Blogs about Video games

Episode 27 of the Ted Dabney Experience podcast is available now for your listening pleasure! If you enjoy reading ArcadeBlogger.com, you’ll love the other project I’m involved with: The Ted Dabney Experience Podcast episode 27. …

"You'd Better Check Mr. Popeye, Is Your Switch Running Low?" After a thirteen year hiatus from video games, Popeye the Sailor Man staged his triumphant return to the format... by way of a studio known …

PC, Linux While sorting through my ridiculous Steam backlog, I found myself wandering as far back as 2021 for games I have long intended to look at for Buried Treasure. Between the many misses I …

Idyll is a small social world designed around kinder forms of online conversation. That description alone couldn’t come at a more meaningful time. I’ve been eagerly watching the development of it over Twitter, and have …

Humans love play, and humans are endlessly creative in finding ways to play no matter what. The history of video games is filled with designers finding ways to take interactive formats, no matter how limited, …

https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/af7m38/24-florence-smith-nicholls.mp3 Download “Keywords in Play” is an interview series about game research supported by Critical Distance and the Digital Games Research Association. This epsiode we speak with Florence Smith-Nicholls about the paper “The Dark Souls …

The party gets the whole potion thing figured out. In a recent comment, Adamantyr alerted me to the level of correspondence between Serpent Isle and the Lands of Danger and Despair in the original Ultima. …

Evil Companions Baldur's GateEvil companions are Baldur's Gate companions of Evil alignment in BioWare's cRPG of 1998-2001, Baldur's Gate. Evil companions begin to complain if our reputation starts to rise, and may leave the party …

Warning: this article spoils the ending of Spycraft: The Great Game! On January 6, 1994, Activision announced in a press release that it was “teaming up with William Colby, the former head of the Central …

A modder named TZMWX has done the unthinkable (because why would anyone think of making this) and made a handheld version of the SEGA Saturn, called the SEGA Uranus. It’s currently a prototype but on …

Key art for C-SMASH VRS, the upcoming PSVR2 successor to the 2001 SEGA Naomi cult arcade game Cosmic Smash, whose Dreamcast port I played obsessively in 2002. The game is being developed by RapidEyeMovers, under …

Staying the course Developer: Santos Publisher: Santos Release Date: January 26th, 1996 (title screen says 1995, so this may need to be verified with other sources if possible) Available On: Playstation / PS1 Genre: Shoot …

Tetris Blast Japanese release in March 1995 as Super BomBliss North American release in January 1996 Released in Europe in June 1996 Published by Bullet-Proof Software in Japan Published by Nintendo everywhere else Developed by …

nOS isn’t really a game, but it has a lot of basic operations that a tablet or computer would have, but now you can do those things on your Switch. It has a calculator, picture …

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Booty and the Beasts is a 1979 monster and treasure book from Fantasy Art Enterptises. Art by Erol Otus, text by Otus, Mathias Genser, and Paul Reiche III, A pdf of this book has been …

This game, based on a single-series 1998 anime of (almost) the same name, first caught my eye thanks to its bright yellow case decorated with a neatly arranged collection of the titular Pata Pies. The …

It's very clear that the developers of World Rally Fever loved arcade racing games, especially those of the sprite scaling variety made by SEGA's AM2. They've really gone all the way into capturing the aesthetic …

Dustin Furman joins the show to talk about his journey to executive producer of Last Stand Media. Take a peek behind the curtain of production before Max and Dustin chat about PS VR2 and game …