With the new Obi-Wan Kenobi series doing great things on Disnet+, releasing Knights of the Old Republic II on the same day as the show’s best episode so far is expert timing. Subtitled The Sith Lords, the game (known more commonly as KOTOR 2) was initially released back in 2004,Read More →
The Xbox GoldenEye 007 may still be unreleased, but that hasn’t stopped online achievements being unlocked…Read More →
Fans of Turrican or the Super Famicom/Super Nintendo Entertainment System may know of Rendering Ranger: R2. A rare game from Manfred Trenz with some similarities to Turrican, the game was limited in its original Japan-only run to a mere 10,000 copies. Unsurprisingly, Rendering Ranger: R2 is something of a collector’sRead More →
They say you can run DOOM on anything these days. To prove it, playing DOOM in the BIOS is now possible. Forget fridges and microwaves, DOOM has been added to the Coreboot BIOS, with the coreDOOM payload compatible with a number of new motherboards (including Dell Precision T1650 and newRead More →
Is Go Straight: The Ultimate Guide to Side-Scrolling Beat-’Em-Ups the book for your coffee table? Do you remember the time when you played The Simpsons at the arcade? Or the awesomeness of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and beating up Shredder’s soldiers? Or fighting in the streets on Street of RageRead More →
Ever wished your Nintendo 64 graphics didn’t look quite as chunky as they seem these days? Well, maybe you have, maybe you haven’t. After all, it’s an era-defining look for video games, with everything from Super Mario 64 and GoldenEye 007 to Wave Race 64 and Ocaraina of Time, andRead More →
Backers of the GamesMaster book, GamesMaster: The Oral History, have received an intriguing update in the past few days. While printing PDFs have been issued to the printer, with a “late August” target for delivery to the publisher’s warehouse in the UK, backers have been blessed with a bonus chapterRead More →
Blaze’s Sean Cleaver engaged with fans on Discord this week following the unveiling of the Evercade EXP for an ask-me-anything (AMA) session. In a revealing set of exchanges, helped by some intelligent questioning from the community, various facts about the Evercade EXP and the future direction of the entire platformRead More →
Aren’t all the games found yet? Jeez… You gotta love game preservationists. SimCopter 64, a mysteriously canceled N64 game, has been unceremoniously revealed to the public via video evidence, and it appears to be fully playable on a custom build. If you aren’t from the era of gaming where projectsRead More →
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