Intellivison's troubled Amico gets official unboxing but still no hint of a release date
Posted on March 4, 2023
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| Mittie Cheatwood
Intellivision has released an official Amico unboxing video, insisting it continues to "push forward" with the trouble console's release, despite the project having now been delayed three times and a recent SEC filing suggesting the company may not be able to operate beyond July.
Intellivision's newly released unboxing video sees chief technology officer John Alvarado showcasing a "fully functional" Amico console, supposedly intended to be shipped to Hans Ippish, president of European operations, for demonstration to European partners.
[Read More]On the trail of the odd one out in the Virtua Fighter series
Posted on March 4, 2023
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| Patria Henriques
Editor's note: After an outrageously long hiatus, Sega's Virtua Fighter is back with the release of Ultimate Showdown on PlayStation this coming week. To celebrate, we're republishing some older pieces on the series, including this piece from June last year.
SEGA has just celebrated its 60th anniversary - happy birthday you mad, beautiful bastards - which seems as good a time as any to reflect on the company's finest. Maybe it's OutRun, in all its iconic glory, Super Monkey Ball with its minimalist brilliance or perhaps you could even look a little closer to the modern day and put Yakuza 0 forward as the best of the bunch.
[Read More]Pony Island dev's deck-building horror Inscryption gets October release date
Posted on March 4, 2023
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| Patria Henriques
Inscryption, the "dark and disturbing" deck-building horror game from Pony Island and The Hex developer Daniel Mullins, will be shuffling onto PC just in time for Halloween, on 19th October.
Described as blend of deck-building rogue-like, escape-room puzzler, and psychological horror, Inscryption - a much-expanded version of Mullins' game jam title Sacrifices Must Be Made - traps players in the cabin of a sadistic stranger known as Leshy, forcing them to play a mysterious game using cards acquired through "
[Read More]Rare on Sea of Thieves' massive Pirates of the Caribbean update and getting crossovers right
Posted on March 4, 2023
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| Trudie Dory
One of the more leftfield surprises to come out of this year's E3 (although in hindsight, it's such a natural fit, it shouldn't have been much of a surprise at all), was the announcement that Captain Jack Sparrow would be soon making his way to the Sea of Thieves as part of a mammoth new Pirates of the Caribbean crossover story arc for the swashbuckling multiplayer adventure. And ahead of its arrival this Tuesday, 22nd June, we had chance to chat with Rare to find out more about its impressively ambitious free update.
[Read More]Rise of the Tomb Raider Croft Manor: Blood Ties - Relics and Documents collectible locations
Posted on March 4, 2023
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| Mittie Cheatwood
Previous page Page 4 of 4 Throughout Croft Manor are tons of Blood Ties Relics and Documents - 54 Relics, 40 Documents and 2 Murals, to be exact - which flesh out the back story of both Lara and her family. Most are optional, some are essential for finishing the story, and all are required to mop up the expansion's achievements.
These are listed by how they appear in order inside the menu, so you can scan through the list and easily locate what you're missing.
[Read More]Rogue Trooper Redux review | Eurogamer.net
Posted on March 4, 2023
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| Trudie Dory
A wonky blaster retains its charm, but Rogue Trooper still deserves better. War is hell. But sometimes the view is spectacular. One of the most memorable things about Rogue Trooper first time round, on PS2 and Xbox in 2006, was its beautifully realised prog-rock skybox, a gorgeous, pulsing black hole haloed by sparkling particles that lazily waltzed in slow, chromatic eddies. The new Redux version again drops players directly into the action, firing you down into the toxic battlefields of Nu-Earth from low orbit in a screaming and fairly rickety-looking deployment pod.
[Read More]"A true visionary": tributes to Syberia creator Benoît Sokal, who has died aged 66
Posted on March 3, 2023
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| Mittie Cheatwood
Benoît Sokal, creator of the Syberia series, has died aged 66.
French video game company Microids said in a blog post that Sokal passed away on 28th May after battling a long-term illness.
Belgian comic book artist Sokal is perhaps best known in the world of video games for creating the Syberia adventure games. But his first game for Microids was 1999 adventure Amerzone, which was based on Sokal's popular 1986 Inspector Canardo comic strip L'Amerzone .
[Read More]Burnt out by abuse over a game he didn't make, the creator of Jalopy is trying to move on
Posted on March 3, 2023
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| Fernande Dalal
In January 2019, Greg Pryjmachuk, the founder of the studio Minskworks and the developer of Jalopy, was working from home on his latest project Landlord's Super when he caught sight of an unusual announcement from Jalopy's publisher Excalibur Games on Twitter.
Excalibur had just revealed its latest game, Road to Guangdong, a simulation/narrative title about a trip across China in order to save a family restaurant from ruin.
For Pryjmachuk, the game seemed somewhat familiar.
[Read More]Fable 2 release date announced
Posted on March 3, 2023
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| Mittie Cheatwood
Microsoft has announced that Fable 2 will be released in Europe on 24th October exclusively for Xbox 360. Meanwhile, the Fable 2 Pub Games title for Xbox Live Arcade will be released next week on 13th August for 800 Microsoft Points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.60). Fable 2 is a vast, branching, emotional action-RPG developed by Lionhead, in which players embark on a journey heavily influenced by practical and moral choices.
[Read More]French outlet which successfully defended itself from Quantic Dream bosses' lawsuit releases statement
Posted on March 3, 2023
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| Trudie Dory
French investigative news outlet Mediapart has published a statement after being cleared of all defamation charges filed by Quantic Dream execs David Cage and Guillaume de Fondaumière.
It's the first formal statement to come from any of the parties involved since the court verdict was reached earlier this month. The statement reveals Cage and de Fondaumère had objected to seven passages in Mediapart's article concerning their actions as executives at Quantic Dream, developer of Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls.
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