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DICE’s Coutaz now also heading up Criterion

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DICE's Coutaz now also heading up Criterion The general manager of DICE, Rebecka Coutaz, ha been promoted to also head up UK developer Criterion.  GI.biz reports that she has taken on the new role of VP and GM of Battlefield Studios Europe. Criterion has contributed to EA’s flagship shooter since 2016’s Battlefield 1 and will continue to do so alongside Motive and Ripple Effect in the United States.  Coutaz joined DICE as its VP…

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Retro

Someone Compared All The Versions Of Battletoads So You Don’t Have To

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Image: Damien McFerran / Time ExtensionRare’s Battletoads is one of the most iconic action platformers of the ’90s, and was positively bursting with ideas and set-pieces – it’s also as hard as nails, a trait which has both endeared and annoyed people in equal measures over the decades. While many people think of Battletoads as a property inexorably linked to Nintendo – perhaps due to Rare’s close connection with the company back then and the fact that it began life on the NES – Rare’s green-skinned heroes were not exclusive to Nintendo hardware. The game would be ported to other…

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Retro

Watching This 30-Year-Old Joypad Take An Ultrasonic Bath Is Strangely Satisfying

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Image: Damien McFerran / Time ExtensionNo matter how highly we rate our personal hygiene, it’s impossible to keep your hands totally clean 100% of the time – and when you think that multiple people may have handled some of our old-school controllers over the past few decades, it’s inevitable that they will pick up at least some funky gunk in that time. If you’re still not convinced, then check out the video below, posted by modder and engineer Voultar. It shows a Japanese Sega Saturn control pad getting a lovely bath. “This Saturn controller has 30 years of human gunk…

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Best BLACK FRIDAY Gaming Deals You SHOULDN’T Miss (2024)

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Retro

Backyard Soccer ’98 Is Available Now On Steam

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[embedded content]Subscribe to Time Extension on YouTube2.2k Humungous Entertainment’s Backyard Soccer ’98 is now available on Steam & Steam Deck, thanks to the developer Mega Cat Studios and publisher Playground Productions. The two companies announced back in August that they were working together to bring back the iconic series of children’s sports games, with Playground Productions also expressing hopes to launch merchandise, as well as film and television projects, based on the property. Since then, they have gone on to rerelease the very first game in the Backyard Sports series Backyard Baseball ’97 on Steam last month, and have just…

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