Here’s a thing about me: I get notions. In RPGs, I get very specific images in my head of who I’m playing and how I’m playing them. It’ll be a cold day in hell before you catch me using anything but a revolver and light armour in New Vegas, or dual flintlock pistols (and light…
When most people picture their Apple II or Commodore 64, what really comes to mind are the space shooters and text adventures. These were the early occasions of escapism in its newest form – a digital form. Sometimes, it was casino games. 8-bit home computers actually has gambling software heritage. Built by bedroom coders and…
Category: Games June 4, 2026 Way to the Woods: Going Horns-on With This Indie Gem Ahead of Summer Game Fest Play Days Will Fulton, XBOX Wire Editor I’m no stranger to the ruins of human civilization. From Mad Max to Fallout to The Last of Us, I’ve seen countless visions of post-apocalyptic decay, typically involving…
Little Nightmares! Rollercoaster Tycoon! River City Saga! The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy! Switch eShop – Highlights FINAL FANTASY…
Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve begins with a losing war. After a lightning strike by the Republic of Sotoa, the armed forces of the Federation of Central Usea are struggling to survive — and as an FCU fighter pilot, you’re joining the remnants of a military that’s barely holding on. After playing through several…
Remember the first five minutes of Top Gun: Maverick where Tom Cruise dies in a tragic crash, but not before magically passing his pilot’s spirit and innate talent to the young hotshot who becomes the new Maverick? No? You’re telling me that I just made that up? Well, look: That might be true. But I…
Fancy playing a new Commodore Amiga game that smacks of high quality, is fun to play, and well worth keeping an eye on as developments progress, then this game called ‘Double Baboon Ninja’ by Danlabg is just the game for you. An upcoming Arcade game in which you play as The Double Baboon Ninja’s, and must…
Scratch that. If you picked up a Switch 2 on launch day, then you’ve been caring for your console for almost a whole year now. Compared to those launch-day Switch 1s that some of us still have kicking around, I know that a measly 364 days is small potatoes, but it’s still a mighty long…
“Coming Summer 1996… Exclusively for the Eclipse System 32!”. As much as we all like to pretend to be insusceptible to clever marketing tricks and gimmicks, there are always those rare exceptions where we have to throw our hands up and praise a developer or publisher for coming up with effective ways of standing out…
Time was, you used to have to go places to see videogame events. I’ve been through it myself—a sweltering period in Los Angeles where I spent approximately $6,000 on Ubers and lived off Famous Amos cookies from the hotel vending machine. But it’s the 21st century, and you don’t have to deal with all that….