Blogs about Video games

Written by VetinariNext morning, I wake up to a surprise. The landlady, Mrs Bastable, announces that a visitor, a young lady, is waiting for me in the lounge.Now, I haven't mentioned anything about a landlady …

Our author circa 1962, from the Internet Archive. We last saw Dian Gerard (or Dian Crayne, or J. D. Crayne) with The Hermit’s Secret, as published by Norell Data Systems; she followed up the same …

Much like the prior week, I've done very little actual gaming. I updated and bought my first Playdate game (Lucas Pope's Mars After Midnight). But I've not had much time with work and life. My …

44 years ago (22 May 1980 to be precise), the first Puck Man machine was placed in an arcade in Tokyo’s Shibuya district, starting a worldwide global videogaming phenomenon. Today, Namco’s Pac-Man remains one of …

In light of the fact that Twitter (‘X’) has become completely unusable / untenable for self-promotion over the course of the past year, we’ve discontinued regular posting on that particular social media service. We’ve finally …

PC It never stops blowing my mind that a game this good can go entirely unnnoticed. With zero press coverage, and just 9 Steam reviews, you would imagine Neoproxima is just another shovelware release, and …

Digital toys let us explore a possibility space where art can pulsate, move, degrade, and do strange things with each brush stroke. I often talk about what a missed opportunity it is that mainstream digital …

What kind of life would a dog have at the North Pole? What could a puppy do to help Santa? Under The Fir Tree: The Day of St. Claus (もみの木の下で The Day of St. Claus), …

I’m here to provide a look at the financial side of Critical Distance. In 2022 we needed to run an emergency GoFundMe to fix our tax status, and that’s not a place I want us …

That drawbridge has no chains. How were they ever going to get it up again? In my second entry on Dungeon Hack, I was relatively positive about the game. It was challenging but fast, and …

Shattered Steel by BioWareHistorically, BioWare are most famous for their cRPGs such as Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights. However, their first computer game was not a cRPG, but rather a mech-sim.Shattered Steel is a mech-simulator …

Fair Warning: this article contains plot spoilers for Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge and The Curse of Monkey Island. No puzzle spoilers, however… The ending of 1991’s Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge seems as shockingly …

Square Enix has launched a line of pet apparel called SQEX PETs. It’s Japan only but my favourite has to be the Slime dog bed.

To my knowledge, Kudo was never credited in any Telenet production. The source for this information is this interview (Japanese only) where he states that he had worked there between leaving Konami and joining Square. …

The path already traveled Developer: Sunsoft Publisher: Sega Release Year: March 1989 Available On: Arcade Genre: Run and Gun Bay Route? What kind of name is that? It doesn’t really tell you anything about the …

ESPN National Hockey Night North American release in March 2001 Never released in Japan Never released in Europe Published by Konami Developed by Konami Scott Gomez! Twice! No wait there’s a faint picture of him …

Pepper is an adventurous girl who gets shipwrecked, and pirates steal her treasure! Luckily she finds a drill that she can use to bypass obstacles and defeat enemies. Anyone remember a Game Boy Advance game …

1995 Acclaim Platforms: Commodore Amiga 1200, CD32 Yet another late Amiga conversion, which sadly seems to have fallen by the wayside due to the dwindling market at the time. NBA Jam Tournament Edition was a …

No Rest for the Wicked isn’t your typical action RPG. It throws together a bunch of great ideas from different genres and somehow makes it work, even in its early access state. However, that “early …

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