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Gaming  "It Would Have Been Impossible To Make This Game At Nintendo" - Star Fox & F-Zero Artist Takaya Imamura Talks Omega 6

Takaya Imamura is a figure who is probably best known to video game fans for his work on classic Nintendo games. During his epic 32-year run at the legendary Kyoto-based video game company, he was involved with designing iconic characters for games like Star Fox, F-Zero, and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, and later went on to direct a small number of popular 3DS titles like Steel Diver, Steel Diver: Sub Wars, and Tank Troopers. But, in 2022, he announced that he was making the difficult decision to leave the company that gave him his start to go independent, and eventually began working on a sci-fi ADV named Omega 6: The Triangle Stars for Nintendo Switch and PC. This game is already out in Japan as we speak and is set to be...
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Gaming  "Our Goal Was To Preserve The Original Pixel Art" - X-Out Resurfaced Dev On Remaking The Amiga Classic

This month brought the surprise announcement that a new remake of the underwater shmup X-Out is on the way this Winter for Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PS5, and PC. This aims to give players a brand new way to experience the classic title, which originally debuted on the Commodore 64 back in 1989 and also later appeared on the Commodore Amiga, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and Atari ST. Kritzelkratz 3000, the German studio behind the recent console and PC ports of Rainbow Cotton, is responsible for developing the project, which is entitled X-Out Resurfaced, while ININ Games is attached to publish. Ziggurat Interactive, meanwhile, also has its hands in the project, being the current owner of the rights to the Rainbow Arts original and one of the...
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News  GTA III's "Interactive Litter" Didn't Make It Into San Andreas, But Did Live On In Another Rockstar Game

GTA III might be getting on a bit now, but it still has some impressive immersive tricks – one of which is the presence of litter, which blows around the city streets in a realistic manner. Former DMA Design and Rockstar staffer Obbe Vermeij is the man we have to thank for this little feature – but has admits on Twitter that not everyone on the team was thrilled with it (thanks, Games Radar). "The streets of gta3 looked too clean so I added litter," he says on Twitter. "It is a single rectangle that occasionally moves with the wind. It can also be dragged along by passing cars. The artists created 4 textures for it. 2 newspapers and 2 leaves." Vermeij explains how the litter works, before adding that "not everyone on the team liked...
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News  PS1 Net Yaroze And Pico-8 Games Are Coming To Antstream

Antstream has just held its Antstream Arcade Connect broadcast for August 2024, and as well as confirming that the retro game streaming service is coming to PlayStation, it was revealed that PS1 Net Yaroze games will soon be available on the platform. A PS1 development kit released in 1996, Net Yaroze encouraged bedroom coders to try their hand at creating titles for Sony's 32-bit system – many of which have become of intense historical interest since their release. It was also revealed that PICO-8 games are making their way to Anstream, with Puzzles of the Paladin and Manbomber already confirmed for the service. A "fantasy" system created by Lexaloffle Games, PICO-8 is already home to many cool indie titles, all of which have the...
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Retro  PS1 Classics Legacy Of Kain: Blood Omen And Soul Reaver Come To Evercade

PS1 classics Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain and Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver are coming to Blaze's Evercade family of systems in a new double-pack release. Released in 1996, Blood Omen was developed by Silicon Knights, the same studio that would also create Eternal Darkness for Nintendo. A top-down 2D title with CGI characters, it places you in the role of Kain, a murdered nobleman who is resurrected as a vampire in order to gain revenge over his killers. Released in 1999 and set 1500 years after Blood Omen, the Amy Hennig-directed Soul Reaver sees one of Kain's lieutenants, Raziel, assume the role of protagonist. It was released on the PS1 and PC and would be ported to Dreamcast in 2000. Publisher Crystal Dynamics handled development...
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News  Sierra's Ken Williams Is As Confused As You About Colossal Cave's Tiny Box

Ken and Roberta Williams' Colossal Cave was recently reimagined for a new generation, and Limited Run Games has duly stepped in to create a physical version of the game. The issue here is that the end result is a little less "colossal" than people were expecting. The game is now arriving in the hands of those who pre-ordered it, and many are slightly taken aback by the fact that it ships in such a tiny box – and not a huge one, as was tradition back in the days of '80s and '90s PC gaming. Even Ken Williams himself is surprised at the diminutive size of the packaging: However, Williams adds that it has grown on him, and overall, the product represents amazing value, irrespective of its size. Have you received your copy of...
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Steam  Valve plans to bring SteamOS to other third-party devices

Valve's own operating system "SteamOS", based on a specific Linux distribution called Arch Linux, alongside their own Wine fork titled "Proton", have both opened up the doors for modern and AAA gaming on Linux machines, with their OS being developed specially for their Steam Deck handheld device. Since the release of the Steam Deck and SteamOS, many have wondered if the company could consider releasing their OS for general use as a distributable Linux distro to be installed in other devices and computers outside the Steam Deck. That could all be a reality very soon, as Valve's designed Lawrence Yang has confirmed in an interview with The Verge that they are planning on bringing SteamOS support for other handheld devices in the market...
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Retro  New Premium Magazine To Explore "How Gaming's Past Shaped our Future"

Generations, a new premium magazine from some of the talent behind [lock-on] and Switch Player, hits Kickstarter today, with the goal of celebrating every gaming generation from 1972 to today. The magazine is the work of GameBound, which is a new magazine and premium print publisher that includes the involvement of Paul Murphy (Gamebook Color, Switch Player Magazine) and Andrew J. Dickinson (the former Editor-in-Chief of [lock-on] and current Editor-In-Chief of Debug Magazine). It is being designed in collaboration with DayOne and will feature illustrations from Sean O'Brien. The first issue, which is the Winter 2024 edition, will be 132 pages and will feature a cover story from Alicia Haddick regarding the history of Steel Batallion...
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Steam  The Arcade Bullet Hell 'Castle Of Shikigami III' Could Be Getting A Steam Port

Alfa System's 2005 arcade bullet hell Castle of Shikigami III could be coming to Steam later this year, thanks to a new crowdfunding campaign that launched at the end of last month in Japan on the website Camp-fire.jp. Castle of Shikigami III originally debuted in the arcades back in the mid-2000s and was later ported to PC, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii, with the Wii release coming to North America via Aksys Games in 2008. Now the company Cosmo Machia (who was also recently behind the Triggerheart Exelica rerelease) is planning to bring it to Steam and is aiming to release it in December 2024, should it hit its goal. The company wants ¥3,000,000 to make the project a reality and is currently on ¥2,058,100 as of the time of writing...
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News  Argonaut's Dreamcast Vehicle Shooter 'Red Dog' Is Getting A Fan Revival

If you owned a Dreamcast in the early 2000s and loved vehicle-based games, you may have come across Red Dog: Superior Firepower in the past. A collaboration between the Star Fox and Croc developers Argonaut Games and the publisher Sega (note: the game was published in North America under Crave Entertainment), it was one of the early third-party developed for the console outside of Japan and saw players get behind the controls of a large armoured assault vehicle before embarking on missions to blast away aliens, navigate tricky terrain, and escort payloads to their destination. The game was fairly well received upon its original release, getting an 8.2 from IGNDC and an 89 from the magazine Game Fan, and seems to have generated a bit...
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News  Namco's 1993 Fighting Game 'Knuckle Heads' Is Coming To Switch & PS4

This week's Arcade Archives release has been announced as Namco's 1993 fighting game Knuckle Heads (thanks @ohfivepro/Famitsu). The game will be released on August 15th across PS4 and Nintendo Switch, in Japan, with versions expected to launch shortly after on certain international storefronts. Worth highlighting before we continue is that we've recently been made aware that some of these games seem to be skipping PS4 in the UK, and PS4 and Nintendo Switch in some European countries. We're currently trying to find out why that is, but sadly don't have an answer at this time. We'll obviously update you should we hear anything. But for now, we'll go ahead and push on with some context about this upcoming release. Originally entering...
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Retro  Man Sets Record For Most Gaming Consoles Connected To A Single TV

You might think you have some pretty sweet cable management skills, but Ibrahim Al-Nasser no doubt has you beat. The Saudi Arabian gamer recently claimed the Guinness World Record for most game consoles connected to a single TV, with 444 of them hooked up to the same HD-enabled TV. The collection includes consoles ranging from the Magnavox Odyssey to the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis, Sega Dreamcast, Neo Geo AES, Sony PlayStation, Nintendo 64, as well as many many others. He even seems to have a ton of the accessories too, including the N64DD, Famicom Disk System, 32X, the Dreamcast Karaoke unit, and the SNES Satellaview, all of which are plugged into their respective consoles. The collection is so big that it spans the whole of a room...
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News  Visions of Mana is a warm, nostalgic, joyful delight

Visions of Mana is, almost immediately after you start playing, like a warm blanket to wrap yourself up in. I can already see some elements complaining that it lacks "innovation" or the intricate action combat systems that we've become accustomed to in JRPGs. But not every game needs to be that kind of boundary-pushing, intellectually or mechanically challenging experience. Sometimes the warm blanket is enough. And already I can tell that Visions of Mana is more than enough. As I can't go into spoilers, and the slice of the game I've been able to preview is limited, I have no idea if things change later on down the track, but the opening chapter is so very warmly nostalgic to a golden era of JRPGs. You start out with a duo of heroes...
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Hacking  New FATXplorer tool "Xbox 360 HDD Maker" modifies firmware on HDDs to make them Xbox 360 compatible

The Xbox 360 is long gone, but the homebrew and hacking scene of a console is always searching for ways to revitalize and keep older consoles alive, and such is the case for a newly developed tool for the Xbox 360 that aims to make hard-drives compatible with the console. The original OEM hard drives for the 360 are getting scarce and more rare as time goes on, and it's only a matter of time before the vast majority of the original hard drives manufactured for the system begin to fail in one way or another given the usual HDD lifespan. One such existing tool, HDDHackr, managed to successfully make third party hard drives compatible with the Xbox 360. However, this tool hasn't seen updates in more than a decade, making it fairly...
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News  Here’s the release date for the worldwide PC launch of Date A Live: Ren Dystopia

Four years after its Japanese PlayStation 4 launch, Date A Live: Ren Dystopia is set to launch worldwide via Steam soon. (Japan will also be getting the Steam version.) Last month a September release window was confirmed, and today's news pins down one early September day for its launch. The game features an original story set in the Date A Live universe. Familiar faces are common, but one new girl is put into the spotlight: Ren. This version of the game will have Japanese audio with a choice of English, Japanese, and Traditional Chinese subtitles. Date A Live: Ren Dystopia begins thirty years after the spacequakes started. Spacequakes are calamities triggered by enigmatic Spirits. One fateful day, ordinary student Shido Itsuka meets a...
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Translation  Dreamcast Brawler Capcom Vs. SNK Pro Is Getting An English Translation

Update [Tue 27th Aug, 2024 11:30 BST]: The patch is now live. You can grab it here. There's been a lot of chatter surrounding the Capcom vs. SNK crossover series of late, driven mainly by the fact that SNK characters are appearing in Street Fighter 6, so we're pleased to add to that noise by reporting that an English translation patch for the Japan-only Dreamcast release of Capcom vs. SNK Pro is in the works. Created by @JustinGibbins, the patch is pretty much finished, with just some additional testing to take place before release. "The English Translation Hack for CvS Pro is feature complete," says Gibbins. "All English is in there, even for new content, and I did the Online mode as well. I also fixed up move names, icons, etc...
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News  'DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO' gets Android saga character trailer

DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO launches in a few months' time and Bandai Namco is slowly showcasing its character roster. In a new trailer aired today, characters from the Android and Cell arcs were highlighted: DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO launches on October 11 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
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News  RHDO Changes Ownership, Rebrands As RomHack Plaza

Recently, we reported on the sad news that ROMHacking.net was closing down, leading many people to ponder where such hacks and mods would be found online in the future. We've got a bit of good news today, however, as it has been announced that the ROM hack site RHDO has changed ownership and has rebranded as RomHack Plaza, promising "a platform free of gatekeepers and mod intervention." BenjaminCM, also known as Kando on Twitter, has issued this statement: Spike, the outgoing owner, had this to say about the handover:
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News  Star Fox Will Take Advantage Of The New Super FX 3 Chip, Will Feature Rumble Support

There was a pretty huge development in the world of SNES games recently, with the announcement that one of the people behind the console's Doom port,@RandalLinden, is involved with Limited Run's new conversation of the game, which will offer better performance, improved controls and force feedback rumble support – the latter coming via a special controller. All of this is made possible by Linden's Super FX 3 chip, an evolution of the Super FX hardware created by British company Argonaut back in the '90s. As you might imagine, many people have been asking if other games will be able to (unofficially) benefit from this chip, and we've already had the first confirmation – look out for a patch which can be used with flash carts like the...
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News  New Book Dives Into The History Of Classic '80s Arcade Games

Update [Fri 16th Aug, 2024 16:10 BST]: The Kickstarter for Arcade Decades - 80s Edition is now live. It's got a funding target of £25,000, with early bird pricing starting at £30. Signed copies are available for £45. Numskull Designs has announced that it is publishing a new book which aims to offer "an exhilarating retrospective of 100 iconic games from the halcyon days of the 1980s arcade scene." Arcade Decades - 80s Edition is penned by YouTuber Kim Justice and will "delve into the origin stories of the trailblazing companies that ignited a gaming revolution and read about some of the brilliant, creative minds who brought these amazing games to life." Here's some more PR: "I've been waiting 18 months to say this fully...
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