“The Unmistakable Stench Of Bullsh*t” – No, Golden Axe Doesn’t Feature Screams From Death Row Inmates

Did you fall for this one? Back in 2013, Twitter user VGFGamers posted with supreme confidence that “all of the voices in arcade hacking-and-slashing game Golden Axe were performed by American prisoners on death row.” Three years later on the same platform, vipgamesaus repeated the same claim almost word-for-word – and this has been reproduced…

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“The More You Take Off, The Stronger You Become” – Gainax’s NSFW ‘Battle Skin Panic’ Gets Translated And Legally Re-Released

Now available on Manga Gamer. Originally released in 1990, Battle Skin Panic is a card-battling game in which a selection of girls engage in “undressing battles” using the “ancient kung-fu technique Rasin-Kassatsu-Ken.” First released for the PC-8801 in 1990 and ported to the PC-9821 in 1993, the game was developed by animation studio Gainax, famous…

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Retro Review: Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen

The first major expansion for the “Dragon’s Dogma” series, “Dark Arisen” comes with plenty of new weapons and enemies. For those who haven’t played the series yet, Capcom provides the type of title here that like an “Elder Scrolls,” “Fallout” or “Diablo” fan can quickly get attached to. But unlike the afformentioned games, regardless of…

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Quake Gets New Levels for 30th Anniversary

According to an official press release from Bethesda, the classic 1996 FPS, Quake, is receiving a brand new episode called “Dawn of the Machine. This update, which is free for owners of the recent Quake remaster on platforms like PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. In addition to 19 new levels, the anniversary update offers fresh achievements, multiplayer…

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