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Retro games have their place in gaming just as much as contemporary titles. A game's visual style has nothing to do with quality, on both sides of the spectrum -- anything has the potential to be a great experience. Of course...
| Chris Carter |
Final Fantasy IV is easily one of my favorite soundtracks in the series. That's probably because it contains one of my favorite tracks of all time, "Troian Beauty." Square Enix apparently agrees and is re-releasing the long o...
| Jayson Napolitano |
When it launched last year, the PCGamingWiki attempted to solve those technical headaches that can still blight some PC releases. As the current console generation grew longer and longer, the PC had a resurgence as a gaming p...
| Alasdair Duncan |
This week on Sup Holmes we welcome Mike and Vieko of LeGrudge and Rugged, creators of recent indie hit Krunch. We'll be talking to them about what it took to create Krunch (their first game), if the industry is entering ...
| Jonathan Holmes |
C-Wars is coming. With 14 days left to go, the animations-heavy action/strategy choose-your-own-adventure game is already full funded on Kickstarter . That doesn't mean the developers at Onipunks are resting on the ...
| Jonathan Holmes |
The ridiculous Animation Domination YouTube channel puts out a lot of awesome short cartoons. Their latest one is a love letter to the '80s and '90s full of pop culture references, including plenty towards gaming. The chiptune portion of the song was also done by Pete Berkman of Anamanaguchi fame.
| Hamza CTZ Aziz |
[Update: Jools Watsham of Renegade Kid has clarified that 'No' votes do not directly cancel out 'Yes' votes on Greenlight, but it's not clear if 'No' votes have any other impact on a game's chances to make it onto Steam....
| Jonathan Holmes |
A forum poster over on Assembler Games has revealed something that's been in hiding for the last 14 years. Super Magnetic, as he goes by, was a former Sega employee that through a series of unfortunate events, came into the p...
| Hamza CTZ Aziz |
The Angry Video Game Nerd's assault on all things sh*tty and retro will soon break from the confines of live-action footage and into the digital world. Following last week's teaser trailer, here comes pre-alpha gameplay of A...
| Tony Ponce |
With The Cave released and Ron Gilbert departing Double Fine for pastures new, he's had some time to reflect on maybe his most cherished legacy, Monkey Island. In a blog post, Ron speculates how he'd design a new Monkey Islan...
| Alasdair Duncan |
17 minutes of raw gameplay video? Well I certainly hope this becomes more of a trend. You can only tell so much about a game that has quick cuts and dubstep music within a three minute or less trailer. Rise of the Triad thou...
| Hamza CTZ Aziz |
Not too long ago we got our first look at Chasm, a game billed as a "2D fantasy [action] RPG platformer featuring procedurally generated Metroid-like dungeons and authentic pixel art." It's like they took all of the best wor...
| Darren Nakamura |
A lot of people have taken to poo-pooing "retro" graphics, stating that the style has been "played out" in gaming, music, and film thanks to countless attempts to pander to nostalgic 20-30 somethings. Fair enough, ...
| Jonathan Holmes |
Earlier this week, Mike Matei of Cinemassacre shared a video of 50 "deathblows" from popular and not so popular NES titles. He had originally intended to compose a list of his favorite final boss deaths from the NES era, but...
| Tony Ponce |

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