Remedy Entertainment goes for broke with an intense, daring sequel to its 2010 horror. Here’s our review of Alan Wake 2: It’s been some time since we last visited Bright Falls. In the 13 years since the original Alan Wake, developer Remedy has made repeated attempts at making a sequel, only for those concepts to be abandoned or turned into other games. One concept ultimately became Quantum Break; another became Control. Finally, though, Alan Wake 2 is here. But rather than play it safe and stick to the first game’s formula, Remedy has instead delivered a sequel with several new, daring ideas t ..read more

Hidden Palace has revealed prototype footage of the unreleased game Daredevil: The Man Without Fear for PS2. Daredevil: The Man Without Fear was being developed 5,000 Ft. studios for the Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft Xbox and PC, and was originally scheduled to be released at around the same time as Sony’s Daredevil movie in 2003. But problems with the game’s engine saw it delayed, and eventually the project was cancelled in 2004. Publisher Encore did manage to put out a Game Boy Advance Daredevil game to tie in with the movie’s launch, but the console and PC versions disappeared. Now, the vid ..read more

A Bloomberg report suggests that revenue from Destiny 2 was 45 percent below projections following the Lightfall expansion. Bloomberg has published a report that puts a number on the Bungie layoffs. Anonymous sources have said that 100 people were let go from the company, or roughly eight percent of Bungie’s workforce. The Bloomberg report also suggests that revenue from Destiny 2 was 45 percent below expectations, following the release of the Lightfall expansion at the start of this year. Lightfall has met with a mixed reception: on Metacritic, the PS5 version current has a 69 critic rating ..read more

Atari has purchased the studio Digital Eclipse in a deal worth up to $20 million as part of its “retro-focused growth strategy”. Atari is buying the US developer Digital Eclipse, the studio behind the acclaimed game/documentary hybrids Atari 50: The Anniversary Collection and The Making of Karateka. The deal is worth up to $20 million. The initial payout will consist of $4 million in cash and $2.5 million in shares, while a further earn-out of of up to $13.5 million is on the cards if Digital Eclipse meets certain performance targets over the next ten years. Digital Eclipse was founded in 1992 ..read more

For almost 30 years, Shigeru Miyamoto’s Devil World has remained elusive – but now it’s available for Nintendo Switch Online members. Now counted among the industry’s few celebrity designers, Shigeru Miyamoto’s body of work is easy to list. Most people even tangentially familiar with Nintendo will be able to list most of Miyamoto’s games – in varying capacities, he’s had a hand in everything from the Donkey Kong to the Super Mario Bros series to F-Zero to The Legend Of Zelda to Pikmin and more besides. One title western gamers are less likely to throw out, though, is Devil World – a maze game ..read more

Three decades after its original release, Zombies Ate My Neighbors remains surely the greatest B-movie-themed videogame of all time. The mid-1990s were a great time to be a fan of comically dire, horror-themed B-movies. There was Tim Burton’s charming 1994 biopic Ed Wood, in which Johnny Depp played the titular angora sweater-wearing director of such low-grade fare as Plan 9 From Outer Space, supposedly the worst film ever made. Then there was enthusiastic young TV star and cinema-obsessive Jonathan Ross, who kept British small-screen viewers equally entertained with his fondly-remembered Incr ..read more

Ridge Racer was released in Japanese arcades on 30 October 1993, 30 years ago today. It was nothing short of a revolution. The debut of Ridge Racer was a defining moment in video gaming. Released in Japanese arcades on 30 October 1993, Namco’s racer was the first arcade game to use texture-mapped 3D graphics, and it looked simply leagues ahead of anything else. Earlier games such as Atari’s Hard Drivin’ and Sega’s Virtua Racing had dragged racing games into the world of 3D by using simple, single-coloured polygons. But Namco’s snazzy new System 22 board, introduced worldwide with Ridge Racer ..read more

Third-party controllers are unlikely to work on Xbox consoles from 12 November 2023 as Microsoft cracks down on ‘Unauthorised’ accessories. If you’ve been greeted with an error message when plugging in a third-party controller or accessory recently, there’s likely a good reason for this. Microsoft has reportedly begun cracking down on the use of unauthorised devices on Xbox consoles, with controllers and other bits of third-party tech set to be banned entirely from 12 November 2023. The news comes via Windows Central, which reports that a number of Xbox owners are getting the error 0x82d60002 ..read more

The fan-made Sega Mega Drive/Genesis port of the mighty R-Type has a free playable demo, and it’s available to download right now. Update: The RoboZ's free playable demo for Mega R-Type, a fan-made adaptation of the shoot-’em-up classic for the Sega Mega Drive (or Genesis) is available to download from itch.io now. It features three levels from the final game, including a look at the revised version of the secret stage originally designed by Compile for R-Type's port on the Sega Master System. You can play Mega R-Type via a Mega Drive emulator on your computer, or if you have a flash cartridge ..read more