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What am I up to this weekend? Well, since you asked, I’ll be punishing 8Bitdo’s M30 2.4Ghz Sega Genesis/Mega Drive controller with multiple Sonic the Hedgehog 2 playthroughs. That way, I’ll be able to return on Monday and let you know if it’s worth replacing your trusty old wired retro console controller with the wireless alternative, or if cutting the cord is too much of a compromise.The 8Bitdo M30 has been around since 2019 and comes in 2.4GHz and Bluetooth flavors. The latter is sitting pretty at Amazon for $25.99, but you’ll splash out another $20 on a Retro Receiver…
The shooter space is in a weird place right now. As studios and publishers have scrambled to cash in on the live-service boom, we’ve been inundated with various multiplayer games that have had soaring highs and devastating lows. As players, it’s never been easier to sort the wheat from the chaff, but for developers, cutting through the noise has become a major headache. When Nomion Games co-head Dmitri Ogorodnikov split from Escape From Tarkov maker Battlestate Games to head up the new studio, he knew that its first game, Rush is Real, couldn’t follow in the steps of commercial failures…
Playground Games is finally ready to leave the Xbox One behind. Forza Horizon 5 arrived a year after the launch of Microsoft Gaming’s new-gen home console – a compelling system showcase that remains one of the best Xbox Series X games. For as excellent as Horizon 5 is, I have long wondered what Playground could achieve were it able to circumvent the bottleneck created by needing to support decade-old hardware. With the release of Forza Horizon 6 on May 19, fantasy will become reality.”I think you can’t overstate it. It’s a sea change,” says design director Torben Ellert, as we…
Goodbye to Roblox Premium, hello to Roblox Plus. The way you pay for the creation sandbox game’s bonus subscription model is changing at the end of April, and while you can stay on the old system if you want, you’ll be losing benefits including bonus Robux. The good news is that the incoming Roblox Plus subscription actually sounds like a much better deal on the whole, giving you much more for its fixed five-dollar asking price. Roblox Plus will be your only option going forward, as the ability to subscribe to Premium will be removed when the new system comes…
Of the many, many things one can get up to in GTA 5, you can’t stop the train. Rockstar made sure that thing was player-proof in every conceivable way. Naturally, since Crimson Desert has a locomotive, people have started looking into ways to bring it to a halt, and wouldn’t you know it, there’s a way to do so.The YouTuber BjornTheBear compiled his scientific research in the area. His methodology is carefully constructed and executed, so as to get the purest results feasible. By which I mean, he chucked various attacks and objects at the vehicle head-on to see what…
Continuing its consistent streak of delivering a weekly Crimson Desert update, developer Pearl Abyss has scored another big win with its latest set of upgrades. Remember last week, when the developer snatched away the focus dodge flight glitch that was probably a little too powerful? It’s now back, albeit in a slightly altered form, courtesy of an all-new skill. Alongside that comes the first implementation of a weapon display toggle, faster fast forwarding, better fast travel, and new additions to Oongka and Damiane that make both much more useful for actually exploring the open-world game. Hot off the presses of…
The flexible and reactive sandbox that Bethesda RPGs are known for delivers a “level of freedom” that “everybody else runs away from,” reckons retired studio veteran Pete Hines, and a lot of that comes down to the studio’s Creation Engine.In a long interview with journalist Kirk McKeand’s Firezide Chat, Hines digs deeper into an argument he’s made before: nobody does it like Bethesda. Here, he focuses on how Bethesda “leans into the shit” that game developers would normally avoid due to technical or design limitations or concerns.”Look around the industry,” he says. “Who else? This is one of the things…
April 11, 2026: It’s been a long time, but we finally added a new All Star Tower Defense code, offering stardust and gems. What are the new All Star Tower Defense codes? Developer Top Down Games has struck gold with their smash-hit game, blending tower defense gameplay with characters inspired by popular Japanese anime. It may have lost a few with news of an official release elsewhere, but the majority of the anime all-stars are still kicking it as deployable units. The first few missions of the tower defense game may seem easy, but it doesn’t take long before your units start…
There’s no need to check your calendar – April Fools’ Day has come and gone, and a real report from a legitimate outlet suggests that Fortnite studio Epic Games is building a Disney extraction shooter with the intent to release it later this year.This Disney extraction shooter is expected to launch in November, according to Bloomberg’s report, which cites four current or former employees with knowledge of the project. It’s “along the lines” of Arc Raiders, but will feature Disney characters fighting enemies on their way to an extraction point.In a statement to the outlet, Epic’s senior director of global…
It’s been a bit of a journey for Starfield. Bethesda’s massive space RPG launched with huge expectations, a slightly wobbly landing for some players, and then… a slow but steady evolution. Updates, tweaks, and expansions have been gradually reshaping it into something much closer to fans’ initial high expectations. Now, with the arrival of Terran Armada, Starfield is getting another push forward. If you’ve been keeping an eye on Starfield, this recently released DLC is one of the more interesting additions so far – and I’ll get into just why in a minute, but if you’re planning on getting it,…