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The James Pond games were a series of platformer parodies from the 1990s, most notable for the second one’s demo accidentally including the entire game if you used the level-select cheat code. Oops! Nowadays, the rights to James Pond are co-owned by Gameware and System 3. The latter company decided to finally trademark the name…
Infocom is fondly remembered today as the studio responsible for a string of legendary text adventures including the Zork series, The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, A Mind Forever Voyaging, and plenty more. Looking back, the company seems to have been confused about its own strengths, though. While it would be an exaggeration to…
Nexon has confirmed that it has “reorganized” the teams at The First Berserker: Khazan developer Neople, but says the changes were made not because of issues with the game’s performance, but simply “to allocate resources more effectively” across ongoing projects. The reshuffling at Neople was first reported by Korean agency Yonhap (via GamesRadar), which said…
Remember Darkstone? Probably not. It’s one of many Diablo-likes of the 1990s largely forgotten today like Revenant or, er, one of the other examples I could come up with except for the fact I seem to have forgotten them as well. I remember Darkstone because, while a fairly generic fantasy hack-and-slash, it had a few…
Google has removed Doki Doki Literature Club from its Google Play Store due to perceived violations of its Terms of Service. The cult visual novel surprise-released on the storefront in December following its initial PC release in 2017. It’s since been ported to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation and iOS. Doki Doki Literature Club was a phenomenon…
After spending the better part of a year sanding down the edges of Dune: Awakening’s PvP system, Funcom has finally decided to throw in the towel. In a new developer update for April, Funcom said it’s become clear that it needs to “rethink our approach and underline the PvE-first nature of the game,” and so…
Just because a deal is reached to get a movie made doesn’t mean it’ll actually get made. We’ve seen it happen a bunch of times with videogame adaptations, like Just Cause, which was announced in 2011 and Splinter Cell, which was in development way back in 2005. Neither film ever materialized. Enter Metal Gear Solid….
You could build a cozy cabin or recreate an entire Counter-Strike map with World of Warcraft’s player housing tools, but imagine the fun of pulling one over on other players by becoming a table and hiding in plain sight. Blizzard’s huge catalog of household objects are practically begging for a prop hunt mode and it…
Rust went into full release on Steam eight years ago, but its early access debut goes back to 2013—13 whole years ago. In videogame terms, that means it should’ve had at least three sequels by now, but so far? Nothing. Is that about to change? I have no idea, but an all-caps post on Reddit…
Everybody in the Europa Universalis community has spent the last four months worked up about the (admittedly hilarious) glitches that have plagued EU5 since its release, but the real problem with the game is much deeper. I’m an EU4 veteran with 1,700 hours and a world conquest under my belt, and I can attest that…