It may have been over a decade since its launch, but The Wolf Among Us remains one of my core gaming experiences. The Wolf Among Us Remastered is the definitive edition of the game, adding a new Noir mode that turns the thriller into a black-and-white experience. This release also includes an hour of bonus content, such as cast interviews,…
The Steam page for GMedia’s Edgar Allan Poe’s Interactive Horror: 1995 Edition has gone live. It faithfully restores Inscape’s cult classic game, The Dark Eye. GMedia describes the original title as an avant-garde masterpiece, one of the most unique and disturbing experiences of the CD-Rom era. The restoration brings the…
Sacred 2 Remaster is such a hot mess of a hot mess…
Vertical-scrolling shoot ‘em up Mamorukun ReCurse! is getting a modern remaster, and…
I just wrote about a remake in the works with Romance of the Three Kingdoms 8 Remake; remasters and remakes are definitely the rage right now, because I’ve got another one for you. Rainbow Cotton is getting a remaster, set to launch worldwide next year. The “cute ’em up” game,…
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I swear, I can’t get through a day without talking about a remastered version of an older title being released! Today, the news is about Xuan-Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains, the third instalment in the series. The classic pixel art turn-based RPG was first released in 1999. The game…
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Developer, Sting, has announced a remaster of Riviera: The Promised Land. This is genuinely exciting because Riviera is a true cult classic, and a remake is long overdue. One of the more interesting qualities of this game is that you don’t really have free movement around the world. Rather, it…
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Crisis Core is one of the better efforts to take a beloved classic video game (in this case, Final Fantasy VII) and build on it. In this case, it’s a prequel. It’s a depiction of the leadup to the legendary events that feature Cloud and his team, and is so…
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It might be a remake of a remake, but Tactics Ogre Reborn is one of the greatest games of its genre. It effectively established the genre, many years ago, and has barely lost anything in the years since. I have to hope that Square Enix has prepared this release to…
Read More“Whimsy” is the dominant word to describe the experience across the two titles in the Klonoa Phantasy Reverie collection. In so many ways these two games represent the platforming genre at its most perfect, with intricately entertaining levels wrapped up with a charming efficiency of character and design. It’s a…
Read MoreBack in 2007, Nippon Ichi and Vanillaware collaborated on a game called GrimGrimoire. It was actually the very first game that the Vanillaware created under its current label, and it represented so much of what we have come to love about the company; its eye for incredible 2D art and…
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