Blogs about Video games

Doki Doki Poyatchio (どきどきポヤッチオ) Developer: Studio Sanzensan/M2 Release Date: 1998 Platforms: PlayStation This article is part of our Japanese Obscurities feature. We put out a whole book about them, which is available as both a …

Apple’s iOS has a feature called Assistive Access designed for people with cognitive disabilities such as elderly parents. Thanks to CharlesW on HN.

The Future is Now # In the Virtual Reality game Beat Saber, imaginary light blades emanate from the handles of your baton-like physical controllers. The notes that float directly towards you are represented by alternating …

Apple recently changed the App Store rules to allow emulators, which means we’re now seeing emulators for classic video game consoles available for download! This is great news for a retro gamer like myself. Delta …

One of the other participants in the game jam I joined produced a Game Boy adventure called OuttaTime. You can try it yourself in your browser here: https://jhample.itch.io/outta-time.It’s a short game—only two levels—but given the …

Je suis heureux de vous annoncer que Monte-Cristo, ma trilogie de bande dessinée qui transpose le classique d'Alexandre Dumas dans l'Amérique de l'après 11 septembre avec de splendides illustrations de Mario Alberti, paraîtra en anglais …

As much as I love fresh digital releases of very old games played through a competent emulator packed with every modern convenience I can think of, there’s just something special about seeing a game physically …

Vertical Force is one of those rare games for a console with a big gimmick that not only exists to shoehorn in the use of that gimmick, but is also just a decent game that …

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Improvements are made to graphics, the Lua API, and the user interface. We present the winners of the 2023 Game Jam along with other cool mods. A new core developer joins the team, and we …

Hey y’all, just a short point of order: You should go get the Palestinian Relief Bundle over at Itch.io. Not only is it an incredible bundle of 373 independently-made games, books and other pieces of …

A qange of bug fixes and quality of life improvements have arrived with Expeditions: A MudRunner Game Update 3 available now across all platforms. Some of the biggest changes include Freeroam unlocking after the first …

The Holy Vessel of the Security Forces of The Line, christened Inevitably Successful in All Circumstances, cut through space and time, arriving in the Real just outside orbit of agri-world 3B-L02. The world’s planetary overseers …

There’s been a couple more games I’ve played through in my backlog since my blogging about Little Nemo and The Guardian Legend. Next on my sights was a game that I’d wanted to play through …

For me, the most important thing an RPG can do is make its setting feel like a real world inhabited by real people. Having recently played Star Ocean: The Divine Force and Star Ocean: The …

Botany Manor is a 3 hour first person puzzle game about growing plants while exploring a big beautiful fancy house that smells like British Bake-Off.The main design inspiration here is obviously Gone Home, with a …

My GDC 2024 talk Revisiting Fun: 20 Years of a Theory of Fun is now posted here. [Edit: GDC has posted the video up for free on the GDCVault.] Once again, I had a lot …

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 …

In 1989, Konami released an arcade game based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. Everything about it was tailored to the source material. In the cartoon, there are four ninja turtles, who usually fight …

Super Mario 3D World contains an unlockable version of Mario Bros. (particularly the NES version) that replaces Mario with a second Luigi, called “Luigi Bros.”Curiously, the Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury files for …