Hello, PlayStation Faithful! My name is Brandon Ulm, Lead Designer at Pipeworks Studio — and I’m proud to announce on behalf of 505 Games and Pipeworks that our underground poker game Prominence Poker has finished development and hits PS4 on August 23! The game is a free-to-play, multiplayer Poker RPG where players experience the thrills…
The PlayStation 2 has so many games. The PlayStation 2 has so many good games. So how do you choose? Old School Gamer’s Patrick Hickey Jr. shares some fun ones you might have missed. Fire Pro Wrestling Returns: This game already has a niche audience, but without a pro wrestling license and Agetec (a bargain…
There’s a lot going on in games that we’re not supposed to see, such as the invisible bunnies that make World of Warcraft work. In the case of hit RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, it turns out that some of those dramatic cutscenes are happening in the midst of unseen limb chaos, as evidenced by…
PC games have been foisting tricky decisions on players since back in 1985 when Ultima 4 made us navigate a moral compass with eight different spokes to prove we were Britannia’s best boy. But the Big Decision Era really kicked off in 2003 when Knights of the Old Republic made us pick between the light…
Finding a ‘conventional’ keyboard in the world of mechanical options can be a bit difficult, especially if you want to please both mainstream folks and us weirdos who find building their own options a fun way to spend a Saturday afternoon. However, one of Drop’s most recent additions to their burgeoning lineup of great keyboards,…
The release of Valve’s Steam Deck has supercharged the portable PC gaming scene. It harkened changes to Steam that have allowed it to flourish in the Switch-like form factor, welcoming in a new generation of handheld gaming computers and now the Steam Deck OLED. With more competition on the rise, Valve has remained committed to…
Old School Gamer Magazine chats with “Ground Zero Hero” developer Rowan Edmondson, who details the creative journey behind the upcoming game. About Ground Zero Hero: Featuring a vibrant hand-drawn art style inspired by The Simpsons and Rick and Morty, Ground Zero Hero challenges players to explore a post-apocalyptic wasteland as they face off against massive…
Balatro has announced the new Friends of Jimbo card pack, available now, which in its breadth and range show that the poker roguelike is basically becoming the indie Fortnite. The new cards include designs from Civilization, Assassin’s Creed, Fallout, Critical Role, Dead by Daylight, Slay the Princess, Bugsnax and Rust. As one wag puts it…
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su says the company’s CPU sales have “far exceeded my expectations in terms of demand.” That’s the good news. The more ambivalent addendum, at least for we mere PC gamers, is that you can probably guess why AMD CPU sales are going gangbusters. Rejoice, because it is of course AI. “We’re…
There’s one thing all videogame adaptations in film and TV have in common: they stink. Or at least, that’s how it felt for a long time—personally, I stopped adding the caveat ‘good for a videogame adaptation’ after I watched the Fallout show and learned these things didn’t have to be somewhere between middling and godawful….