News hit the web today that Nintendo is fully embracing their 8bit roots with the upcoming release of the Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition, or “Mini NES”; a tiny USB powered game system for your HDTV that’s shaped like the classic console but with thirty games built […]
Released in 1983 for the Apple II, Atari 8bit and Commodore families as well as the IBM PC, Doug Smith’s Lode Runner was amongst a string of hits from publisher Brøderbund that included Choplifter and Karateka. With shades of arcade, platform and puzzle games all rolled into one, […]
At E3 this year Microsoft announced Xbox Play Anywhere, their cross-buy initiative that allows people to buy the game once from either the Xbox or Windows Stores and then play it on both PC and console with access to shared game saves in the cloud and (in some […]
Update: Niantic have released a statement in answer to this: “We recently discovered that the Pokémon GO account creation process on iOS erroneously requests full access permission for the user’s Google account. However, Pokémon GO only accesses basic Google profile information (specifically, your User ID and email address) […]
Nick the Gent over at the very awesome Deconstructing Video Games very kindly nominated us last week for a Leibster Award – a neat little version of a blogging chain letter where you talk a little about yourself and then nominate other blogs you are a fan of to […]
Being a small fish in the big ocean that is Elite Dangerous might make you feel that it is going to be one hell of a grind to get that fancy space ship you’ve been lusting over; but if you’re willing to do a little multitasking with professions […]
So it seems the August 8th – 11th release date (depending on where you live) is locked in as Hello Games’ Sean Murray tweeted that finally No Man’s Sky has gone gold. It's happened. No Man's Sky just went gold. I'm so incredibly proud of this tiny team. […]
To coincide with the release of Red Dead Redemption on Backward Compatibility RockStar and Microsoft have also made quite a bit of the DLC for the game free for a limited time (thanks to my gaming mate ZB for the heads up): Legends and Killers – Marketplace Link […]
Interesting article on Game Revolution today citing that a lot of tests have been done on the new RX-480 card and it seems to be drawing more power over the PCI Express slot than what it was designed for. As part of the testing that goes on for any graphics […]
Yup – it is finally coming to backward compatibility for real. No matter what version you have it will work from July 8th. Here is Rockstar’s official announcement: Today we’re happy to announce that Red Dead Redemption will be released as part of Microsoft’s Xbox One Backward Compatibility […]
The story of one person’s attempts to make their Rampage Arcade1Up cabinet do more.
A look back at some of the games we've played on Xbox One over the years.
Our own tips and experiences while trying to make a living out in the black.
The Late Night Session 