Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball

The 1980s were a Golden Age for cartoonish super villains. Consider the brutish evil of Dolph Lundgren as Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, the greed of Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. Yet both pale in comparison to Bill Laimbeer as portrayed by himself on the Detroit Pistons. Consider: Bill Laimbeer was on…

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“I Still Dream Of This Becoming A Reality” – This Alien Vs. Predator Concept Could Have Resurrected Capcom’s Coin-Op Classic

“Thousands of people can’t be wrong for wanting this”. Back when Capcom’s side-scrolling brawlers were all the rage, the Japanese veteran produced the sublime Aliens vs. Predator for its CP System II arcade board. Considered something of a genre classic, the game was sadly never ported to any home system, and, at the time of…

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“The [NES] Is Not Gonna Go On Forever” – Forget GDC 2026, Take A Trip Back In Time With Recordings From The 1989 Event

“Available for the first time in 37 years”. The dust has only just settled on the 2026 edition of the Game Developers Conference, but The Video Game History Foundation is giving us the chance to blissfully drift back in time to the third such instalment of the (Computer) Games Developer Conference, recorded on audio tape…

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Marvel Rivals puts the wrong hero under the balance microscope, with some huge changes to Captain America’s combat while only dealing out a painfully small nerf for Gambit

Marvel Rivals brings a ton of new systems and heroes to the table. But what I’m interested in the most are the individual hero balance changes and the tweaks to the competitive placement match system. Players have been crying out for some serious nerfs and overall balance changes in Marvel Rivals for quite some time…

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