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PS2 Emulator Development Ceases Following Death Threats
5.1.2023
The sole developer behind AetherSX2, a PlayStation 2 emulator for Android devices, announced that they are discontinuing development of the app due to the “neverending” online impersonation, complaints, demands, and death threats they’ve endured. Read more
Video Game Gear: 10 Things We Got In 2022 That We Now Can't Live Without
30.12.2022
With another year of gaming now receding into the past, it seems a good occasion to look back and geek out over some of the gadgets, gizmos, and hardware in general that thrilled our nerdy little hearts in 2022. Read more
Levi Winslow’s Top 9 Games Of 2022
28.12.2022
Wow, it’s the end of 2022 already? Maybe this is always the case, but the first half of the year felt so slow, it felt like this year would never end.. However, once August rolled around, I swear I blinked and it was December. Where’d the time go? Anyway, in these last 12 months, despite worrying...
Our Favorite Childhood Holiday Gifts, Video Game Edition
23.12.2022
Ah, the holidays. In these modern times they’re synonymous with over-indulging on alcohol to drown out GamGam’s spicy takes on President Biden and vaccines, but back in the day they were all fuzzy pajamas and shiny wrapping paper.Read more
EA Made A LotR Game With A Tiger Woods Engine
6.12.2022
Making video games is very hard. It can take years of work to ship even a small game. One aspect that can take up a particularly large amount of time and resources is building a custom engine, which is why many devs utilize Unreal, Unity, or another pre-existing engine to help speed up development....
Ranking All The Grand Theft Auto Games, From Worst To Best
28.11.2022
The Grand Theft Auto franchise has been around for two decades now, and the series includes over a dozen titles. Some GTA games are excellent, others...not so much. Let’s take a moment to rank every GTA game, from worst to best.Read more
New Vampire Horror Evil West: A Modern PS2 Action Game, In All The Best Ways
21.11.2022
Depending on how old you are, you might remember the concept of “The Weekend Game,” as in the title you rented or borrowed from a friend and beat in like 2 or 3 sittings between Friday and Sunday. And that was it. Maybe you replay a few levels to grab some collectibles, but nothing more than that....
Prince Of Persia Pre-Orders Canceled, But Ubisoft Swears It's Not Dead
8.11.2022
Two years after it was first announced, and following a string of delays and bad news, Ubisoft officially confirmed that the game isn’t dead, but it has canceled all pre-orders and refunded everyone their money. Read more
Metal Gear Solid 2 Gets A Whole New Perspective With Third-Person Camera Mod
8.11.2022
I am obligated to report that Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty is over 20 years old. I may not want to think about that, but here we are. The original visual aesthetic has a wonderful PS2-era charm that I think has become rather endearing in its age. But that hasn’t stopped one modder from...
Star Ocean: The Divine Force Isn’t Terrible—And That’s Good Enough
4.11.2022
I live only a 15-minute drive from the house where I grew up. My parents moved when I was in college, at which point the physical embodiment of every memory from my formative years was turned over to strangers, only to be revisited in my dreams. On the few occasions I’ve gone back to that street...
The Red Ring Of Death Stalked All My Friends, And Then It Came For Me
26.10.2022
Hidden from the bustle of Jamaica Avenue, down a winding flight of stairs, the shop looked like a mausoleum, with stacks of busted PS2s, OG Xboxes, and GameCubes lining the walls. That small store in the Jamaica Colosseum Mall was the same place I’d once purchased Splinter Cell on PS2, Doom 3...
Every U.S. PlayStation 2 Game Manual Is Now Scanned In 4K
25.10.2022
Physical game manuals are hard to come by these days, especially as the industry begins to heavily lean into cloud streaming and digital-first infrastructures. But if you remember those good ole times when game boxes came with chunky pamphlets for you to peruse before jumping into your recent...
God Of War Ragnarok's First Four Hours Are Rock Solid
19.10.2022
After what feels like years of hype and trailers, the next entry in the God of War franchise finally arrives on November 9. And ahead of God of War Ragnarok’s launch on PS4 and PS5 next month, I’ve been playing the game for review. And while I can’t talk about everything, I can share some early...
Resident Evil 4 Is One Of The Best Scary Games Ever, And I Can’t Stop Buying It
17.10.2022
Back in 2005, when I was younger, Resident Evil 4 looked so cool. Then I found out that it would only be released on the Nintendo Gamecube, which I didn’t own. My dreams were shattered because I was a dumb kid and didn’t realize that one day it would come to more consoles. Since that sad moment...
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Is A Genius JRPG Vision That Began 25 Years Ago
13.10.2022
Tetsuya Takahashi has a story to tell.Read more
Oops: Valve Shows Switch Emulator In Steam Deck Vid, Then Deletes It
7.10.2022
There are a lot of reasons why people buy Steam Decks, Valve’s new portable gaming PC. It lets them take beloved Steam games on the go. Others use it to get the most out of Xbox Game Pass on PC. And some people use it to run a Nintendo Switch emulator called Yuzu. Valve admitted as much in a recent...
Fans Blast Tales Of Symphonia Remaster For Being A Downgrade
15.9.2022
Tales fans rejoiced earlier this week when Bandai Namco announced that one of the best entries in the long-running JRPG series would come to Nintendo Switch, and other modern platforms, by way of a remaster. Now they’re having second thoughts. The publisher has since made it clear that the new...
PS5's New VR Tech Is Making A Great First Impression
14.9.2022
Sony’s PSVR for PlayStation 4, the first serious VR add-on for a console, did pretty darn well for itself. It was reasonably affordable, well received by players and critics alike, and got a lot more post-launch support than many prior PlayStation hardware efforts (RIP, dear Vita). Now, various...
It's A Bummer The West's First My Summer Vacation Game Had To Be This One
8.9.2022
In 2000, a game called Boku no Natsuyasumi (“My Summer Vacation”) was released on the PlayStation. As the name suggests, it was about being a kid on summer vacation, and its slow pace and cruisy setting made it something of a cult classic, though one that sadly never saw an official...
Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed Is Modern Spin On A Fantastic PS2 Open-World Classic
31.8.2022
The PS2-era of video games was defined by wacky and original titles, especially compared to what we see in the gaming industry today. It was a wonderful time, and during that period of time is when the Destroy All Humans franchise appeared. Now, after remaking the first game in the series back...