Gaming

Toby Fox, the creator of Undertale, is composing some music for the revival of an RPG called Off. You can listen to two tracks and read about Off’s influence on Undertale in an interview on the game’s website, and I’ve included one of the tracks below.

Hairo Satoh has managed to squeeze a Nintendo DS into an original Game Boy that still closely resembles the original hardware. DS games are playable thanks to an added card slot on the bottom, a second screen that pops out the top, and a touchscreen upgrade. Now just give it an 3DS autostereo screen and stubby joystick!

Correction: It was the 3DS, not the DS, that had a stubby joystick.

Atari’s Space Race debuted in 1973 with a limited number of arcade machines featuring a futuristic fiberglass cabinet design.

They’re now hard to come by, so the Retro Collective recreated one from scratch using a crude 3D iPhone scan of an original unit that was refined, 3D-printed, and assembled like a giant retro gaming puzzle with some added electronics.

Epic initially “ran into a few bugs” getting the games live, but now they’ve launched. Read more details in Lauren Feiner’s story.

The game “engaged approximately 1.5 million players during the quarter, down nearly 50% from the company’s expectations,” EA says in a pre-announcement of its preliminary Q3 earnings results. That’s a shame, because the game is pretty good.

“Global Football” — aka the EA Sports FC franchise — also didn’t do as well as EA thought it would.

If you’re a Three Kingdoms old head who picked up Dynasty Warriors: Origins, then check out the Early Works Soundtrack Collection DLC, offered free until January 30th on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC.

It’s a compilation of nearly 200 tracks from the original Dynasty Warriors through Dynasty Warriors 5: Empires, playable within Origins (though, sadly, it apparently can’t be used in battle).

In its 2024 year-in-review post, Epic also says that “36.5% of total Fortnite playtime” happens in games made by creators, and that playtime stats are “buoyed by meaningful growth in game genres that don’t feature combat.”

Epic is fine with that; an Epic exec told us last year that “the worst outcome for us is that everything looks like battle royale.”

Matthew Griffin, who handles marketing and publishing for the Hollow Knight: Silksong, says that the game is “real, progressing and will release,” as spotted by Polygon.

The “full-scale” sequel was announced in 2019, received a release window from Xbox that it missed, and still isn’t out. At this point, I just live in the clown makeup.

Thomas Bulman’s Bull Airs brand has a new collection of sneakers and clothing inspired by classic consoles including the NES, the Sega Genesis, and the original Sony PlayStation, as spotted by Retro Dodo.

The standout piece is definitely the $250 Power Shoes leather jacket featuring a detailed illustration of the Power Glove on the back and a set of non-functional controls on the right sleeve.

Nvidia’s upcoming RTX 5090 launch on January 30th might be met with limited stock, according to some system builders and retailers. PowerGPU is warning that the RTX 5090 will have poor availability, and others are warning that some cards might not arrive until February.