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With the holidays here, Steam and the Nintendo eShop are filled their digital stores with lots of new titles, ready to be purchased with those newly required gift cards. Traditionally, that means this week doesn’t ...

The Touhou Project began with a collection of meticulously-coded bullet-hell shooters, or danmaku. Coded by a former Taito programmer who operated under the moniker of Team Shanghai Alice, the games earned distinction not just for the ...

All too often, sequalization is motivated by money rather than any earnest attempt at artistic expression. Perhaps that seems like an excessively cynical perspective, but I’ve seen far too many follow-ups that either offer only ...

The Disappearance of Pinball In 2007, Budapest-based Zen Studios released their first virtual pinball title. At the time, physical machines were growing increasingly difficult to find. Arcades were on the wane, and most remaining amusement ...

History Class on Mild Hallucinogens Chances are, you might have heard of Sir Walter Raleigh’s attempts to colonize America. After getting caught secretly marrying one of Queen Elizabeth’s ladies-in-waiting, Raleigh hoped to make amends with ...

From the re-appearance of Untitled Goose Game, Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi’s next bold effort and a card game where the change the rules as you play, mid-December is offering up some remarkably offbeat titles. ...

Not Just a Chip Off the Old Block With vibrant visuals built with voxel technology, Riverbond could be mistaken for yet another Minecraft clone. But developer Cococucumber isn’t interested in subjecting players to another derivative ...

Across the eighties, Games Workshop co-founder Ian Livingstone wrote eleven single-player adventure gamebooks. Each built upon the basic framework of Bantam Books’ popular Choose Your Own Adventure series that delivering branching storylines, where different decisions ...

Video games have a multitude of positive attributes, but one of the medium’s best traits is the simulation of ability. In real life, I didn’t have the training, talent, or dedication to be anything more ...

With titles like Alien: Isolation, Assassin’s Creed: The Rebel Collection, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition and Star Ocean First Departure R, Switch owners are privy to another week of notable ports. Meanwhile ...