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News  "DOOM+DOOM II" new enhanced re-release adds all the officially released map packs and a brand new episode

QuakeCon kickstarted its 2024 outing on August 8th to great reception, and to start off the event with a bang, Bethesda announced a brand new re-release of Doom and Doom II was announced alongside a brand new trailer. Without any notice, id Software and Nightdive Studios combined forces and brought forth this new re-release, but this new release of the classic FPS that defined the genre is not any re-release, but it adds a lot of previously unavailable content alongside brand new content as well go to with the occasion, in what the trailer deems "the definitive experience", and without a doubt, this re-release does offer a definitive experience to this classic duo. Some of the features that this enhanced release brings are: All of...
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News  Join a paranormal investigator on a terrifying investigation when The Occultist launches for PC and consoles in 2025

When the upcoming first-person horror game The Occultist was announced, I couldn't stop thinking about how the protagonist looks like a cross between Johnny Bananas and John Krasinski. Apparently, I watch way too much of The Challenge and think way too much about the fanservice casting of Reed Richards. But what actually makes The Occultist stand out is its story. Alan heads to an abandoned island where his father grew up to investigate his disappearance. He's the only living soul on the island… or is he? The Occultist will be released for PC, PlayStation, and Xbox in 2025. For decades, Alan Rebels has heard his father mentioning the island of GodStone. Regardless, his knowledge ends at the fact his father was born and spent his...
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News  Here's Your First Look At Gameplay For Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 Zombies

Call of Duty may be super well-known for its multiplayer component, but whenever a Treyarch-developed entry comes around, Zombies mode is another hot topic amongst the community. This year, for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, the team is hailing new map 'Terminus' as a return to round-based Zombies - and here's our first in-game look at the mode. Up above is some hot-off-the-press footage of Black Ops 6 Zombies for you to all enjoy. The team's Zombies gameplay reveal showcases the new map, characters, movement mechanics and more - alongside some old-favorite features returning; like perk soda machines and 'GobbleGum' abilities. What's more - it sounds like the team is going to town on the quality of life changes being made for Zombies...
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Retro  Console Wars The Card Game Aims To Turn Fan Toxicity Into Something Positive

A new card game has just been announced, which aims to poke fun at the topic of console wars while turning fan toxicity into something fun and positive that everyone can appreciate. Console Wars The Card Game, as the project is called, is being developed by the gaming outlet XboxEra and is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter with the initial goal set at £20,000 (£15,727 has been raised so far, as of writing). It sees multiple players competing against each other, as different fictional console manufacturers, with players having to collect various video game franchises (which are given legally-distinct titles like Mood, Unsurveyed, Hola, and Cattlefield), build their fanbase, brave the volatile industry, and get ahead of the...
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Homebrew  Fans Are Resurrecting Nintendo's Satellaview Service & They Need Your SNES Games

If you've been reading GameParadise for a while, you may have realized by now that we're pretty fascinated by Nintendo's Japan-exclusive Satellaview service, which famously saw the popular video game company partner with the broadcaster St. GIGA to transmit games directly to people's living rooms via satellite in the mid-to-late 90s. But what you might now know (as we've only just heard about it ourselves) is that a determined group of individuals are resurrecting the service, under the name Satellaview+, and that they are now looking for homebrew SNES games to join their upcoming lists of broadcasts. According to @HowlingFoxRouko, a member of the team, the broadcasts are done "via a local client that is made by the team's organizer."...
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Hardware  We're Getting A "Classic Edition" Of The PC-88, Japan's Iconic '80s Computer

Dempa Micomsoft has announced more details on the upcoming miniaturized reproduction of the PC-8801 mkII SR, which was revealed earlier this year in May at the ALL ABOUT Microcomputer BASIC Magazine III event. The information comes courtesy of the Japanese publication Game Watch and includes some basic specs, a price, and a rough release window. As detailed in the announcement, the Pasocom PC-8801 mk IISR will be the third in a series of retro reissues, which originally started under HAL Laboratory and also includes the PasocomMini MZ-80C, a reproduction of Sharp's MZ-80C, and the PasocomMini PC-8001, a reproduction of NEC's PC-8001. The body is being manufactured by the model kit company, AOSHIMA Cultural Teaching Materials Co...
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Hacking  Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy is a new RCE exploit that can hack several consoles, including the Xbox 360

Through the years those following the hacking scene have seen plenty of games exploited in order to run code and help softmod game consoles. Cubic Ninja's QR code reader was exploited to allow for the Homebrew Launcher to be installed on the Nintendo 3DS, and an edited save file of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell for the original Xbox could execute a payload that would softmod the system. A member of the Xbox scene by the name of Grimdoomer wanted to test their skill, and see if they could discover a new exploit for older consoles. Choosing to see what potential exploits could be done in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 for Xbox, Grimdoomer has managed to create and release an RCE exploit that can hack not just one console, but also the PlayStation...
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Cinema  Borderlands Described As 'Worst Movie Of The Year' By Harshest Critics

With the long-awaited Borderlands movie arriving in cinemas later this week, a few first impressions have begun hitting the web and social media over the past few hours, and unfortunately the majority of them appear to be negative. The most critical of these impressions are describing the film as a "disaster" and even the "worst movie of the year", with reviewers taking to social media to share their early thoughts ahead of the full review embargo lifting on Thursday: Now, we should reiterate that the full review embargo for Borderlands doesn't lift until Thursday, so we're bound to see more positive impressions show up as well, but this early reaction suggests the film will be far from a critical darling. That's not to say...
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News  The Stamper Brothers' Latest Venture Is Their "Best Work To Date"

Tim and Chris Stamper are famous as the founders of both Ultimate Play The Game and Rare, two of the most respected British developers of the past few decades. Since selling Rare to Microsoft over twenty years ago, the Stampers have kept a relatively low profile, with the most notable venture being the establishment of FortuneFish, a studio which is run by Tim's son Joe. However, a few years back, the siblings launched a new project – and it's one that we're ashamed to say completely passed us by until now. Back in 2020, it was announced that the Stampers had joined the John Jarrold Literary Agency in order to launch a new project, known as One Step Left. According to the press release, this venture will encompass "novels, games and...
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News  Get into the groove with a new demo and trailer for musical platformer Symphonia

Pixel-precision platformer Symphonia was originally set to launch in early 2024, but that time has since come and gone. Today, Sunny Peak and Headup Games announced a new release window for Symphonia, confirmed launch platforms, dropped a PC demo, and revealed a new trailer. The demo gives you an introduction to the game and introduces some early levels. Symphonia is a realm where music is a source of life and energy. Unfortunately, the founders and their orchestra have disappeared, leaving Symphonia's inhabitants divided. The world falls into silence. But a mysterious, plucky violinist named Philemon was brought back to life and sets off to gather a new orchestra and return the world to a musical and lively state. Your violin and bow...
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News  Head to medieval Wales in Tales from the Mabinogion, launching for PC in 2025

What do you get when you combine an Assassin's Creed designer and a bestselling author known for his Warhammer storytelling? An emotional indie walking simulator, of course! The combination seems to be cooking up something special in Tales from the Mabinogion: it is a narrative-rich, third-person adventure game that travels through Welsh folklore using only the Welsh language. It is the first full video game adaptation of The Mabinogion, the earliest Welsh prose stories. Today's game reveal also came complete with a trailer. Become King Pryderi, trying to navigate a wilderness shrouded in a deadly, cursed fog. The mystery behind the cataclysm that left the Kingdom of Dyfed in shambles must be unravelled, and who better than you? The...
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News  As GameStop Erases Game Informer From History, Fans Are Preserving Its Legacy Online

Last week gave us the not-at-all-pleasant news that Game Informer – a magazine that has been running for 33 years – has been shuttered by its parent company, GameStop. The news was broken with a rather lifeless statement on social media, which was followed up by a message from the magazine's freshly laid-off staff – which was then deleted, along with the Twitter account. All of the content which was published on Game Informer has also been nuked, with the magazine's website now displaying the aforementioned, boardroom-created message. While GameStop has sadly shown scant regard for the history of this esteemed publication, fans are taking it into their own hands to properly celebrate and preserve it. Retromags.com – a site which...
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Retro  Sick Of Waiting For A New Landstalker? Then Build Your Own With This Tool

Climax Entertainment's Landstalker is one of the best action adventures on the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive, but remarkably, we never got a true sequel to the game – although it did get multiple 'spiritual successors', including Alundra, Dark Savior and Lady Stalker. If you're tired of waiting for a new entry in the Landstalker series, then you might be interested to learn that a fan-made creation tool is currently in development that allows users to build their own version of the game. The latest version of Landstalker Editor – 0.3.4 – has just been released, and now includes things like room map editing, sprite editing, entity property editing, blockset editing and an enhanced room editor. As you can see from the video, it's shaping...
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Emulation  This RetroArch Audio Filter Makes Your Games Sound Crappy, Just Like You Remember Them

If you're keen on retro emulation, then you'll almost certainly have come across screen filters which add things like scanlines, bloom and screen distortion to ensure your classic games look every how you remember them, back when you played on a tiny portable CRT TV set in your bedroom. There are countless filters to choose from now, allowing gamers to get exactly the right look – but what about audio? It goes without saying that the television sets in the '80s and '90s didn't offer the best aural experience; you'd often be saddled with low-quality mono sound. We now have a new audio filter which allows you to return to those good old days. Developed by Retro Crisis, RF Mono can be applied to games played via RetroArch, and is...
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Mod  Banjo Kazooie Meets Zelda: Wind Waker In This Amazing N64 Mod

This week, the N64 modder KurkoMods released an amazing new Banjo Kazooie mod called Banjo Kazooie: Bear Waker Deluxe, which sees Rare's bird & bear visiting the world of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. The mod is an update of an earlier hack from 2019, which was titled Bear Waker, and tasks players with guiding Banjo around Outset Island, collecting 21 Jiggies, 125 notes, 20 Mumbo tokens, and 12 honeycomb pieces. There are also plenty of cool Easter Eggs to find, including new Game Boy and GameCube-related items and gags about the duo's inactivity of late, with those who are members of Kurko Mods YouTube and Patreon channel, getting a special "Golden Jiggy" version of the mod featuring two additional secrets that aren't available...
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News  Don't Hold Your Breath For A Volgarr The Viking II Dreamcast Port

One of the most unexpected Sega Dreamcast ports of recent years was Crazy Viking Studios' Volgarr The Viking. Originally developed for the PC, the brutal action-platformer made its debut on the Sega console back in 2015, thanks to the incredible efforts of a software engineer named Marc Hall, who managed to obtain permission from the studio to release his Dreamcast port online for free. From there, it eventually went on to generate a lot of enthusiastic responses online from members of the Dreamcast community which has left some wondering whether Volgarr's recently released sequel Volgarr the Viking II might eventually get the same treatment in the near future. Last month, we were given the opportunity to chat with Crazy Viking...
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News  Xbox Game Pass lineup for August 2024 revealed

Microsoft has announced which games fans can expect to see added to Xbox Game Pass this month. Joining the Game Pass catalog in the month of August will be a set of three games, with more set to arrive later. Creatures of Ava is an indie game where you need to explore the world in order to tame and rescue fantasy creatures, with a release date of August 7th. On the following day, Crash Bandicoot N Sane Trilogy will arrive on the service, bringing a remaster of the first three Crash titles. Mafia: Definitive Edition will be playable for Game Pass users on August 13th. With the addition of these games, four others will be leaving Xbox Game Pass, on August 15th. These games are: Offworld Trading Company The Texas Chain Saw Massacre...
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Hacking  Remote-code exploit discovered in Pokémon Ultra Sun to allow payload injection for speedrunning

Wack0 (also known as "Slipstream") identified a "pialease nerf" stack buffer overflow for the game "Pokémon Ultra Sun," which can allow a payload to be executed, for the ability to perform speedrunning tasks or installing custom firmware if this is the case. The exploit appears to only work correctly with "Ultra Sun" at the time of writing with version 2.2.0; however, it is unclear whether older versions will work or if Ultra Moon might be supported. To follow the steps in the guide, you will need both a first and secondary 3DS console with the same game installed, and both must have the same initial versions; otherwise, the exploit will not work. During this time, the exploit will run in the background on your second 3DS, and you must...
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News  Battle for game studio supremacy when Neptunia Game Maker R:Evolution launches for Xbox this October

Action RPG game Neptunia Game Maker R:Evolution first launched in the West last May, but only for PlayStation and Nintendo Switch. Today, it was revealed that the game will also be getting an Xbox launch – both physically and digitally! This game is all about building a game studio to take down your rivals.. You'll have to do a lot of work to become the biggest studio of the year! The game takes place in a world of powerful, rival Game Makers. Game Makers have started a battle for supremacy to acquire Shares. Older Nep (as someone rapidly approaching 40, ouch) enters the fray, fighting for the survival of Gamindustri. A game studio needs strong developers, cutting-edge games, and market expansion to find success at the top. Make wise...
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News  Cozy post-apocalyptic exploration game Caravan SandWitch launches this September

Caravan SandWitch, a cozy semi-open adventure game, was revealed to the world in late May. Today, a September release window was announced for PC, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. (I love it when games are announced mere months before launch!) The captivating title is set in a Provence-like sci-fi world and is developed by a remote studio based in Provence, so the inspiration for the locations is based on first-hand knowledge. The planet has gone from green to a complete desert thanks to human activities and over-exploitation. The game's narrative heart is a mystery: your sister is missing! With each step you take, the truth becomes clearer. Traverse a rich landscape in your van, which is customizable. Meet and interact with...
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