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Earlier this week I reported that a Russian fan was able to collect everything needed for Warcraft Adventures and released it. This was an unreleased point and click adventure title by Blizzard, planned for release about 18 years ago. Warcraft Adventures was cancelled and that was thought to be the end of it. That is […]
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Blizzard Answers Fans with Diablo II on PC – June 29th, 2000 – Today in Video Game History
June 28th, 2016 
Carl Williams When Blizzard released the original Diablo it was a completely different time in gaming. Internet was just becoming a thing that everyday people had access to. Magazines still ruled so it was required to get early builds of the game out to publications. Gamers had a slightly lower expectation of games on PC. That did […]
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Inazuma Eleven 2: Blizzard—Soccer Ball Z
August 9th, 2015 Adam Nelon Ah, Association Football—the sport of the world. Known to most simply as Football (except in countries like Australia and the United States, which both refer to it as Soccer for the sake of not confusing it with their own respective versions of Football), it is a remarkably simple game which has often been seen as […]
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Free Game: Rock ‘n Roll Racing by Blizzard
May 3rd, 2014 Carl Williams Any company that takes it upon themselves to release their older titles as freeware should be commended and celebrated. That is why I am writing this post, separate from The Lost Vikings (another game Blizzard has given away recently). Rock ‘n Roll Racing is a different beast altogether from the puzzle action game that Blizzard […]
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Free Game: The Lost Vikings from Blizzard
May 3rd, 2014 Carl Williams Free games are free games. Great retro titles that are now free are even better. Blizzard has already given away Blackthorne on their Battle.net service and recently they added a couple of other titles, Rock and Roll Racing and The Lost Vikings. These are older games that Blizzard owns from their time as “Silicon & […]
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Retro gamers will get a free social gaming platform with Piepacker
April 22nd, 2021 Carl Williams A free and legal online platform will soon be available to all fans of retro games. Just register on Piepacker, invite your friends, and start playing. No downloads, no subscriptions, completely hassle-free: open it on Chrome, and you are good to go. The multiplayer architecture is enhanced by a video chat function that also allows […]
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Diablo 2 Resurrected Brings Original Plus Expansion into Modern Era
February 19th, 2021 Carl Williams Fans of Diablo were probably sort of blindsided when Diablo, plus the Hellfire expansion, appeared on GoG. a while back. Well get ready to be flat out floored. Diablo 2 plus the Lord of Destruction expansion are in the process of being remade in 3D. Even better, Vicarious Visions are handling the development of this […]
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Diablo Pits Gamers Against Hell – January 3rd, 1997 – Today in Video Game History
January 3rd, 2021 Carl Williams Diablo is one of those few games that made you proud to be a computer gamer. There were not many that made console gamers jealous, Blizzards Rogue-like was one of them. It joined the ranks of Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Command & Conquer, and a few flight sims. Even Rogue was a PC exclusive for most […]
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Diablo GoG Edition Review
April 10th, 2019 Carl Williams How do you review a veritable classic? There are not many titles that fit this category – Super Mario 3, Pac-Man, Doom, etc are all classics that even non-gamers know about. Diablo is another title that fits that genre rather nicely. I know that term is quite subjective but for a lot of gamers, these […]
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Spyro Reignited Trilogy PlayStation Xbox Bound
April 6th, 2018 Carl Williams Spyro is the one franchise that a lot of fans were calling for when the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy was announced. Well, for all those fans that wanted it, come September this year, you will get your wish. If you own a PlayStation 4 or Microsoft Xbox One console (Nintendo Switch fans, sorry). Spyro […]
