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Welcome all to another edition of The 8 Ball! This week I’m here to talk about retro consoles, specifically anything older than PS4/PST and Xbox One/Xbox Series Letter. This is just my own ranking of these consoles, I don’t have a ton of history with really old consoles, about the oldest thing I’ve touched was a NES, so no Atari stuff. Also, no handheld stuff, since then it’d be about 6 Nintendo consoles, the Game Gear and the Turbo Express. So, let’s begin: #8: Original Xbox ...

Hit farming simulator game Stardew Valley is known to be as relaxing as it is addictive. What better game to get a soundtrack cover designed to lull you to

Dragon Quest is a name that's synonymous with Japanese role-playing games. Not only did it define the sub-genre 35 years ago, Dragon Quest also brought western tabletop RPG themes to Japan. The initia

As we make our way closer to the 100th episode of the Stevetendo show, there have been plenty of memories along the way. Who could forget how much Soda Popinski got inside my head in Punch-Out!!? Who doesn’t remember how much of a challenge the fighters of Super Punch-Out!! were? One of the better memories was getting to play Final Fantasy 3 for the first time as well as celebrating the anniversaries of Super Mario, Legend of Zelda and the Shacknews site. That being said, strap in for some Su...

12 More Of The Strangest Foods In Gaming Share I’ve had a lot of strange food (like the earlier mentioned Resident Evil 7 Brain Cake from the Capcom Cafe), seen weirder ones that I was too scared to taste like a boiled ant dumpling soup and scorpions climb snowberg. A few years back, I wrote about some of the strangest foods in JRPGs. Now, I’m revisiting this list with many of the selections taken from suggestions by Kotaku readers. This article has been updated and retimed since its origi...

free, easy, and Game Review by Myles Gibbs, May 10th 2021 PC Description: Play as Aldo, wielder of the legendary Ogre Rancorem, in this time-travelling gacha adventure. Executed in the style of classic JRPGs, Another Eden is the latest offering from members of the team that gave us Chrono Trigger. It has a high pedigree and some great quality-of-life features, but is it a loving tribute to those original Squaresoft titles, or just a half-baked shadow? Review: Description: Play as Aldo...

Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games , our monthly gaming column. 2021 continues to move slowly for the worlds biggest entertainment industry and while we did ask Square Enix for a copy of new looter-shooter Outriders , they blanked us. So instead we are picking up a style of game Square is better known for – Octopath Traveler , originally a Nintendo Switch exclusive now on PC. The release of Final Fantasy VII in 1997 was a bit of a watershed moment for 80s kids...

1 There are so many songs from the 16-bit era that evoke nostalgic flashbacks to my first experiences playing games. Those tracks weren’t just catchy tunes, but were a big part of what made many classic games so special. In a time when memory limited what games could do, music, working cohesively with the graphics and story, could weave together a cinematic narrative that conveyed a whole lot of emotion. Advertisement Which brings me to Izuho “IPPO” Numata, the ex-Sega composer behind som...

  [This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Gamasutra and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press.] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE London, Canada – April 28, 2021 – Tiny Titan Studios announces the release of their Ember Knights Combat Demo, available on PC. Ember Knights is a co-op hack and slash rogue-lite inspired by epic rogue-lites like Hades and Dead Cells with the multiplayer fun of Castle Crashers in the style of classic Nintendo like The Legend of...

‘Chrono Trigger’ and Coping with Pandemic Trauma through Video Games Coping with the COVID-19 shutdown via a video game, where I have control over the apocalyptic outcome, was what I needed. Chrono Trigger delivered. Chrono Trigger Square 1995 Video games have become a way to both escape and confront the traumatic experience created by the COVID-19 Pandemic. Studies have shown that video games can help players cope with traumatic events. By playing the 1995 video game Chrono Trigger durin...