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Bethesda Adds Free Classic Elder Scrolls Games To Steam
26.4.2022
Back in February, Bethesda confirmed that it was shutting down its proprietary PC game launcher and would move affected games back to Steam. Now, as we get closer to the May 11 shutdown, Bethesda has started adding some of its classic games to Steam. Some are arriving on Valve’s digital storefront...
Monkey Island Returns With A New Game From Original Creators Later This Year
4.4.2022
Monkey Island, the iconic point-and-click adventure series developed by genre heavyweights Ron Gilbert, David Grossman, and Tim Schafer, is coming back to life in 2022 with Return to Monkey Island. Better yet, Gilbert and Grossman are in charge once again, ending a 30-year absence from...
A Horror Game That Commits So Hard To Consequences, It's A Knockout
31.3.2022
The most fascinating aspect of Weird West’s design is how friendly the game is to my fuck-ups. Have you ever thought to yourself: “I would like to play a top-down Dishonored game, but as a western?” Say no more. Even if that’s not a thought you’ve ever had, you should consider it. Weird West, which...
Hundreds Of Sealed Retro '90s Games That Were Just Publicly Revealed Could Be Worth A Million Bucks
18.2.2022
For gaming collectors and preservationists, it’s a high score: hundreds of classic games, many of which, according to video footage of the discovery, appear to be factory sealed. The entire thing is eventually getting sold, and when it does, it could clock in as one of the big ones, potentially...
Worms Developer The Latest To Sell Out Over NFTs
31.1.2022
In 1994, Andy Davidson had an idea. That idea was to take the infinitely copied mid-70s Tektronix 4051 game, Artillery, but do it with cartoon worms. Then-developer Team17 snapped it up, called it Worms, and have since wrung out every last drop of miserable profit from the mediocre idea ever since....
Amiga A500 Mini Launches March 2022 With 25 Games
18.12.2021
Yesterday, Retro Games Ltd. announced that its full licensed mini version of the popular late ‘80s computer, the Amiga A500, would be out on March 25, 2022 and also revealed the full list of the 25 games included with the retro-inspired device. Read more
Broken Arrow Is Trying The Whole Modern RTS Thing Again
15.12.2021
The RTS genre as we know it, or at least the popular perception of it, is dominated by its most traditional efforts, the kind of base-building-then-rush approach seen in everything from Command & Conquer to StarCraft. That’s not the only way to play an RTS, though.Read more
Dune: Spice Wars Is A New Real-Time PC Game
10.12.2021
Dune has a long history of very good strategy games, dating all the way back to 1992 when we got not one but two all-time greats based on the license. It’s been a while between then and now—with a little Dune 2000 in the meantime—but we’re now heading back to Arrakis in Dune: Spice Wars.Read more
It Is 2021. Star Citizen Has Raised $400,000,000, And Is Still Not Out.
22.11.2021
It is 2007. I am playing a game on Xbox Live Arcade called Wing Commander Arena. It is a top-down shooter, and I hate it. This is not Wing Commander. Why has nobody made a new Wing Commander. Read more
Your Next Game Pass Pick Is An RPG That Combines Stranger Things and EarthBound
21.10.2021
I’m not normally a fan of turn-based RPGs, but Echo Generation’s voxel-based visuals caught my attention, so I decided to give it a shot. I’m very glad I did. While it’s a sometimes frustrating game, it has enough charm and style that I enjoyed it even when I got stuck. It also doesn’t overstay...
Old Video Shows The Birth Of Mortal Kombat's 'Get Over Here' Move
13.10.2021
You’d be forgiven for thinking that every move and every system you’ve ever enjoyed in a video game has been planned to the last meticulous detail. But hey, sometimes a thought just comes to you, and the results stand the test of time.Read more
What's A 4X Game, And Why Do They Rule?
8.10.2021
Here’s an experience we’ve all definitely had: It’s a Monday and your co-workers are gathering around the water cooler discussing the games they played over the weekend. “I can’t get enough of this new 4X game,” one of them declares. Excited by talk of video games, you make an effort to break into...
The Best Gamescom Surprise So Far Is This Spell-Casting Shooter
24.8.2021
Fans of fast-paced first-person shooters that send you beyond the earthly plane to murder demons while heavy metal plays in the background should have their interest piqued by a certain upcoming release. No, no, not another Doom. We’re talking about an indie game called Into the Pit, which looks...
ScummVM Is Bringing CD-ROM Games Back
19.8.2021
ScummVM, the collection of recreated last-century game engines that allows replaying classic adventures from the likes of LucasArts and Revolution, has just added support for Macromedia Director. This opens the door for the return of previously unplayable ‘90s CD-ROM games, starting with...
Four Of The Best PC Games Ever Are Free Right Now
9.8.2021
It feels like only a couple of months ago that we were reporting EA had pulled four of the all-time greatest PC games from sale on GOG. Because it was. At the time, the peculiar publisher ignored our questions as to why. Now, just over six weeks later, Ultima Underworlds 1 & 2, Syndicate,...
Ninja Gaiden's Disastrous PC Port Now At Least Has In-Game Graphics Options
13.7.2021
Just over a month after its release on PC, Koei Tecmo’s Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection—a full-priced product from a major international publisher—has finally got around to adding some in-game graphics options.Read more
Ninja Gaiden Pacifist Speedrun Is Impressive AF
7.7.2021
Ninja Gaiden protagonist Ryu Hayabusa deals with a lot of bullshit in the iconic NES platformer from 1989, so it only makes sense that he would obliterate everything in his path en route to finding his father’s killer. But speedrunners, the crazy people that they are, have devised a way to beat...
TIE Fighter Has Been Remade With More Modern Visuals
6.7.2021
If EA’s Squadrons wasn’t quite to the scale you were hoping for from your Star Wars flight game, never mind: you can always replay 1994 classic TIE Fighter, which now has vastly-improved visuals and some other modern tweaks instead.Read more
Sea of Thieves: A Pirate's Life Has A Very Fun Easter Egg
1.7.2021
The whole point of Sea of Thieves: A Pirates Life was that it served as a crossover event between Rare’s pirate game and Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean series. But tucked away at the end of the expansion is a secret that has nothing to do with Captain Jack Sparrow, or really Sea of Thieves...
EA Is Pulling Some Classics From GOG, And One Will Be Totally Delisted
25.6.2021
Some classic PC games, including the fantastic and historically important Ultima Underworld series, are being removed from GOG on June 28. The games are on sale for next to nothing ahead of their removal.Read more