We’ve got a theme going on this week – all retro, all episode! We kick things off by talking about games that haven’t held up well at all (yes, GoldenEye 007. We go there). We also then talk about the sad demise of Emuparadise as an archive of the classics……
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Labyrinth of Refrain is a Nippon Ichi-developed dungeon crawler that melds that company’s love of fairy tales (think Witch and the Hundred Knight) with the first person dungeon crawler (think Wizardry). Think enough about that combination and you’ll quickly realise that this is one exciting prospect.…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. I already have RPG Maker MV on my PC, and that version lets people delve into the code and export commercial projects for PC… and even iPad if you so wish. And yet I can’t wait to get into RPG Maker MV on Nintendo Switch. Much…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. It is hard to believe that the original Guacamelee! came out five years ago. The amazing 2D platformer that took inspiration from things as wide-ranging as Mexican culture and the Metroid series is still one of the best finest games in the past decade. Thankfully, Guacamelee!…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Bad North’s description: “minimalistic, real-time tactics roguelite,” sounds like it’s the latest in the ongoing irritating habit that indie developers have to throw every buzzword they can think of into their descriptions. It’s almost always a desperate bid to try and make their game stand out…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Well, here’s a delightful bit of news. Grandia and Grandia II are coming to Nintendo Switch. As HD remasters no less. And they’ll be available in “Winter”, or Summer for those of us in the southern hemisphere, which means, likely, early next year. Both Grandia and…
Read MoreNews by Lindsay M. The Life Is Strange 2 reveal trailer is finally here, and we’ll get to that… but first, the most important LIS2 news of the day: Jonathan Morali is returning to compose an original soundtrack for the game, which will be supported by a new licensed soundtrack.…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. R.A Salvatore, the author of the Dungeons & Dragons Drizzt Do’Urden novels, is not one of the great philosophers of all time, but his books always have a bit of philosophical reflection in them to open each chapter. His reflections on nostalgia, found in one of…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Space Hulk: Tactics, in development by the ever-reliable Cyanide (Blood Bowl demonstrating that the team understands how to do Games Workshop), is looking like it might just be one of the best release based on a Games Workshop property in quite some time. Now we have…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. Nostalgia-bait is all the rage at the moment, across seemingly every medium. From Stranger Things to that Ghostbusters reboot to all those NES-style retro platformers at keep popping up, there’s this fixation on ’80s pop culture. When those references work in concert with the narrative to…
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