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Support Romeo Is A Dead Man if you want Suda51 to keep making games
Maybe it's panicking about nothing, but some red flags have gone up around Grasshopper Manufacture's newest project, Romeo is a Dead Man. Could Netease dropping as the publisher spell certain doom? It might!
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Changing The Game – Talking to My Boy About Videogames 17
Do you want more of the same or things to be vastly different? It’s the question central to today’s episode of Talking to My Boy About Videogames where Jonathan and Ryan look at Metroid Prime 4: Beyond and Blippo+, two games set on alien worlds that introduce the audience to their setting through exploration and perception. Elsewhere in the episode,…
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Review – Dead Format
I'm a sucker for film-inspired live-action sequences in games, and Dead Format has them in spades. Building a horror game around various movie aesthetics sounds like a boffo idea, but when you add a vulture into the mix, that changes things.
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Preview – Restory
I love the smell of solder fumes in the morning. That's why Restory is right up my alley. It recognizes the meditative quality of refurbishing old hardware and crams it into a nice cozy package.
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A Minecraft Movie – The Spin-Off Doctors Spin-Off
This post is a part of the Spin-Off Doctors Spin-Off series. When was the last time you played Minecraft, the best selling video game of all time? If you’re over 30, it’s probably been a long time but if you’re under 20 it may be part of your daily routine. For the Spin-Off Doctors Spin-Off collective, we’re all much too…
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Maximum Utcast – 10 – Crossing Into Alternate Worlds
We’re stepping into an alternate reality on this episode of the Maximum Utcast where Jonathan Holmes talks to John-Charles Holmes about the game Blippo+ where you watch TV from another dimension. But before that, Zoey tells us about finally beating the professional beetles in Beetle Adventure Racing. Then we debut our new permanent segment on the show, The Duke Nukem…
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Review – Blood: Refreshed Supply
This seems familiar. Not even a year after I played through Blood: Fresh Supply, Nightdive is back with an updated version. I wish someone would have warned me. Maybe I should ask them next time I'm thinking about starting a '90s shooter.
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Preview – Nova Roma
With the wonders of modern technology, you can build Rome in a day. Try it in Nova Roma, a new survival City-Builder set in, you know, Roman times. Here's a look at its upcoming public demo!
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Let’s give thanks for the life and work of Rebecca “Burger Becky” Heineman
This month, we lost one of the foundational members of the art form. We say good-bye to Rebecca "Burger Becky" Heineman by taking a look at her life. Not just her career, but the person she was.
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Joysticks – Spin-Offs Classic
On this Blackest of Fridays, let’s turn our attention to the darkest corner of depravity the human mind can conceive–an arcade from 1983. Revisiting older media is often problematic for a variety of reasons, but perhaps there is no other piece of old videogame media more problematic than 1983’s Joysticks, an 80’s sex-comedy in the vein of Ski School or…
