“‘What do you mean you can’t get these chips? Oh, AI’”. Plaion and SNK caused a stir earlier this year when they announced the Neo Geo AES+, a modern remake of the classic 1990 platform that gave us Metal Slug, Fatal Fury, Samurai Shodown, and King of Fighters. Pre-order demand massively surpassed expectations, and it…
I really dislike most of the “battlestation” stuff I see online—if you’re not familiar with the term, I it’s associated with people posting pictures of their PC gaming rigs. But most if it is just too clean! Influencer chic, streamer house style with flawless cable management and no indication that somebody actually plays games or…
One of media’s god-given powers is to coin phrases, one of our last remaining superpowers. Inspired by this post from Kieron Gillen, I wanted to take a moment to recall our noble-but-failed attempt to rename MOBAs (a miserable term that describes every game and no game) more than a decade ago. I am so out…
I like to keep a running tally of my GOTY so far. This isn’t everything I’ve played, but it is everything I’ve played enough to properly judge. Here’s where I’m at. Any glaring omissions I need to correct? (Image credit: Backloggd)
(Image credit: Something We Made) I just redid my best cozy games list, but Toem 2 comes out this month, sequel to one of my favorites. Actually, there are several more anticipated cozy games right at the end of this month (Nivalis Nights and Songs of Glimmerwick) so I’m going to have to reassess the…
Four games I wishlisted on Steam out of last weekend’s PC Gaming Show: Tenebris Somnia – Genre-mixed horror that alternates between 2D retro art and live action, out next month. Wane – My favorite from the show, a roguelike tactics game with an art style that somehow all at once looks like Dishonored, a Remedy…
Lotta discourse going on about Wolverine lately, and I’ll be frank: The problem isn’t that they made a merely adequate Wolverine game. The problem is that they aren’t greenlighting a Xavier Institute for Higher Learning management sim. Someone ring the Two Point Museum people, they’d be perfect.
Lauren has a really nice “to-play” queue in her Steam library. Does anyone else have a running notes app checklist on their phone that they’ve carried across at least one upgrade? How do you keep track of upcoming games you want to play? (Image credit: Future)
I love it when Xalavier Nelson’s Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator sims me a baby whose life is just the experience of the average 40-year-old Battlefield player: GET GUN, LOSE GIRLFRIEND, BE REVIVED THROUGH SCIENTIFICALLY QUESTIONABLE MEANS, PROMOTED TO GENERAL, GET HEADSHOTTED FROM RANGE (Image credit: Strange Scaffold)