Backyard Soccer ’98 Is Available Now On Steam

The rerelease is also Steam Deck verified, for gaming on the go. Humungous Entertainment’s Backyard Soccer ’98 is now available on Steam & Steam Deck, thanks to the developer Mega Cat Studios and publisher Playground Productions. The two companies announced back in August that they were working together to bring back the iconic series of…

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Diablo boss triggers mass eyeroll after wondering out loud if ‘we could normalize Diablo-like for ARPGs that follow the Diablo formula’

Diablo is an ARPG, a term that is admittedly fraying at the edges like an overworn bag. We obviously mean different things when we talk about action RPGs like Diablo, and action RPGs like The Veilguard, but it’s a genre descriptor we use nonetheless. It’s like CRPGs—yes, CRPG means something specific (an isometric RPG with…

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‘Captain Barrel’ Is A New Arcade-Style Platformer For Mega Drive / Genesis, Dreamcast, & Neo Geo

A PSP & Atari Jaguar port have also previously been announced. Neo Byte Force, the developer behind the run-and-gun action shooter Cyborg Force, is releasing a new arcade-style single-screen platformer called Captain Barrel, for the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis, Sega Dreamcast, Neo Geo AES/MVS, and Neo Geo CD (thanks @DanteMendes!). Physical versions of the…

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