As a PC user, I’m glad Microsoft started making consoles just because of the controllers we got out of them (although I have also enjoyed owning both an original Xbox and a 360). My 360 controller is on its way out and I’m faced with the choice of just buying an identical one to replace it or upgrading to an Xbox One…

There is no such thing as bad publicity.

So there’s ‘[native] support [for] cross-platform play between Xbox One and Windows 10 games that use Xbox Live’. That’s how many games? I can only think of Minecraft and Gears of War Ultimate Edition. Actually, I wouldn’t mind being able to play Minecraft with my Xbox One friends. When does this come into effect?

Who needs a man when you’ve got, like, 50 Wookiees.

It’s really not anymore with Windows 10 - use the media creation tool to create some installation media (a spare USB stick will do) then boot from it and it only takes about 10 minutes to install. I’d recommend doing it completely from scratch - i.e. format your hard drive - so you’ll have to make sure you’ve got your…

Ho. Lee. Shit. I did not see that coming! This is most welcome news. Abe’s Oddysee was a pretty defining game for me and I still remember reading through the manual and it saying that Oddysee was supposed to be the first part in a Quintology that would explore different locations with different characters around…

Yep, that would be awesome. I replayed those two quite recently actually - Warcraft shows its age quite a bit but is still perfectly playable through DOSBox, but Warcraft II holds up really well after over 20 years. I have no idea why Blizzard haven’t made them available online already - they’ve got nothing to be…

This is very timely, as I just started a replay of Age of Empires II, in its new HD guise on Steam, playing through the original campaign and the Conquerors before tackling the new expansions, The Forgotten and African Kingdoms, for the first time, all the while thinking how great these games are and how well they’ve…

It’s ‘The Art of Empires’ - the hardcover artbook that came with the collector’s edition of Age of Empires III.

It’s not, it’s the hardcover artbook that came with the collector’s edition of Age of Empires III.

wut

I’ve got those games on Steam so I’ve just tried downloading Aquanox and it’s working absolutely fine for me on Windows 10. So whatever issues people are having must be down to their individual hardware configurations and not their operating system, or maybe the game has been updated on Steam since you played it. And…

Makes sense considering they sell it digitally through Battle.net, and Blizzard have been really good with releasing patches for older games years later - I actually didn’t play StarCraft until 2009 and, halfway through playing it, a new patch was released. I thought I was hallucinating.

That’s because EA simply does not give a crap about older games and those games in particular and have done absolutely nothing to help them work on newer systems.

Steam versions of old games are usually exactly the same as the GoG versions. Case in point - Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds has been out on GoG since last year but just came out on Steam last week. The Steam version has the exact same modifications to get it working on later versions of Windows that the GoG…

Finally! I’ve been holding off on playing this game until the Kotaku review, so now I can finally play it!

I loved that about it - first person shooters are a dime a dozen so it was nice to have something that played a little differently. After all, it’s not meant to be an FPS, it’s meant to be a first person platformer. Being able to remain locked on to an enemy, running and jumping all over the place whilst charging the…

*P.P.S, not P.S.S.

That’s what I came down to the comments to ask about - I’m so confused. What I’ve taken away from this is - They hate Nintendo for ‘bad’ translations and ‘censorship’ by doing things like giving underage female characters less skimpy costumes and removing the ability to change bust sizes on localised versions of…

The editor of this is obviously on my wavelength - they removed everything I didn’t like about the trailer. I didn’t like the titles saying ‘30 years ago...’ because that explicitly set the film up as a sequel when everything that’s revealed about the plot seems to suggest that it’s a reboot (otherwise, what happened…