PowerA teams up with Bandai Namco for licensed Pac-Man gear for 45th anniversary
PowerA has partnered with Bandai Namco Entertainment America to create gaming gear for the 45th anniversary of Pac-Man. Pac-Man is one of the most...
Digic Pictures releases documentaries behind Amazon and Blur’s Secret Level game-based film anthology
Digic Pictures released three cool videos documenting how it made its share of the episodes for Amazon’s Secret Level game-based films. If you haven’t...
Scopely finally brings Stumble Guys to console with Xbox launch
Scopely announced this week that its party game Stumble Guys is making its console debut later this month. It officially launches on Xbox on...
Mark Zuckerberg launches Pac-Man Community audience-played game on Facebook/Meta
Mark Zuckerberg unveiled that Pac-Man Community is debuting on Facebook Gaming as one of the first games where audiences can play together while spectating....
The RetroBeat: I want to celebrate Pac-Man’s 40th birthday with this tiny cabinet
Pac-Man turns 40 years old today, and MyArcade is celebrating with an attractive (and functionable) collectible. It’s the The Pac-Man 40th Anniversary Micro Player,...
Pac-Man Live Studio enables you to play and create mazes on Twitch
Pac-Man turned 40 years old today. And that’s the perfect age to start a Twitch career. Bandai Namco’s pellet-munching hero is getting a new...
Nvidia’s GameGAN generates games like Pac-Man by watching videos
Two years ago, Nvidia researchers detailed AI that could generate visuals and combine them with a game engine to create an interactive, navigable environment....
Donkey Kong’s failing liver: What the death of the CRT display technology means for classic arcade machines
The cathode-ray-tube monitor technology that powered every arcade game before 1992 is dead. What happens to the games when the last screen stops working?
Namco founder, pioneer of Japan’s arcade industry, dies at 91
When I went to Japan in December, I spent some quality time in a Namco arcade. Japan still has a number of arcades, and many...
Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 impressions: missing the point
Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 is out now for $13 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, and I’ve played it for around four hours. It brings back a lot of the elements that helped the original stick out while simultaneously burying what made those earlier games so engaging.