Too bad that Luc Besson's shiny sci-fi epic The Fifth Element came out in 1997 and slightly missed the 16-bit era. As the latest 8-bit Cinema short by Cinefix shows, it could have been a pretty cool licensed 2D action game, something similar to Flashback or Blackthorne.
Happy three-day weekend! Or, to those of you who don't live in America, happy Monday!
After twenty-one years, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is getting a direct sequel. That's quite the gap, twenty-one years. But it's far from being the only big gap.
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Here’s how much I loved Flashback: The Quest for Identity: when a clearly unsanctioned version of the classic sci-fi platformer surfaced on Apple’s App Store a few years ago, I knew better than to buy it. But I did anyway. I think the janky code successfully ran only once. It wasn’t enough to rekindle my memories of…
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Ubisoft has revealed a trailer for a "re-imagining" of the 1992 cinematic platformer, Flashback. The game is coming "soon," according to the trailer itself, to PS3 and Xbox 360.
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Yesterday, former Epic Games designer and Dead Space aficionado Cliff Bleszinski was quoted by GamesIndustry International about what he perceived as the worst turmoil the industry's experienced since the eighties. The situation was so bad, he suggested, that even Nintendo might throw in the towel and go…
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As you might have heard, Sony's (most likely) officially announcing the next PlayStation tomorrow. This isn't the first console reveal Sony has done, though. Let's think back to those times. What information was Sony willing to part with during their very first reveals for their other big consoles? It might give us…
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3D without glasses? No thanks. I'll take my monochrome sprites and go and have some real fun.
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We don't know every last thing about the new Xbox. Some leaked details, for the most part, sprinkled with a liberal helping of rumors. While we wait for new bits and pieces to be revealed, why not reminisce a bit? Let's have a look at how the very first Xbox, turning 12 years old this year, was received.
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Today, we've got Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony vying for control of the console market. But there was a time when Sega was also a contender. Their last home console, the Dreamcast, is still getting games (sort of) despite being fourteen years old. But what was it about the Dreamcast that inspired such devotion? Let's…
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Everyone's talking about the PS4. There are details popping up. Dates being announced. Hell, even mock-ups being created. So why don't we take a break from all that, and check out what they used to say about the very first PlayStation? Let's take a look!
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Do you think people get emotional about today's gaming consoles? Have you noticed that the people running PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo sometimes say weird things? Or make some bold claims?
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A brief exchange on Twitter yesterday got me wondering how the media covered Tetris back in the day before that game's release.
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This week marks my third anniversary with Kotaku, spending all of that as the site's weekend editor. On my third weekend here, my brother Fletch and I unloaded this post - "Two Brothers Meditating Upon Questions of Pac-Man," originally published April 19, 2008. A hypothetical calculation of Pac-Man's, er, metabolic…
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Paul Cuisset, the man behind the rotoscoped classic Flashback, takes a turn at survival horror with Amy, a tale of post-global warming horror that charges you with protecting one very special little girl.
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Delphine's classic platformer Flashback is now available on the iPhone! Seeing as it's only one of best games ever made, this should be good news, but then, this is the iPhone we're talking about.
