all know what that really means: the freedom to murder any NPC you can get your hands on. Usually, the danger of any RPG murder spree is that you might kill someone who’s vital to a later main quest event, and end up…
During today’s Triple-i Initiative stream, developer Coldblood Inc. shared a first look at its upcoming horror life sim, Neverway. It’s the debut game from a studio co-founded by Celeste pixel artist Pedro Medeiros, with a soundtrack from Hyper Light Drifter composer Disasterpeace. Neverway looks to combine a few of my favorite things: late night brooding,…