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A vintage classic from 1999 is undergoing a complete remake. This treat for lovers of the genre was announced in the summer of 2020 by two partners. Dotemu, the French publisher whose mission is to revive retro games on modern platforms, has teamed up with developer Triskell Interactive. They are working to bring back “the […]
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Nintendo Switch Getting Liberated in June
May 20th, 2020 
Carl Williams Liberated is a new graphic novel come to life in the tech-noir genre. This is a new take on the idea of a visual novel. At least the way we think of them right now. The interaction you have in the game is very comic book based. The closest I can think to this is […]
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Could Nintendo Be Preparing the Super Nintendo Mini?
December 27th, 2016 Carl Williams Nintendo is renewing rights to classic hardware, including the Super Nintendo controller. Could this be the early rumblings that the Nintendo Super NES Classic Mini is on its way?
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Review – Sam Mallard Case of the Missing Swan for the ZX Spectrum
October 22nd, 2016 Carl Williams Text adventures and I go way back. From classics like Zork to The Hobbit to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, I have enjoyed text adventures for almost three decades now. Then came the graphical text adventure which The Hobbit could be viewed as an early precursor of, and it was only getting better in […]
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Dollhouse coming to the Playstation 4, PC, Mac and Linux, Horror Fans Prepare
August 13th, 2015 Carl Williams Horror. This is a genre that has not exactly been able to take off with gaming. Sure, titles like Resident Evil are promoted as “survival horror” but there is not much “horror” to be had in that whole series (the dogs is one of the few scare moments I remember). Horror games are in a […]
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Film Noir Gaming Brings Cyber Punk Action Shadowrun to the Super Nintendo – May 1st 1993 – Today in History
May 2nd, 2015 Carl Williams Shadowrun was an interesting title for the Super Nintendo (Sega’s version is COMPLETELY different). Partly because it predated the “Play it Loud” campaign by a full year. This game also had quite a few mature elements to it. For starters your guy just got axed/murdered/is dead. Shadowrun is also unique in that it was a […]
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Re-Release- Classic Macintosh Adventure Games Brought to Steam for Windows Retrogamers to Enjoy
January 31st, 2015 Carl Williams It is a good day to be a retrogaming fan as several classic Macintosh point and click adventure games have just been released onto Steam. Zojoi, the developer of these titles, has ported them to Windows and newer Macintosh platforms. Amongst the titles brought over only one will not be familiar to Nintendo Entertarinment System […]
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Revenge of the License: A Sound of Thunder
November 2nd, 2014 Michael Crisman Video games based on film licenses are nothing more than excuses for some two-bit studio to make an enormous influx of money without resorting to looting armored cars or Nigerian prince email scams, right? Wanton cash grabs by game studios leading to sub-par software and the occasional bankrupting of an entire industry have been with […]
