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When Nintendo first revealed the upcoming Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition for Switch back in May, I wasn't necessarily sure where to place my excitement. On one hand, I'm always happy to see Nintendo pay homage to its roots in unique ways, but since the NES will be celebrating its 40th...

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom has beaten the likes of Astro Bot and Doom: The Dark Ages to be the most wishlisted game of the Summer Showcase Season. That's according to data from IGN Playlists, via GameIndustry.biz. Prior to last week's cracking Nintendo Direct, PlayStation 5 exclusive...

Disney's Tarzan isn't necessarily the greatest platformer that was released for the Game Boy Color, but it actually holds an interesting secret for those interested enough to look deep enough. Originally released in 1999 for the Nintendo handheld, the game was shipped with hidden rumble...

GSD, via GamesIndustry.biz, has shared the latest sales data for the video game market across Europe in May 2024, and it looks to have been a quiet month. So quiet, in fact, that the entire top ten failed to sell as many copies as May 2023's highly-anticipated The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the...

An ex-Halo Infinite developer has created a brand-new Halo game with Unreal Engine 5, and you'll be able to play it for free soon. Rumours have said the next Halo game will be made using Unreal Engine 5, meaning this project could be our first glimpse as to what that could look like...

At Nintendo's Indie World showcase in April, publisher and developer Super Evil Megacorp announced it would be releasing the roguelike action title Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate on the Switch in July. As we get closer to next month, it's now been confirmed this former Apple...

A few years ago I was lucky enough to visit Austria - more specifically its capital Vienna and nearby city Salzburg. It was the latter place I fell in love with, as visiting Fortress Hohensalzburg that towers over the city like a stone sentry, I was able to get my first glimpse of the Austrian...

In FROGUE, the player controls the frog warrior Kene Legstrong and has the mission of stopping a curse that happens every 100 years with lots of action, strategy and even time manipulation The game, developed by Brazilian independent studio Wired Dreams and released for PC in February 2024...

While Owls Inc., SWERY's development studio, is best known for titles like Deadly Premonition and The Good Life. Its next title is Death Game Hotel, where you wager your body parts during high-stakes gambling. It is the company's first VR title, promising to combine the VR's immersive...

Sometimes a game will just slip under our radar amongst big AAA releases and it isn't until Steam offers free downloads that we can finally get our hands on some underrated bangers. Steam has already dropped six free games we can get our hands on this week as well as an extra 12 a few days...

Xbox Game Pass offers access to a wide library of games, including some stellar day one launches. Later this year, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and Avowed will all release on Game Pass on day one - and that's just to name a few highlights. Of course, this all...

Right at the beginning of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, 'adventure' is a bit of a dirty word. When the wizard Gandalf first meets the timid Bilbo Baggins, a comfort-loving, tobacco-smoking Hobbit, he asks, "I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very...

When you discussing the most expensive video games of all time, the 1993 Mega Drive shmup Eliminate Down is likely to crop up pretty quickly. Developed by Aprinet and published by Soft Vision, it's one of the rarest games on the console; it never saw release outside Japan and South Korea...

Some never-before-seen test footage of a lost Indiana Jones FMV project has been recently shared online. The footage was shown during a four-hour video conversation between the Tech Talk host Daniel Albu and former LucasArts employee Mike Levine on YouTube (the footage starts at 1:38:06) and...

Hello everyone! Today I'm glad to present to you my first library: NitroFS Video Player Lib. This library allows you to play video (with no sound) from Nitro FileSystem. It also comes with a tool that allows you to convert videos to the *.EMC (Eponasoft Multimedia Codec) file format. This...

An all-time classic PlayStation 2 game is reportedly coming to PlayStation Plus, and we simply can't wait. PlayStation Plus has unlocked an entirely new library of bangers with the inclusion of PlayStation 2 games, kicking things off with Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, Star Wars: The...

During Nintendo's latest Direct showcase, the incredibly promising The Hundred Line -Last Defence Academy- was revealed from developer Too Kyoo Games and publisher Aniplex. Born via a collaboration between Danganronpa series writer Kazutaka Kodaka and Zero Escape creator Kotaro Uchikoshi, the...

Greetings, Here is a quick note to let you know that a brand new cross-platform multiplayer update has launched for the acclaimed farming adventure, My Time At Sandrock. This update is twinned with the game entering Xbox Game Pass and allows PC and Xbox players to play together in the same...

MMO Habbo – also known as Habbo Hotel – is a game which many 20-something players will remember from their youth. It launched in 2000, and in 2020, it was revealed that a whopping 316 million players had been registered in the game – a figure that was boosted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Developer...

We've all been tempted to call in help when struggling with the most formidable bosses in any given Dark Souls title. Now, courtesy of a recent comment by FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki, that could soon become an even easier prospect as a Dark Souls title including "beginning to end...