When I was a youngster I had the pleasure of playing the fantastic platformer of Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Megadrive. A game which featured a ring collecting blue hedgehog, that could spin, run, jump and roll about, at the fastest of speeds in a battle against a number of menacing enemies and the…
You’ll need an original N64 to install the update, though. When we reviewed the excellent Analogue 3D recently, one negative we picked up on was the fact that flash cart compatibility was inconsistent. Some Analogue 3D owners have reported that older flash carts work fine, while others have said that more recent examples, like the…
This is the best CPU you can buy for gaming, though it’s also a very good all-round processor. If you need any other reason to buy one, you should know that this is as cheap as it’s ever been right now. Key specs: 8 cores | 16 threads | 5.2 GHz boost | 96 MB…
I got too greedy. My clone marines had purged the xeno hive, taking minimal damage, and were ready to extract. But as a faceless desk jockey working for a corporation in a grim capitalist retro-future, I wouldn’t let them. No, not when there was more loot to be found. On the bulbous screen of my…
Resident Evil Requiem’s director, Koshi Nakanishi, has made it abundantly clear that the two games which most closely relate to his latest work are Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 7, both of which you can buy right now at a sizeable discount via the Fanatical Capcom All-Stars Bundle. Requiem is a new continuation of…
“It was really expensive to do all this s**t in those days”. When people think about The Beatles in relation to the world of games, the 2009 rhythm title The Beatles: Rock Band is usually the first thing to spring to mind — and for pretty understandable reasons. Not only was it the most successful…
Sound the Reedus alarm—it seems all-but-certain that Death Stranding 2 is headed for PC in the surprisingly near future. As spotted by Gematsu—part-time videogame age-rating board and full-time surprise spoiler (I ain’t complaining), the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) recently surfaced a rating for a “Windows PC” version of Hideo Kojima’s latest postman simulator. It’s…
Activision’s camo-clad cash cow Call of Duty has ruled the shooter roost for almost 20 years in the US, consistently topping the charts for games involving guns since 2006. But according to games industry analyst Mat Piscatella, that might just change in 2025. Sharing some insights on Bluesky, (via GameSpot) Piscatella pointed out “the last…
Now with 50% more Ninja Gaiden, 100% more Battletoads. Updated with Battletoads and Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos from the November update. Remember, this list evolves as users rate the games within, so head to the game profiles and rate them out of 10 if you’d like to see the rankings below…
Trials in Arc Raiders is effectively a ranking system where you compete against other players for high scores on five challenges each week. When you complete a task for this week’s challenges, you’ll earn points towards that objective and earn a place on the leaderboard. The competition can get intense, to say the least. But…