Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon review

The setup is this: you’re an escaped prisoner who gets wrangled into defending the war-torn isle of Avalon from an impending otherworldly force called the “wyrdness.” And also the soul of the centuries-dead King Arthur has hitched a ride on your subconscious. After centuries of imprisonment, he wants to take back his kingdom, and you…

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Can Shining Force Be Fixed?

  The title probably isn’t entirely fair. Plenty of Shining Force fans would say the game doesn’t need to be fixed, it’s already a classic, and I would wager that greyskies is among them. Nevertheless, greyskies has brought his Return to Grans hack of Shining Force 2 up to version 1.15. Paradoxically, what makes this…

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Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma review

One might assume that if you fell out of the sky, crash-landed through the roof of a shrine, and woke up with amnesia to a flying, talking sheep with horns listing your divine duties, you might get a day off. You might want to relax and recuperate. You might take a moment for yourself. Need…

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MindsEye is set to launch next week, so it’s probably not great that the studio’s chief financial officer and chief legal officer have both resigned

The pre-release saga of MindsEye, the debut game from former Rockstar Games stalwart Leslie Benzies and his Build a Rocket Boy studio, has taken another strange twist. As noticed today by Eurogamer, Build a Rocket Boy’s chief financial officer and chief legal officer have both left the company, just a week ahead of MindsEye’s release….

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Old School Runescape private server development is paused ‘indefinitely’ as Jagex says it has more important things to work on

I hope you weren’t too excited about the prospect of private servers for Old School Runescape, because Jagex has announced that Project Zanaris—the OSRS “community servers” initiative announced in 2024—has been paused “indefinitely.” And it sure doesn’t sound like it’ll be restarted, as developers previously working on the project “have been redistributed across Jagex or…

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