Shiren The Wanderer didn’t quite invent the traditional roguelike genre, but this long-running, rarely localized Japanese series sure as heck came to define it: Environments have to be grid-based Everything must be scavenged from monster-filled dungeons. And above all else, a true Shiren game (and thus a true old school roguelike) must be challenging, and…
“We’re back from the dead, rising like a phoenix,” says Alex Hutchinson, creative director of Revenge of the Savage Planet. Five years ago, the first—and unexpectedly last—game of Hutchinson’s former studio, Typhoon, Journey to the Savage Planet, was a bit of a cult hit. It was a fun first-person bop across an alien world, with…
Exodus didn’t do much for me when it was first revealed at the 2023 Game Awards, but my interest in it started to grow after Matthew McConaughey began dropping daily Exodus trailers like some kind of deep space David Attenborough. Today we got our first look at some actual Exodus gameplay, and I hate to…
The rumors that Grand Theft Auto 6 and Half-Life 3 were going to be at The Game Awards were obviously bogus (for reasons I’ll elaborate on below), but I admit that the serious ‘I heard this from industry sources’ tone of the social media posts briefly had me doubting my certainty. Of course, neither game…
2.4GHz wireless connectivity! Bluetooth! Hall sticks! The GameCube has a reputation for being a fighting game console, thanks mainly to the fact that Super Smash Bros. Melee exists on it. There are also titles like Soulcalibur II and Capcom vs. SNK 2: EO on the system, so you can see the wisdom in positioning a…
Category: Games December 17, 2024 Managing Your Pirate Crew in Flint: Treasure of Oblivion Clotaire Jacquier, Microids Enter the golden age of piracy with the tactical RPG Flint: Treasure of Oblivion, the first title from studio Savage Level. The game features five chapters that take players from the town of Saint-Malo in France to ancient…
It’s almost Christmas, which means Santa is coming to distribute presents to all the good little children—and, somewhat weirdly, put coal in the stockings of kids who have been “bad.” Look, Santa is an immortal Elflord, it is not for us to understand his motives. But there’s one place even naughty kids are rewarded by…
The MSX title was originally released back in 1983. Nisso’s MSX rescue action game Aqua Polis SOS is coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop later this week, as part of D4 Enterprise’s EGGCONSOLE label. Originally released in 1983 for MSX computers, the single-screen arcade-style game tasks players with piloting a submarine to the bottom of…
Despite the 500 hours of playtime I’ve accrued over the years, I’ve always been a pretty casual Path of Exile player. In PoE, 500 hours is rookie numbers: The infamous sprawl of its passive skill tree and labyrinthine gear crafting mechanics still border on the unfathomable to me. For players who aren’t instinctively horrified by…
Hot on the heels of apparent confirmation of a monstrous 32 GB RTX 5090 GPU from Nvidia comes news that the world’s most valuable company might be plotting a major AI-enhanced upgrade that brings in-game graphics a major step closer to fully AI-rendered graphics. In other words, games that are no longer rendered by a…