Android-based consoles, such as those Anbernic produce, are made for an application that is obvious: Emulation. By extension, that means they facilitate piracy, and that tends to make the games industry’s suit people mad. However, it is also because of devices like these that the indie scene flourishes with new games developed for the Game Boy, GBA, and 32-bit systems.…
The movie tie-in game is something of a dying art, but in many ways you would have to rule it death by way of suicide. The very model for movie games ensured that they would die out. This was never terribly surprising; classically speaking, lots of money got spent getting…
When Square Enix revealed the Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, there was…
Let’s face it, most of the early Mortal Kombat games are not…
There are few things that I enjoy more than a good retro games collection. Sure, emulation exists and it’s not going anywhere any time soon, but as someone who creates for a living, I do like the idea of supporting other creators by actually buying their creations. In the retro…
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It’s been quite the year for fans of niche JRPG properties. First, there was the Suikoden collection a month ago, and now it’s Lunar’s turn. Originally released for the Sega Mega CD, the first two titles in the series were pioneering and beloved titles that somehow never converted into something…
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First released in 1996 for PC and Mac, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream has won several awards, including Best Dark Game of 1996 from Digital Hollywood and Best Game Adapted from Linear Media from the Computer Game Developers Conference (now just Game Developers Conference, or GDC, which…
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The games we play when we’re young absolutely do shape our appreciation of gaming when we’re older. If you had asked me when I was about 14 what the best game in the world was, the answer would have been easy. Bubble Bobble, and obviously that’s still scientifically true, but…
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There was a time when the 3D platformer was one of the most creative genres out there. Driven by the delight that people had for Mario 64, Banjo Kazooie, and others, developers fell over themselves to try to carve out their own niche with quirky, different ideas. Most of those…
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If you were to try and narrow the entire range of TCGs out there down to the “big three”, you’d surely land on Magic the Gathering, Pokemon TCG, and Yu-Gi-Oh!. Of those three, Yu-Gi-Oh is the one that has relied the most on console video games to build the fanbase.…
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I consider myself pretty well-versed in video games. I’ve reviewed more games on DDNet alone than most people play in a lifetime, after all. I’m also a massive fan of retro games and spend a big chunk of my time playing stuff from the year 2000 and before. So every…
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Some of you are probably wondering: “What is a Sugoro?” Well, it’s easy to explain. Sugoroku is a classic Japanese board game where players roll the dice to move their pawns from the start of the board to the goal. There are many takes on Sugoroku in video games, including…
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Grizzly Man is the fourth title in LCB Game Studio’s Pixel Pulps series, beginning a second trilogy titled “Pixel Pulps DTV Collection.” (DTV is short for direct-to-video.) It is a psychedelic slasher game about a former MIB agent who was severely injured in a mysterious attack, waking up with full…
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Tetris Forever is, in one sense, not really a collection of games for Tetris fans. The game library includes multiple different versions of Tetris, which is more like a Tetris spin-off than actual Tetris. There are also three different versions of Hatris, which is categorically not Tetris at all. There’s…
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