After developing a Halo 2 map in 2007, independent game developer Certain Affinity got to work developing Age of Booty, an original Xbox 360-era real-time strategy game featuring what else but pirates, factions, and foes. Unfortunately, it seems that will soon come to an end as the only legal way to purchase this game — that being the Microsoft Store — is pulling the plug.…
Month: March 2024
Nintendo May Or May Not Have DMCA’d Yuzu Fork, Suyu
Nintendo’s win against Yuzu has either fostered an aggressive fanbase hellbent on making emulation a chore with modern consoles or a lot more brazen to hit even projects that are openly non-profit. Obviously, we’re talking Suyu, the fork of the emulator that was sued into oblivion by Nintendo, leading to a whirlwind of other emulators rushing in a panic to get its ducks in a row.…
Nintendo Seemingly Kills Pokemon Fan Game Repository For No Reason
Established in 2014, Relic Castle is a fan site that has grown immensely since its launch, boasting a forum and repository of many, and we mean many, fan-made Pokemon games. Now, after nearly a decade of operation, the site owners are throwing in the towel as they’ve recently found a DMCA takedown notice in their inbox.…
Alpha Protocol Is Back… On GOG
In 2019, Obsidian Entertainment’s niche 2010 espionage game, Alpha Protocol, was delisted from Steam out of nowhere and it left plenty of people very confused. That is until the journalists poked around, assuming it the game’s delisting had to do with its soundtrack, which featured Turn Up The Radio by Autograph during the final boss, and that turned out to be the exact reason.…
Say Goodbye To Kemono Heroes, NA, EU Players… For Now
NIS America is delisting and Mad Gear Games’ Kemono Heroes after a meager four years on the Nintendo eShop. Billed as a 4-player hack-and-slash romp, this title faced middling reception, but regardless has only lasted four years on the market. It’s disappointing as this pixel art stylized game never got a physical release so come next month, this game will be unavailable to the people who haven’t picked it up already.…
Surprise, Surprise, Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection Launch Fails Over Server Issues
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before — a pseudo-preservation effort by a third-party developer botches one of the most important aspects of the game, multiplayer, thanks to server issues, glitches, stuttering, and other problems that make the game one to wait on. This is the unfortunate side of Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection, a collection of the first two widely regarded war-centered third-person shooters complete with all DLC and additions.…
Mario Vs. Donkey Kong Retro Review
The Game Boy Advance released in 2001 and like its predecessor, the Game Boy, it was a really popular handheld video game player. It’s definitive form is probably the GBA SP because of the front-light that it used (backlight in later models). There were probably 20 or 30 games on the GBA that I’d say are must-plays, which is a high amount of good games for any console, and the GBA excelled in quality software.…
Monster Hunter Stories Remaster Dated
Capcom has shared the release date for the remaster of its 3DS classic, Monster Hunter Stories, with the game dated for a mid-June release — June 14, to be specific. The enhanced edition isn’t heading to current-gen hardware and is skipping the Xbox, focusing only on the PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PC. It’s always good to see remaster news as while it’s not a sub for proper preservation — after all, you still have to touch the code to make it more palpable for the modern audience — it’s still a way to introduce those who haven’t seen played the game.…
Trailer For Canceled Multiplayer Spider-Man Game From Insomniac Leaked
A trailer from the canceled multiplayer Spider-Man project has leaked online following December’s cyber attack that rocked Insomniac Games, with new info continuing to trickle out to this day. We now know this canned project would see players able to team up to duke it out with gang members terrorizing the Big Apple and face off against iconic foes, with Venom a focal point it seems.…
MultiVersus Returns Amid Adult Swim Games Delistings
In perhaps some of the worst possible timing, Warner Bros. Discovery’s subsidiary, Warner Bros. Games, has revealed their Smash Bros.-esque fighter, MultiVersus, is returning in late May. Of course, the gaming side of WBD isn’t in the best light right now what with their decision to dismantle Adult Swim Games and plans to delist a bunch of ASG’s library and forcing devs to republish their games without the studio’s aid and without the established base that they have accrued.…