“That initial dungeon, the very first one you start the game in, that was mine.”. If you’ve ever attempted to play The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, you’ll know that it doesn’t exactly get off to the easiest of starts. Dumped into the tutorial dungeon, it’s not uncommon for players to round the first set of…
Late last year, I wrote about a bizarre moment when game developers suddenly became obsessed with eggs for some reason. Then everybody pointed out all the games about eggs that I didn’t mention in the article, as if the goal was to create an exhaustive list of egg-based games and not observe a general trend….
In 1982 Gottlieb released a very famous game that had an orange character with a long snout as a nose, it just had to be the isometric arcade game with puzzle elements of ‘ Q*Bert ‘. It was so popular in fact it appeared on many systems such as the Atari 2600 and the C64…
XCOM 3 may still be nothing more than a glint in Firaxis’ compound eye, but Steam’s digital walk-in freezer is bursting with alternative tactical lifeforms to dissect. These range from Julian Gollop’s own attempt to modernise XCOM in Phoenix Point, to The Long War creators’ absurdly complex Terra Invicta, which blows out X-COM’s alien invasion…
Do you remember loving this bad video game? I have a love/hate relationship with Macross M3. As any Macross fan will tell you, the popular anime series has a sketchy history when it comes to video game adaptations. For every Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Scrambled Valkyrie, there are multiple flops, and prior to picking up…
“Work-for-hire is not the way we should be doing things”. Charles Zembillas isn’t the type of person to stay quiet when he feels he’s been disrespected. He’s aware that may make him seem like a bit of a “firebrand” to some. But it’s something he feels has been necessary to set the record straight, given…
Before Valve reinvented cooperative gaming with Left 4 Dead, there was Zombie Panic! A mod for the original Half-Life, Zombie Panic! pitted groups of players against a single, player-controlled brain-muncher. Which doesn’t sound all that challenging, except that any survivors killed by the zombie would rise again as zombies themselves, slowly turning the tide against…
Pokémanz. Hello everyone, and welcome to this newfangled concept called ‘the weekend’. It’s a strange one, but we’re here for it. Before we dive into what we’re playing, let’s see what’s been going on this week, hm? First of all, Nintendo joined hundreds of other companies in North America in suing the government for its…
What could have been… The final design of the C Button In the end, the ‘C’ button on Switch 2’s Joy-Con was revealed as a way of communicating and chatting with friends and family members. Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Seeing people have fun with DK again shows the “potential”. After an incredibly long wait, Donkey Kong made his grand return to the 3D platforming space in Donkey Kong Bananza. Making this particular IP one of the main titles for the Switch 2’s launch window was arguably a risk for Nintendo but it’s paid off,…