New games can bloom on the battlefield. After what has most certainly felt like an eternity for many of us, five of the mainline Metal Gear games are now available to Nintendo fans on the Switch via Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1. While it’s perhaps not the most pristine package that we were…
Released in 1987 by Dinamic Software, “Game Over II,” known as “Phantis” in Spain, is a classic title that combines elements of a scrolling shooter and a platform game. Available on multiple platforms, including the ZX Spectrum, MSX, MS-DOS, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and Atari ST, the game offered players a unique and challenging gaming…
Grim Fandango released on October 30, 1998, and so yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of arguably the greatest adventure game LucasArts ever made. Yeah OK, OK, simmer down Monkey Island fans: it’s Manny Calavera’s time to shine. And to mark the occasion Double Fine, the studio founded by Grim Fandango writer Tim Schafer, has published…
Deciding whether to say yes to Raphael’s deal in Baldur’s Gate 3 is one of the more challenging decisions you’ll have to make during your travels across Faerun. On the one hand, he’s offering you a Legendary weapon and a means to free Orpheus. On the other, he’s a devil who quite clearly wants to…
Arkane Studios celebrated 24 years of business this month with a social media post that commemorated almost all of its games. In the line-up was subterranean RPG Arx Fatalis and extraordinary FPS experiment Deathloop. So was System Shock tribute Prey, as well as all three Victoriana stealth-action games set in the Dishonored universe. Even this…
There’s a tradition among Dungeons & Dragons players—and honestly, RPGs at large—that if you get to a high enough level, you’re gonna kill a god. Unless, of course, you’re running a campaign for a table of obstinate players who want to kill the devil instead. This officially-sanctioned D&D book from Arcanum Worlds lets you do…
In what is becoming almost an annual event, though hardly the celebratory kind, Ubisoft has announced it is closing the servers for a bunch of the publisher’s older titles. In the past Ubisoft has somewhat messed-up the messaging on such things, leaving players under the false impression that the affected titles would become unplayable, but…
If you’re looking for new ways to scratch your Baldur’s Gate 3 itch, and can get to London somehow next May, then the recently announced Symphony of the Realms concert is worth knowing about. The game’s soundtrack, composed by Borislav Slavov will, for the first time be performed live in concert at the Southbank Centre’s…
Heaven a good time. This review was originally published in November 2014. We’re updating and republishing it to mark the game’s arrival in the Nintendo Switch Online NES library — and its official debut in North America nearly 40 years after its Japanese launch on Famicom. As far as obscure releases within the NES library…
Need to Know What is it? A gorgeous vertical platformer following in the footsteps of Journey and Abzu, with a dash of Grow Home. Release date October 31, 2023 Expect to pay $24/£22.50 Developer DON’T NOD Publisher DON’T NOD Reviewed on Steam Deck Steam Deck Playable Link Official site I let the tension of…