Sega & Higround Are Collaborating On A Range Of New Sonic & Dreamcast-Inspired Keyboards

An Early Arcade Title From The Creator of Ghosts ‘n Goblins & Bionic Commando Is Heading To Consoles

Konami’s ‘Roc ‘N Rope’ is coming to consoles this week. This week’s Arcade Archives release is Konami’s “wire-action” title Roc ‘N Rope, an early arcade game from the creator of the Ghosts ‘n Goblins series and Bionic Commando and the co-creator of Resident Evil, Tokuro Fujiwara. Released in 1983, Roc ‘N Rope was one of…

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The Forge—Tips for beginner miners, crafting recipes, and picking your next equipment upgrades

The Forge—a Roblox RPG meets mining sim—throws a ton at you just within those first few minutes of questing, cave exploration, and crafting. It’s a little more serious about the RPG part of the formula than I anticipated, so when the tutorials turned me loose, I’ll admit it, I floundered. Fortunately, after countless trial-and-error crafts…

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Steam’s latest cozy game has a fascinating backstory: Not only is it a PS1 game that predates the ‘cozy’ era, but it’s only officially available in English thanks to fan translators

Just a hair over two years ago, I wrote about a fan translation of a landmark Japanese PS2 game, Boku no Natsuyasumi 2, making a landmark “cozy” game playable in English for the very first time. We didn’t call games cozy back in the early 2000s, but were it released today, the slice-of-life adventure game…

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