A new trailer for Playtonic Games’ Yooka-Laylee premiered today, and shows off all the major characters revealed to date running on game hardware — plus a few unnamed characters we haven’t seen before. And one we have. Yup, that’s Shovel Knight, making yet another appearance outside of his own game (his fifth, if you’re counting). […]
In the 1990’s the company known as Interplay gave us a wide variety of characters on 16-bit and 32-bit consoles. Earthworm Jim, Clay Fighter, The Lost Vikings, and this: Now it’s all up for sale. Interplay is dropping the proverbial cow on the whole enterprise. You would be forgiven for thinking Interplay went out of […]
The twice-a-year charity marathon known as Games Done Quick has become the highlight of my week. Whenever it occurs, nothing else matters. Watching this nation’s top thumb jockeys make hash of the world’s best video games, live, is endlessly entertaining. And forget the computer browser — I plug in my Roku stick, boot up the […]
It wasn’t too long ago that one of the prototypes for the SNES-CD system, otherwise known as the Nintendo Playstation, were discovered. Shortly after, the BIOS files for the system were dumped (basically, the operating system that would have made it run). There were no games released for it, of course, so that left the […]
Keiji Inafune, creator of Mega Man, left Capcom a few years back to pursue his own projects. The most hyped of these projects, Mighty No. 9, was heralded as the return of Mega Man’s glory days, if not in name, than in spirit. Today the game was released, and yesterday the review embargo was lifted. […]
It’s well known among gamers how badly GameStop is run, but have you ever wondered if the store would actually purchase a game it had thrown away hours earlier? This was confirmed by two stereotypical dudebros, Dee and Dave, who run their own YouTube channel full of videos covering their dumpster-diving exploits. This time, they […]
In 1993 four Swedish teenagers programmed a space shmup for the Amiga computer called Shenandoah: Daughter of the Stars. The project fell through when the game was nearly completed, and the title never saw release. Its assets were thought lost forever until one of the programmers discovered an old box in his basement labeled “Amiga […]
For over a decade now, it’s been the dream of Sony and Microsoft to make their Playstation and XBox consoles viewed as more than just game-playing things. They want to be the all-in-one media hub of your entertainment center, and they’ve been fighting a vertically uphill battle to accomplish this against apathetic consumers that are […]
Warwick Davis (Return of the Jedi, Willow, Harry Potter) will be one of a number of stars in attendance for this weekend’s MCM Birmingham Comic Con, running from 19th-20th March at The NEC. Davis will be joined by other talent including Lindsay Wagner (The Bionic Woman), Tom Mison (Ichabod Crane, Sleepy Hollow) Robert Llewellyn & Danny John-Jules (Kryten […]
Phoenix Online Publishing and Overflow Games have released a demo for their new fantasy RPG title Cornerstone: The Song of Tyrim, set to be released on PC, Mac and Linux from 26th April. The game will combine mechanics such as crafting, combat and puzzle solving in a plot which sees young viking Tyrim set out on an […]
Between this news and Geno, Sunday is the day of game makers’ regrets. Next to Smash Bros, the biggest cross-company mashup game is Project X-Zone, which stars characters from Namco, Sega and Capcom, plus others. But it could have had more. Platinum Games’ Hideki Kamiya was asked on Twitter if he was offered to slip […]
Game maker Akira Kitamura, who once worked for Capcom, was interviewed for a behind-the-scenes Mega Man fanbook called the Rockman Maniax Collection. The book only came out in Japan in 2011, and a fan translation wasn’t made until recently. Kitamura worked as main planner for the Mega Man series, and in the interview he revealed […]