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Three more NES games have been added to the Nintendo Classics service on Switch Online, including Pokémon studio Game Freak’s first ever title.All three games – Pac-Man, The Tower of Druaga and Mendel Palace – were originally published by Namco in Japan.Namco’s NES version of Pac-Man is a straightforward port of the arcade classic, featuring an accurate recreation of the maze and including all the arcade version’s comedy cut-scenes.The Tower of Druaga was only released on the Famicom in Japan, and didn’t get a Western release on the NES.The game is an action RPG maze game, where the player controls…
Eric Kripke is doing what he does best: telling us we can pick and choose with shows within The Boys universe we watch, despite the increasing connectivity between them all.In an new interview with Variety, the showrunner teased that The Boys season 5 will be peppered with “references to Vought Rising”, the 1950s-set series that’ll center on The Boys baddies Stormfront (Aya Cash) and Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles). So much so, in fact, that it’ll explicitly introduce another character due to appear in the prequel – though he insists the fifth and final season won’t wind up being “mandatory viewing”.”The…
As noted in this week’s Maw, the burgeoning genre of survival shooter which involve a lot of crouch-walking in fields got a new addition on Tuesday. Road to Vostok, a single player Tarkov-ish field-croucher solo developed by an ex-Finnish army officer arrived in early access following some popular demos. According to that former armyman, the early returns on its release have already helped set up the cash reserves its development will need for “years to come”.
The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 price is now official. The new flagship AMD CPU that takes its already powerful, 16-core monster, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D, and adds a second 3D V-Cache die will set you back a cool $899, making it AMD’s most expensive AM5 gaming CPU to date. This hefty price tag means the 9950X3D2 is $200 more expensive than the 9950X3D, despite AMD admitting during its 9950X3D announcement video that it likely won’t be much faster than that chip in games. Instead, the 9950X3D and 9850X3D are set to remain the two best gaming CPU choices for most.…
The owner of the James Bond 007 IP has opposed an attempt to register a trademark for video game parody character James Pond.The original James Pond: Underwater Agent was released in 1990, and was followed by the far more popular James Pond II: Codename RoboCod.Although it was followed by other titles – 1993’s James Pond 3: Operation Starfish and mini-game spin-off The Aquatic Games – the James Pond series essentially ended in the mid ’90s, with the only attempt to revive it being a poorly received iOS game in 2011.This has changed in recent years, with the current James Pond…
It’s been over three weeks since Nintendo dropped its last big Pokemon Pokopia update, fixing early-game softlocking and more, but various issues have persisted in the cozy life sim since – some of which developers aim to now tackle in a brand-new patch.If you haven’t spotted the news yet, Pokemon Pokopia version 1.0.3 is out now – and as per the official update details from Nintendo, it’s a chunky one compared to previous patches. It addresses softlocking, from construction projects to more serious halts in story progression, over-rumbly vibrating controllers, and, perhaps most notably, bugs that would cost us our…
As you may be aware if you read myself and Julian’s Samson verdict the other day, the launch version of the gritty minor crim simulator included plenty of bugs – ranging from the harmlessly jany to the debilitatingly playthrough-breaking. The good news is that developers Liquid Swords are on the case, with studio creative director and long-time Just Cause lead Christofer Sundberg having announced that a big patch is due before the week is out.
The former co-founder of Avalanche Studios has told players his new studio’s first game has “unacceptable” game-breaking bugs at launch.Christofer Sundberg – who co-founded Avalanche and was creative director on Just Cause – set up new studio Liquid Swords in 2020 and officially announced it in 2022, saying it was working on “a connected single player action RPG” and “a hard-boiled take on the open-world crime genre”.The result is Samson, an open-world action game which was released on Steam and the Epic Games Store on Wednesday to a mixed reception.The game’s Metacritic score currently stands at 48, while Steam reviews…
Pokemon Champions has launched to mixed reviews and all sorts of controversy from reports of performance issues to the removal of longheld competitive strategies, but arguably the most urgent issue is that it seems to be trapping some players’ Pokemon “in limbo.”Competitive Pokemon VGC player Justin Carris (thanks, Kotaku) flagged the issue on Twitter, warning Pokemon Champions players of “a massive bug with transferring pokemon between Pokemon HOME & Champions.”Carris reports that he was trying to transfer Pokemon from the cloud-based Pokemon Home bank over to the new PvP game Pokemon Champions when he received an error message. The message…
Some months, the Humble Choice lineup is fine. Your socks aren’t blown off, but you’re not going to turn your nose up at free games. Other months have you questioning how they managed to get a certain game in the selection. April’s Humble Choice definitely leans toward the latter. With eight games included in the subscription, you’re effectively getting each title for under $2… and when one of the games is a big blockbuster like Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, it’s quite juicy. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla going for less than the price of a cup of coffee is delightfully absurd. This is…