Category: Video Games

The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask just received another unofficial PC port with a high frame rate, ultra-widescreen resolution, and more.

As reported by VGC, this port from Harbour Masters, the same team which released an unofficial version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for PC in 2022, is completely separate to another Majora’s Mask port released earlier in May 2024. That version used “Recomp” recompiling technology to port any Nintendo 64 game much faster than ever before.

Harbour Masters, meanwhile, reverse engineered the original N64 version of the game to create a readable code before porting it to PC. It claims this will allow for “more large scale features” than the Recomp version, evidenced by the likes of Harbour Masters’ version having mod support.

LANÇADO o 2Ship2Harkinian! Um port de PC do game THE LEGEND OF ZELDA MAJORA’S MASK!

Ele é trabalho do time Harbour Masters 64, que usou o projeto de decompilação do jogo para criar uma versão nativa para PC!

Já na primeira versão, conta com várias opções de customização e… pic.twitter.com/HEPq0W6T3e

— Senhor Linguiça (@SenhorLinguica) May 27, 2024

As for its other features, autosaves, faster mask transformations, skippable cutscenes, a bow reticle, and more have all been added to Majora’s Mask in Harbour Masters’ version. Cheats, such as infinite health, magic, rupees, and consumables are all available too.

Creating unofficial ports of Nintendo games comes with certain risks, of course, including legal action from the gaming giant. Nintendo issued a takedown request to Github for more than 8,500 copies of code of Switch emulator Yuzu earlier in May 2024, for example. This came after it sued the creator of Yuzu, who had to pay $2.4 million in damages, and follows a string of similar cases.

Game file sharing website RomUniverse was ordered to pay $2.1 million in damages to Nintendo in 2021, while another instance in 2018 saw it receive more than $12 million in damages. It also blocked GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin from releasing on PC game platform Steam.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.

Star Citizen has now raised over $700 million according to figures from developer Cloud Imperium Games.

The developer behind the controversial space sim makes revenue publicly available on its website, which at the time of this article’s publication shows Star Citizen has raised $701,186,615. CIG calls this money “funds raised.”

CIG even breaks down the revenue by recent months, weeks, and hours. At its lowest point on the morning of May 28, Star Citizen brought in $42,886 in one hour, about $1.5 million yesterday, May 27, $10,883,513 last week, and $4,753,264 for the month of April (things appear to have picked up considerably in May after the launch of the Alpha 3.23: Adventure Beckons update).

Star Citizen is considered one of the most controversial projects in all video games. Over the 12 years since its crowdfunding drive began, it’s been called many things including a scam by those who wonder whether it will ever properly launch. Its virtual space ships, some of which cost hundreds of dollars, are often the focus of criticism.

Alpha 3.23 launched two months after CIG began talking about Star Citizen’s 1.0 launch being within sight, over a decade after the game released its first crowdfunding drive. CIG chief Chris Roberts has said 2024 will see the launch of Star Citizen Alpha 4.0, and that the developer is working to bring features developed for Squadron 42, the standalone story-based game starring the likes of Mark Hamill and Gillian Anderson, to the persistent universe portion of the game “at an accelerated rate”.

This is all building up to Star Citizen 1.0, which, Roberts has said, “is what we consider the features and content set to represent ‘commercial’ release.” However, there is still no release date or even release window for Star Citizen 1.0. CIG will share the roadmap later this year, it has said.

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Following the enormous success of the Resident Evil 2, 3, and 4 remakes, Capcom has turned its attention to remakes of Resident Evil Zero and Code Veronica.

That’s according to a Twitter/X report by Dusk Golem, who said remakes of Resident Evil Zero and Code Veronica are “in development right now.” IGN can corroborate that Zero and Code Veronica are the next two Resident Evil remakes scheduled to release. Capcom is yet to comment on the reports.

Zenless Zone Zero, the hotly anticipated new game from the makers of Genshin Impact, launches globally on July 4, 2024, across PC, PlayStation 5, iOS, and Android. The game is not available on Nintendo Switch or Xbox Series X and S.

HoYoverse said its anime-inspired “urban” fantasy action role-playing game will support cross-progression and cross-play upon release when it goes live. The final closed beta ends today, May 28, with the game having reached an impressive pre-registration total of 35 million players worldwide. At 40 million, a figure Zenless Zone Zero will surely hit before launch, HoYoverse will give players in-game rewards including up to 20 Master Tapes, which can be used to obtain rare characters, the playable Agent Corin, 30,000 Dennies, and Boopons, an in-game item used to obtain rare Bangboo.