Good Old Games
What Can We Do to Preserve Gaming’s Past?
November 23, 2018 | Christopher GatesGaming has a nostalgia problem.
Not nostalgia itself, of course. There’s plenty we can still learn from older titles, and fun is fun no matter how old a game might be. That’s why, when the Internet Archive launched The … Read More
GOG officially supports Windows 8
November 27, 2012 | Daniel SacdpraseuthSo, Good Old Games now officially supports Microsoft’s new OS. According to GOG, 431 of their titles are fully compatible with Windows 8. Some of the ones that didn’t work with Windows 7 now do, although they don’t specify which. … Read More
Good Old Games Doing Things
October 19, 2012 | Daniel SacdpraseuthGood Old Games now supports Mac! Hooray, I guess. I don’t have a Mac (and I don’t think we even have a Mac games category), but yay! Multiplatform support is always good. A bunch of the games that support Mac … Read More
News
Can Dreams Ever Be as Successful as Minecraft?
February 16, 2020 | Matthew Byrd
It’s sometimes annoying to start every conversation about Dreams with an explanation about what Dreams is. Then again, Deams is so ambitious and unique that you really have to make sure that everyone is on the same page whenever … Read More
Can E3 Live On as a Video Game Fan Convention?
February 13, 2020 | Matthew Byrd
This week made it clearer than it ever has been before that E3 is not (and maybe never will be again) the event that it once was.
This week, video game presenter and personality Geoff Keighley announced that he … Read More
Steam Can Now Help You Decide What To Play
February 13, 2020 | Robert Endyo
Today Steam announced the “Play Next” experiment that uses an algorithm to help you decide what games you should play. This process uses similar technology to the Interactive Recommender Valve released some time ago. While I’ve … Read More
Articles
Can Dreams Ever Be as Successful as Minecraft?
February 16, 2020 | Matthew Byrd It’s sometimes annoying to start every conversation about Dreams with an explanation about what Dreams is. Then again, Deams is so ambitious and unique that you really have to make sure that everyone is on the same page whenever … Read More
Steam Can Now Help You Decide What To Play
February 13, 2020 | Robert Endyo Today Steam announced the “Play Next” experiment that uses an algorithm to help you decide what games you should play. This process uses similar technology to the Interactive Recommender Valve released some time ago. While I’ve … Read More
How to Make Anthem Better
February 12, 2020 | Robert Endyo
A couple of days ago, Bioware announced that they would now be working on a “longer-term redesign” of Anthem over the coming months. It’s no mystery that Anthem had a rough start and was often touted as one of the … Read More
Reviews
Rage 2’s use of Open-World design does not work
June 4, 2019 | Robert Endyo
Recently, I finished Rage 2. I set out in the game with the hope that it would deliver something reminiscent of the magnificence of Doom while drawing some of the enjoyable open-world aspects of an Avalanche developed game. I … Read More
PlayStation Now: Does it Need to Change to Survive?
March 25, 2019 | Matthew Byrd
In many ways, PlayStation Now is shaping up to be Sony’s biggest missed opportunity of the PS4 era.
PlayStation Now sounded like a pretty exciting service when it was first revealed in 2014. At the very least, it offered … Read More
Crackdown 3 or Anthem: Which is More Disappointing?
February 21, 2019 | Matthew Byrd
February 2019 was supposed to be one of the biggest months for games in recent memory. Headlined by titles like Metro Exodus, Crackdown 3, and Anthem, many gamers were left wondering just how they were going to play all … Read More
Opinion
How to Make Anthem Better
February 12, 2020 | Robert Endyo A couple of days ago, Bioware announced that they would now be working on a “longer-term redesign” of Anthem over the coming months. It’s no mystery that Anthem had a rough start and was often touted as one of the … Read More
Can Valve’s First “3” Be Portal 3?
February 6, 2020 | Robert Endyo
Nearly nine years ago we were once against tossed into the broken down laboratories of Aperture Science with Portal 2. The game followed up a franchise introduction that practically created the bar for puzzle platforming. Puzzle games, especially those from the first-person … Read More
Doom Eternal Is More Than It Seems
February 1, 2020 | Robert Endyo
I’ve pored over quite a bit of Doom Eternal content lately in anticipation of the upcoming release and a lot is going on. Following up on one of the most successful games of 2016 and a revival of the … Read More