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A review of Life Is Strange from Boss Fight Books
With a release date of 2015, Life Is Strange is another one of those games that's kind of pushing it in terms of the "retro" designation, although if you've ever seen the game in action, graphics aren't the strong suit and Life Is Strange certainly looks like...
Xi Rao – Student, Curator, Gamer
Xi Rao is a research assistant and PhD student in Technology and Humanities at Illinois Tech. She is interested in social media analysis, information design, as well as fan study. She studies and curates Twitter discussions on games such as #1ReasonWhy and...
Snoop Dogg Debuts Theme for New Backyard Baseball Title, ‘110% Juice’
The song is set to release on digital music outlets on July 15. Multi-platinum recording artist and pop culture icon Snoop Dogg has collaborated with Backyard Baseball’s Playground Productions on the theme track for the game, aptly titled “110% Juice.” "Backyard...
Video Game Trading Card Spotlight – David Klingler
Our next Trading Card Spotlight features David Klingler, who is displayed on card number 416, from the Superstars of 2013. David created an independent software company called Solanimus which has created games such as Signal to Noise and Crashland. You can view his...
Batter Up! Backyard Baseball is Available Now on Steam
Grab Your Gloves! It’s Game Time! The neighborhood baseball classic is back in action! Backyard Baseballis now available on Steam with more ways to play than ever before. Mega Cat Studios and Playground Productions invite you to take the field in 11 remastered...
Silent Hill: The Struggle of Making Good Movies
Judging by the consistent quality of recent movies and television shows, it's clear that we're in a golden age of video game adaptations right now, but decades ago, truly good video game movies were an exception to the rule. In fact, up until the last few years, video...
Steel Ranger 2 – Hessian creators Covert Bitops are working on another fantastic C64 game!
If you've ever heard of Covert Bitops then you would've known they released the fantastic action adventure game ' Hessian ' for the C64 in 2016. A game which blew us away with over 667 screens with specialized AI enemies found throughout that must either be avoided or...
Germany’s Video Game Preservation Project Loses Public Funding
Germany-based, Internationale Computerspielesammlung (ICS), whose goal was to assemble the world's largest publicly accessible video game archive, has lost its public funding, leaving the future of the program in jeopardy, according to the Gameswirtschaft website. ...
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