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Nightstone looks like a game from 90s era I was convinced it’s older than it actually is. And I’ve got surprised when it asked me about DirectX 8.0 package during the installation. There are a lot of cursed things about this game. One of the publishers is Titus Interactive – the publisher of Superman 64, … Read more
Price It would be hard to compare them without knowing current prices. Prices range heavily by region when local resellers may be selling you PS Vita for 220€ and PSP for 100€. It may seam like local resellers of used consoles may know what they are doing for such hefty prices but in my experience … Read more
Warzone 2100 on PSX Warzone 2100 was released in times when PC wasn’t a major gaming platform due to the price, in 1999. Sony PlayStation dominated the market and, as I recall it, people didn’t even think about strategies as PC exclusive genre. Because the majority of players didn’t know any better than controlling a … Read more
Interviewer: Thanks for coming. How can I refer to you? Deriv’era: Thanks for organizing this. Call me Deriv’era. Interviewer: You created a PSP game in 2025. Why? Why PSP? Deriv’era: My thought process was straightforward – to create something small you need to pick platform that will restrict your crazy ideas to something realistic. I … Read more
Short answer – no. But this topic is more complicated than just a short answer. The reason is – hardware PSP is of the last generation of the devices that are relatively easy to emulate. The reason is simplicity of its hardware. GPU of PSP has a fixed function pipeline. Easiest way to explain what … Read more
Space Rangers should have become a game with minimal graphics, no sound and working in a window. In the same way as how Dmitrii Gusarov, the creator, made his previous project – The General. In the cold city of Russia by the name of Vladisvostok he met a developer Alexey Dubovoi. Dubovoi immediately liked the … Read more
Not so iconic game from the iconic developer Psygnosis is an iconic company, that made Lemmings, Wipeout, G-Police and other memorable games. It is a company that stated that they invest and hire the best artists to draw graphics in the days when many developers did both code and art. Psygnosis changed the look of … Read more
Warzone 2100 Warzone 2100 is a strategy game released in 1999 on PC and PS1. When this game came out I was a child. I had a PS1 games magazine where Warzone 2100 was described as something giving a vibe of a StarCraft killer that appears to be just another strategy game in the process. … Read more
Back in my childhood Nvidia was associated with games. Their videocards were the way how games were meant to be played. Radeon existed as well but their shallow marketing wasn’t as catchy as what Nvidia had. Over a long period of time Nvidia was releasing a banger after a banger. 6xx series, 9xx series, 10xx … Read more
PSP is a really nice present for a retro fun. By tracking auctions on Ebay you can get the device for just 50 dollars in good condition for something 20 years old. But how good is PSP itself by modern standards? Well, people from Reddit at r/PSP mention from time to time that PSP became … Read more