John Bowe looks back at some of the most memorable games in 1996. 1996, that old chestnut. Some great films were released, and perhaps some even better books and music. I expect so. It didn’t matter though, because 1996 was the year that gaming overtook them all, leaping ahead withRead More →
Bitmap Bureau’s twin-stick shooter retro-style Xeno Crisis is being ported to the GameCube and Nintendo 64. This 2019 release made its way to most modern consoles at the time including the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. Originally starting off as a Kickstarter, it reached nearly 1,300 backers and is nowRead More →
Wondering if the Nintendo Switch GoldenEye 007 looks all that different to the N64 original? If you don’t have an N64 handy to check, you might be surprised. Despite a lack of serious remastering (like the Xbox Live Arcade GoldenEye version leaked in 2021 that kickstarted all this madness) itRead More →
We’ve waited and waited and then we waited again. We were told “next week” then “next month” then “end of January.” And at last, the rumour was right: GoldenEye 007 is heading to Nintendo Switch Online on Friday, January 27th, 2023 – in two days time! Announced earlier today, theRead More →
Nintendo, that great leviathan which has survived the trends, storms and triumphs of their past. Ever does it appear that they have toiled to generate an unpopular opinion from me, and mostly they have made good on their efforts. I am just going to go ahead and say it, MyRead More →
It has been almost two years of rumours and eventually announcements, but still GoldenEye 007 is yet to appear on Nintendo Switch or Xbox. Despite a trailer at last week’s Game Awards, the game is still to materialize in the Nintendo 64 app on Switch, and there is no signRead More →
It seems that retro game consoles werne’t as cheap as you thought they were. £500 for a Steam Deck sure seems expensive. Come to think of it, so does £700 for a PlayStation 5. If only game consoles were as cheap as they were in the old days, right? Well,Read More →
The creation of a YouTube channel based on video game development by Nintendo’s very own Masahiro Sakurai means that we can get sneak peaks on early work that we wouldn’t see otherwise. A recent video by Sakurai revealed a prototype of Super Smash Bros. for the N64. The creator ofRead More →
Thanks to coder Ryan Dwyer, Rare’s N64 classic title Perfect Dark has now been decompiled for PC, making it available for modding. Having previously worked on the NTSC version and a re-release that rectified bugs, Dwyer has opened up the gates of possibility for this game, where PC players canRead More →
