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Command & Conquer by Westwood Studios and Virgin Interactive was quite the success story. It was the granddaddy of real-time strategy gaming as we know it today. Sure, another game predates C&C but minor tweaks separated the two by miles. Considering this was released in the mid-1990’s, there is also a heaping helping of Full […]
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Control Troops Wreak Havoc in Command & Conquer – September 26th, 1995 – Today in Video Game History
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Electronic Arts Release Command & Conquer Remastered Collection
June 5th, 2020 Carl Williams Command & Conquer was a unique release in the mid 1990’s. Real Time Strategy (RTS) games were not new, just this game took off with fans. Was it the locale, military themed, or was it the improved approach to the genre? Command & Conquer touched base with many fans and went onto be a massive […]
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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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Humble Bundle Retrogaming Sale September 2020
September 3rd, 2020 Carl Williams With Humble Bundle you can save some cash. What retrogaming fan does not like saving some cash? From classics to more recent classic inspired titles, I have compiled a list of sales for you. I will be updating this list as the month goes on so bookmark it now. If you know of a sale […]
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Verge World New Sega Genesis and Amiga Game in Development
August 21st, 2020 Carl Williams Verge World is an upcoming voxel-based 3D shooter for the Sega Genesis and Commodore Amiga. Interestingly, this is the first voxel-based game for the Sega Genesis. For those wondering, this title shares a similar view to Nintendo’s Star Fox. The difference is the graphics.
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My Favorite Gaming Hidden Gems, Part Three: Metal Marines (1993, SNES)
December 17th, 2017 Michael Crisman Prior to the PlayStation, which got ports of games like Command & Conquer and Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat, military strategy sims are in short supply, and good military strategy sims are rarer than Detroit Lions championship rings. That’s not to say they don’t exist on the 16-bit machines, but task a gamer with […]
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StarCraft Plus Expansion Free Leading Up to HD Remake Release
April 18th, 2017 Carl Williams To say Blizzard is not for their fans is just flat-out wrong. This company has gone out of their way to release some of their past works for free, give free online play, and continue updating their older games decades after release. One such instance is StarCraft, which has just received a major update, been […]
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Advance Wars Shows Nintendo Can Gamify War on Game Boy Advance – September 10th, 2001 – Today in Video Game History
September 9th, 2016 Carl Williams Nintendo and kiddifying things go together quite well. Just look at the Super Smash Brothers series for proof of that. Anyhow, on the Game Boy Advance Nintendo finally saw fit to bring over their turn based strategy games. Advance Wars was the first game in the “wars” series to make it stateside. At least officially […]
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Bandit Gaming- Microsoft Windows 95 is Being Ported to the Nintendo 3DS
January 2nd, 2016 Carl Williams When Microsoft released Windows 95 it heralded in the easier to use computer age. Prior to Windows 95 there had been plenty of attempts to give the Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-DOS) a graphical user interface (GUI). All of those attempts were failures on many levels- most of which was actually getting a significant number […]
