We chat to Dotemu and Tribute Games about the road from 1987 to 2022. It feels like an age ago now, but when Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge was announced it triggered excitement among gamers of all ages. For sure, some of the reaction came from players of a certain vintage that remember the […]
It’s time to b-b-b-b-b-b-b-boost! We can imagine that one of the most fun things about being a video game composer (except, you know, writing music for a video game) is the variety of projects you’ll get to work on. One time you might be writing music for a cyberpunk action-adventure game, then your next project […]
A “legend of the UK games industry”. Co-founder of Ocean Software, David Ward, has sadly passed away. A titan of the UK games industry, Ward’s Ocean Software was one of the biggest European game developers and publishers in the ’80s and ’90s. This news was revealed by Just Flight founder Andy Payne on Twitter, and […]
“It really didn’t touch the player the way we hoped it would”. Metroid: Other M hasn’t has the smoothest of rides since it launched for the Wii back in 2010. Although widely praised for its combat and visuals, heavy criticism was given for Samus’s characterisation and the overall narrative. Although the game has earned some […]
1983 called, and it wants its consumer tech back. Remember the Clockwork Pi GameShell? We covered this open source DIY handheld in 2018, mainly because it resembled a Game Boy and could run MAME, Game Boy Advance and NES titles. It raised $290,429 on Kickstarter and we really enjoyed tinkering around with it – so […]
“We were able to develop passionately until the end”. Square Enix’s next big RPG release is the Live A Live remake for Switch this July, an HD-2D remake of the Super Famicom cult classic. In anticipation of the release, Famitsu sat down with the original’s director, Takashi Tokita — who went on to direct Parasite […]
“I didn’t want Return to Monkey Island to be just a throwback game”. Last month, the internet was roused from its dreary state by the announcement that Return to Monkey Island was in development and would mark a return to the franchise for its original creator, Ron Gilbert. Better yet, it’s slated to release at […]
We’d be first in line, but have all the fans played it already? That Mother 3 never got officially localised and released outside Japan has been a source of sadness and frustration for EarthBound fans in the West since the game launched on Game Boy Advance back in 2006. The sequel to cult classic EarthBound […]
Mother-lovin’ Sunday. It’s the second Sunday in May, which means it’s Mother’s Day in a great many countries around the world (although not in the UK, where Mothering Sunday falls in March). We’re celebrating Mother’s Day this year in a very special way and looking back fondly on one particular Mother that Nintendo fans around […]
Now live. Although Dying Light 2 was limited to a cloud release on the Nintendo Switch, the first Dying Light was actually a remarkable achievement on the hybrid platform. With this in mind, the Switch version of the original game has this week received a new update. According to the game’s official social channels, this […]