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A review of Dragon Age II from Boss Fight Books
By Charlotte Reber's own admission, Dragon Age II is a somewhat counterintuitive choice for a Boss Fight book. After all, Dragon Age: Origins is the main famous, well-regarded game of the series, a fantasy epic role-playing game in the Bioware house style that...
Retro Review: RBI Baseball 16
From the trademark score and sound effects to the simple and addictive gameplay, the RBI Baseball series was legendary on the Nintendo Entertainment System and even had some cool moments on the Super Nintendo and Genesis. In the end though the story remains the same....
Testing the M64: Xibalba 64
If you've never heard of the original Xibalba, that's not too surprising. The 2014 browser game from Phobos Lab is a weird little artifact of its era, a chonky retro styled Doom clone premised around the Mayan underworld. The blocky aesthetic exists alongside...
Retro Review: Wii Sports Club
It’s hard to topple a giant and make no mistake, “Wii Sports” is a monster of humongous proportions. The best selling game of all time, “Wii Sports” changed video gaming forever and seven years later on the Wii U, “Wii Sports Club” makes those classic games even...
Testing the M64: Xeno Crisis
With the release of the M64, most hobbyists concern themselves with the technical aspects of the machine. How does it compare to the Analogue 3D, or original Nintendo 64 hardware? Worthwhile questions to be sure, but I prefer to try and evaluate the console on...
Xevious 128k – Arcade classic Xevious gets a 128k edition for the Amstrad CPC via Easter Egg
There's one type of genre that I loved playing in the arcades and more so on my home console, and that is the shoot em up genre! You know the type, enemy waves coming at you at all sides, your ship blasting across the landscape with adrenaline flowing as you try to...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – Jerry Buckner
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features Jerry Buckner, who currently is displayed on card number 1345, from the Superstars of 2014 Collection. Jerry is also featured on cards 1832, 1981, 2388. As a musician and producer, Jerry Buckner created many memorable music...
Before LucasArts Took Control: The Wild First Decade of Star Wars Games
Today, a Star Wars game arrives carrying decades of expectations. Players know what a lightsaber should sound like and how an X-wing should move. The earliest Star Wars games had none of that inherited design language. During the franchise’s first decade in video...
This Day In Video Game History
