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“Annihilate All Enemies!” – Namco’s Block-Breaking Arkanoid Rival ‘Quester’ Arrives On Consoles This Week

The brick breaker originally landed in arcades back in 1987. Namco’s 1987 brick-breaking arcade game Quester has been revealed as the next classic arcade game coming to modern consoles as part of Arcade Archives. It will be released digitally tomorrow (January 29th) on Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PS4, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, with two…

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One of the strangest point ‘n’ click adventures of the ’90s is getting a modern ‘restoration’ for Steam, making it easily playable for the first time this century

The ’90s were a great time to be a PC gamer, especially if you go in for weird shit. Some truly bizarre experiments emerged from the era, most of which I never got to play but faintly remember reading about in magazines. Whether it’s the pomo ultraviolence of Harvester, the sickly roach simulator Bad Mojo,…

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Baldur’s Gate 3 mod restores more than 100 conversations and 1,000 lines of voiced dialogue from the early access version previously lost in the ethereal plane

I played the first act of Baldur’s Gate 3 a few times in early access, which is why I’m always slightly surprised on subsequent playthroughs that there aren’t a bunch of mind-controlled anglers protecting the dying mind flayer you encounter near the start of the game. They were cut in the final release, along with…

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