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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
No surprise here — Electornic Arts is giving the middle finger to gamers and preservationists in unison as Rocket Arena, a game that was delisted back in November, is getting its server shut down. The 2020 3v3 shooter is, of course, online-only, meaning once servers shut down, the game is unavailable to play in any capacity.…
Stellar Blade is among the line of Sony’s anticipated first-party release schedule, with a demo almost a certainty as these sorts of features are becoming more standard with the ninth generation of console. However, it seems whoever is in charge of the storefront accidentally launched the Stellar Blade demo ahead of schedule, leading to people clambering to access it before it was inevitably taken down.…
After Nintendo strong-armed Yuzu into submission, requiring them pay $2.5 million and shutter both Yuzu and Citra, DraStic, a once premium Nintendo DS emulator, has changed its model. Originally found on the Android Play Store priced at $4.99, this 1M+ downloaded emulator with strong reception is now free.
As spotted by GamingOnLinux, DraStic is now free largely due to the unsafe implications the Yuzu case has on the state of emulators.…
Nintendo has revealed three new Game Boy (and GB Color) games being added to Switch Online right on the heels of killing Yuzu and Citra. Of course, as we all know, Switch Online is just its paid service to be able to play a fraction of its library through the very thing that the Big N wiggles their finger at — emulation.…
Just as expected, Warner Bros. Discovery is pulling every game published and developed by Adult Swim Games in a move that we can only describe as wildly anti-preservation. The writing has been on the wall since Owen Deery revealed ASG’s intentions to pull his game from Steam despite positive reception, so we knew it would only be a matter of time.…
Another Nintendo emulator is fading into the ether as its core developer — Davide Berra — seeks to prioritize his family over the development of the Pizza Emulators. The emulator was known for being on Android available via the Google Play Store. Since he’s not working on the project any more, he has yanked it from the storefront, likely to never be seen again.…