“As an artist, you can’t live in your past”. Jon Hare sold Sensible Software over 25 years ago in 1999, but the legendary name continues to be associated with him—so you’d imagine he would be keen to leverage it when possible, right? Not so. In an interview with Time Extension, Hare—who recently took the lead…
From the developer of ‘Hoonigans’ and ‘Nitro’. Shane McCafferty, the co-founder of the developer Rocketship Park and designer of the impressive Game Boy Color racing games Hoonigans and Nitro, is currently working on a promising new title for the classic Nintendo handheld that looks to be a randomly generated platformer similar in style to Mossmouth’s…
Phil Spencer: “We love the work that we do with Nintendo”. Since Nintendo’s Switch 2 announcement last week, multiple companies have revealed they’ll be backing this next-generation hybrid system. Now, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has officially confirmed Xbox’s support. Speaking on the Gamertag Radio podcast this week, Spencer mentioned how Microsoft was “really looking…
Tomb Raider Remastered developer Aspyr has issued a statement saying that its “top priority” is to fix bugs and texture issues in the recently released Challenge Mode update for Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered, but it also denied accusations that the new outfits included in the update were created with generative AI. The Challenge Mode update…
Atari 2600+ is also an “evergreen project”. Atari has just purchased a controlling stake in Swedish publisher Thunderful, which might lead you to assume the company is abandoning its ‘retro first’ approach for something a little more contemporary. However, speaking to Gamesindustry.biz, Atari CEO Wade Rosen made it clear that classic gaming is still very…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. Forget letter grades, numbers, stars, and percentages: No metric for evaluating videogames has ever matched what Chet Faliszek and Erik…
Potential collab in the works? Music star Abel Makkonen Tesfaye – better known as The Weeknd – has made no secret of his love of Michael Jackson, and cites the late pop sensation as a key influence on his music. The multi-million selling Canadian artist – famous for tracks such as Blinding Lights, Can’t Feel…
Nintendo has won yet another award at The Game Awards 2019. The category for “Best Family Game” was a guaranteed win for Nintendo, as all of the games nominated were theirs. However, only one game can win, and that honor went to Luigi’s Mansion 3, which released on Halloween. Nintendo of America reacted to the…
The latest ARMS Party Crash event took place over the weekend and the furious battle between Spring Man and Ribbon Girl ended up being a close one. Spring Man defeated Ribbon Girl by 52% to 48%. Well done to all those who participated in the action! Source
Classic boomer shooters Heretic + Hexen received a lavish overhaul courtesy of Nightdive Studios last year, making these classics of the 2.5D FPS era much more accessible on PC. Playing the sequels to Raven Software’s early shooters is not so straightforward, however. Hexen 2 is available to buy on Steam in its original, unvarnished form,…