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Review – Blood: Fresh Supply
I love Ken Silverman’s Build Engine. I toyed around with it when I was a kid, and I recall a period in early adulthood where I dove into its inner workings, as well as Silverman’s other projects. It is the perfect 2.5D engine, with the right balance of limitations and sophistication. But I only really played Duke Nukem 3D. Well,…
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Amazing rodent serfdom management game, Whiskerwood, has a new trailer
You know those games that look so good, you figure something is going to be botched? I get that feeling quite often, and Whiskerwood is one of those instances. It has a new trailer as part of the PC Gaming Show pre-show (I’m told, I’m not watching these things this year. I earned a break), and it’s showing off further…
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Hardware Review – 8BitDo Retro R8 Mouse
I love 8BitDo’s stuff. I own a lot of stuff from them. From retro wireless controller adapters to actual wireless retro controllers, you’ll find a lot of them around my apartment. In particular, my arcade stick by them and legally distinct Genesis and SNES controllers get a tonne of use. I even had to replace the sticks on my SF30…
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Preview – Ground of Aces
The cancellation (or “indefinite hiatus”) of Jumplight Odyssey absolutely bites. League of Geeks folding is a huge loss, but Jumplight Odyssey was aiming to fill a massive hole that I don’t think anyone even realized was there. It was like the good half of Super Dimension Fortress Macross adapted into a management game. And it’s never going to happen. Who…
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Review – The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
When The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion launched in 2006, it was a big deal. The new console generation had just been ushered in by the Xbox 360, and the promised new experiences that the hardware enabled were coming out of the gate. Oblivion showed off lush forests like we’d never seen before, and that’s all I needed to know. More…
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Preview – The Drifter
For a genre that supposedly died in the ‘90s, the point-and-click adventure genre is pretty lively. Even adjacent adventure formulas have been getting a lot of love. It’s to the point where there’s so many, and it’s such a niche genre, that I experience choice paralysis and wind up playing nothing. But I liked what The Drifter was putting down,…
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Review – Four Last Things
I’m more of a modern art appreciator. People being good at, like, depicting nature and stuff is cool and all, but it’s the weird stuff that speaks to my soul. I’m sorry if you thought I was sophisticated and that shatters the illusion. So, someone hacking up some renaissance paintings and gluing them back together like a ransom note is…
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Interview – The unabridged Cosmo D discussion
I did a professional-like summary of my interview with Cosmo D. Real professional, like something you’d read in Time Magazine. Not that I read Time Magazine, so I actually have no idea what their interviews are like. But maybe that wasn’t enough for you. Maybe you’re curious about everything that Cosmo D said to me. I’m not going to give…
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Interview – Cosmo D talks pizza and the cheese in the trunk (abridged)
Having played through and reviewed Cosmo D’s whole catalogue, I thought the appropriate place to cap it off would be to talk to the man himself. If you haven’t checked the coverage out, you can find them here: Off-PeakThe Norwood SuiteTales from Off-Peak City Vol 1.Betrayal at Club LowMove of the Diamond Hand It was pretty easy to come up…
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Review – WCW vs. nWo: World Tour
I've been watching old WCW, usually in another window while I write. If nothing else, it adds a lot of context to AKI's first two N64 wrestling games. Now I know who all these muscular people are.
