Or ‘Castloid’ if you prefer. Updated with Disney Illusion Island, 9 Years of Shadows, and Worldless. Enjoy! The word ‘Metroidvania’ might rub some core gamers the wrong way, but it’s a useful catch-all to describe a very specific type of game experience. Combining elements from both the Metroid series and Koji Igarashi-produced Castlevania titles, this…
Big Box Collection features 3D models of over 748 boxes. In the days before PC games were primarily bought and sold through digital storefronts like Steam or GOG, big boxes were king. These large, often beautifully designed, packages presented players with a tangible product they could hold and came with gloriously rendered artwork, as well…
Half-Life celebrated its 25th anniversary last Sunday, and Valve laid out a buffet of Lambda-shaped treats to mark the occasion. The company added new multiplayer maps to the game, released an hour-long documentary delving into its design, and fixed a few of its most resilient bugs. But there’s one bug that escaped Valve’s digital butterfly…
What is it about the Modern Warfare games producing the most cursed-looking movement glitches, lately? There was the horrifying “G walk” in MW2, which looked like your character was breaking out an all fours to tear into someone’s jugular, and this ‘Superman‘ glitch from the same year that made you look like a Hunter from…
Or we should call it ‘Tails World’ now? If you happen to have owned the Sonic Jam compilation of classic Sonic games for the Sega Saturn, you may remember the ‘Sonic World’ Mode that was also included in the package. This was an interactive museum that players could access that allowed them to move around…
Smells like someone cut the fromage. Although Duke Nukem’s history is filled with notable titles – the much-delayed Duke Nukem Forever being perhaps the most infamous of all – it’s fair to say that his most beloved game is 1996’s Duke Nukem 3D, an FPS classic which stuck its middle finger up at the likes…
Waves crash violently against steely hulls, sailor crews scurry around like regimented ants to man the devastating weapons of warships, while the surrounding waters burst into foamy pillars from the relentless pounding of artillery bombardment. The strategy and thrill of naval warfare is a special one, and ever since its release in 2015, Wargaming’s free-to-play…
Shake it, baby. A few years before he was “all outta gum”, Duke Nukem starred in a pair of MS-DOS action platformers which were distributed as shareware. Created by Apogee Software, Duke Nukem (1991) and Duke Nukem II (1993) were two rare beasts, at least on PC; while home consoles had plenty of Contra-style run-and-gun…
Watermelon Game has been a huge success. After becoming a viral sensation, Nintendo was quick to get a local release of Suika Game out of the Switch eShop. Since then, the title has now reportedly surpassed more than four million Switch eShop downloads worldwide. This information comes from the Japanese website Gamer. To celebrate this…
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