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’90s action horror game Undeadline is the quintessential Halloween shmup: Brains, beauty, blood, and a nice thick slice of cheese

Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. Developer: T & E Soft Released: 1989-1991 Platforms: MSX2, X68000, Mega Drive (Image credit: Mobygames, T&ESoft) It’s spooky season, and what better Continue Reading

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Twitch silently stopped sign ups from both Israel and Palestine for over a year, gets caught out, says it was all ‘to prevent uploads of graphic material’

The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine, which has now spread into Lebanon and threatens to further destabilise the Middle East, has dominated global news coverage since the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel. Recently, Twitch banned the popular user Asmongold following a racist anti-Palestinian rant, which thanks to his Continue Reading

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Silent Hill 2 remake patch improves performance but sadly stops James teleporting through peepholes and falling into the void

What’s your favourite part of Silent Hill 2? Mine has to be James Sunderland’s various superpowers: Teleportation, phasing through walls, psychosexual yearning, all the abilities he got after he was bitten by a radioactive widower. They’re what make him such a potent horror game protagonist but, alas, apparently the first Continue Reading

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Valve says its ‘not really fair to your customers’ to create yearly iterations of something like the Steam Deck, instead it’s waiting ‘for a generational leap in compute without sacrificing battery life’

Valve Deck duo, Lawrence Yang and Yazan Aldehayyat, have been doing the press rounds recently as Australia is finally getting itself a proper Steam Deck release in that territory. As part of that, Yang and Aldehayyat have had to field the now-standard questions about a potential Steam Deck 2. Unsurprisingly, Continue Reading

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Logitech G Pro 2 Lightspeed Review

Logitech has a somewhat confusing lineup right now, with the G Pro 2 Lightspeed intended to replace the old Pro and the X Superlight 2 Dex intended to go alongside the standard Superlight 2. They are familiar designs to anyone accustomed to Logitech, and this is both the biggest selling Continue Reading

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‘Please try not to binge it’: Vampire Survivors finally releases a Castlevania DLC with 20 new characters, 40 new weapons, and ‘a monstrously large stage’

It’s no secret that Vampire Survivors takes a hell of a lot of inspiration from Castlevania. In its early days, players even accused the developer, Luca Galante, of ripping off certain Castlevania sprites, which Galante later confirmed were actually from asset packs (even if they were almost like a mirror Continue Reading