In 1984 Rob Berk put together a questionnaire that ran in Steve Young’s publication called Silverball Quarterly. The questionnaire basically said, “We are considering doing a national pinball convention. Are you interested? Would you come?” The resounding answer was “Yes, it would be a good idea.” Pinball Expo is the brain child of Rob Berk…
Otherwise known as Super Buster Bros. in North America. A new fanmade Mega Drive port of the SNES shooter Super Pang is currently in development, with its developer @RCampeador recently sharing an update on the project’s progress on Twitter / X. Super Pang, in case you’ve never heard of it, is the second game in…
Though the RTX 50 series line has just launched, plenty of gamers are still choosing 40 series cards, partially because the former is so hard to get a hold of. With increasing power demands for those still rather beefy cards, one company has put out a neat adapter with built-in fans, temperature and power consumption…
A new trailer is now available. Earlier this month, Tainted Pact, the developer of horror games like Suffer the Night, Terror at Oakheart, and Massacre At The Mirage, released the trailer for their next Steam game, Flesh Made Fear. The game, according to its developer, is intended to serve as a “homage to the PSX-era…
I’ve only spent a brief few hours with Obsidian’s RPG/fish-person-friend simulator Avowed so far, but I’m enjoying my time with it. What I haven’t been enjoying is the occasional frame rate dip, along with a general twitchiness our Nick highlighted in his performance analysis. However, it turns out there’s actually a simple tweak that enables…
Prologue: Go Wayback! is probably one of the hardest survival games I’ve played in a while, but don’t let the supposed difficulty put you off giving the survival roguelike a go. Because if the playtests revealed anything, it’s that anything’s possible when you have a pocket full of blackberries and access to a heat source….
Fallout 76 has become another feather in Bethesda’s cap, assisted by the fact that it’s the game best-positioned to take advantage of the popularity of Amazon’s fantastic Fallout TV show, and thanks to the cavalcade of transformative free updates. But it wasn’t always like this. At launch, the reception was rough. An online-only Fallout game…
Type advantage against bank ballances. The Pokémon European International Championship has once again returned to London this year, bringing with it competition, events, hands-on opportunities and, of course, merch. Yes, London’s pop-up Pokémon Center is back at the ExCel until 23rd February, and it is once again packed with enough exclusive goodies to make even…
Krikzz’s cart is king. Flash carts have become a vital part of modern-day retro gaming. While collecting is one of the most appealing aspects of our beloved hobby, it isn’t without its problems; the more desirable titles are rising in value with each passing year, putting them out of reach for most people. There’s also…
The project seems to be the same as a free SDK from 2013. Recently, the reto developer Orion Soft released a “new” $15 PocketStation dev kit on itch.io, generating some excitement online among those who have always wanted to develop games for the Sony device but never knew where to start. The dev kit is…