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Do you like puzzles, abandoned worlds and exploration? How about slamming your head against the floor until you think you are a tuna sandwich? If you said yes to any of these, then climb aboard, the Long Gate might just be the game for you.
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Do you like beautiful hand-drawn art, haunting music and uh…… did I mention beautiful hand-drawn art? If so then… Okay never mind, it's complicated, let's take a look at Nerd Monkey’s beautiful puzzler… Out of Line.
Read MoreWhats in a name? Going by its title Giraffe and Annika sounds like a kids show on the Sprout Network involving a magical stuffed animal. SPOILER ALERT: ITS NOT. Its a rather interesting adventure game with no actual Giraffes in sight. So lets go explore the magical island of Spica and see if this is the game for you.
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You awaken on a beach, and a helpfully placed television shows two purple beings, who explain that you are inside an egg and destined for great things. After this, it gets weird.
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Do like helicopters, automatic weapons and legions of the dead risen to feast on the flesh of the living? If so GET TO DA CHOPPA! Dustoff Z might be the game for you.
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Stomping around in a gigantic battle Mech is usually a good premise for a game. If you add weapons it sounds like a great premise for a game. So if you like explosions, ray guns and crushing the unworthy and the unlucky beneath your armored feet, this might be the game for you.
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Some war-games go for realism, some go for action and playability. Super Trench Attack, on the other hand, goes for comedy. If for some unsolved mysteries reason your favorite things are trench warfare, cross-dressing and attempting to find the worst possible joke then Super Trench Attack is for you.
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All good stories involve pirates. Including Imaginary Lab’s interactive tale where we guide Willy Morgan down the dark allies of a pirate town on a quest to discover the fate of his missing father.
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Ah the heady days of early aviation, wood, canvas, wire and machine guns, if that sounds like a good combination then brush up on your German and take to the unfriendly skies of the Great War with Red Wings: Aces of the Sky.
Read MoreDo you feel the need for speed or will you end up in a flat spin, headed out to sea? These burning questions and squadrons of Top Gun references await you in this review of SEGA ACES G-LOC: Air Battle. So kick the tires and light the fires as we check out the latest SEGA revival of an arcade classic.
Read MoreBack in my day, games had sprites and you had to ride them to play your games, uphill, through the snow, both ways we also played them on computers, which is why I’m taking a new look at this game from back in aught 17, its out now on that newfangdangled Nintendo Switch. So mount up and let’s take a gander at Experimental Gamer Studios’ Boot Hill Bounties, the sequel to 2013’s Boot Hill Heroes. And let me tell you if you like sprites, fighting everything from bad guys to disgruntled livestock and of course dying with your boots on this is the RPG for you.
Read MoreIf you like retro games and telling kids about how it was “back in my day” before ordering them off your lawn Christmas has come again with the retro Japanese arcade title Puyo Puyo 2. Let’s dive right in and see if this is a classic we never knew.
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Sonic is back from the past and didn’t need a Delorian to do it in this revival of the second Sonic platformer. If speed, industrial quantities of gold rings, egg-shaped supervillains and more speed or your thing then Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is the title for you.
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Shovel Knight: King of Cards – Review (PC) .
Do you like playing cards, Retro video games? and dressing up like Thomas the Tank Engine? Well, if you, my friend, count this unlikely combination as your wish list, I have just the game for you. Let’s get clanking with Shovel Knight: King of Cards
Read MoreDespite capital ships, fighters galore, and a well-established setting BattleStar Galactica has never really made the transition to video games. There have been efforts since the TI-994a back in the day, but generally, it’s been underwhelming. So In honor of its release on the Nintendo Switch let’s take a look at Battlestar Galactica Deadlock.
Read MoreMario, Sonic, and their entourages are back to compete in the Summer Olympics. Quest through Tokyo to save Mario and Sonic from the latest scheme by Dr. Eggman and Bowser, or take control of your favorite character from either franchise and compete in single events.
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Gnomes and asteroids come together in a surreal world whose puzzles and high production values will pull you in like a gaming equivalent of a pitcher plant. Once you are inside however you discover it’s not quite what you thought. See if you can escape from Colibri Game’s Tiny Bang Story.
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Back in my day, games were actually fun and well coded, oh yeah, and get off my lawn! If you are nostalgic for the 1990s, 1993 precisely then this is your lucky day. Take a trip back to the days of Wing Commander with Double Damage’s Rebel Galaxy Outlaw and game like they did when memory and hard drives were measured in chickens, I mean megabytes.
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Tiny Metal: Full Metal Rumble; a sequel to 2017’s Tiny Metal, is in some ways just another “arcade war game” reminiscent of Nintendo’s Advance Wars, and “just another sequel” in others. But it’s also much more. If you like anime characters in ridiculous costumes, poorly synced voice-overs and a pleasant surprise in the form of an enjoyable war game, then this is the game for you.
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Twenty years ago, Crash Team Racing beat Mario Kart at its own game, its well-designed courses, power-sliding mechanics, and relative lack of catch-up items or mercy of any sort for its players make it a game that deserves to be remembered. Today its modern clone once more charges forth to challenge Mario. Will it once again show Nintendo the folly of battling a Bandicoot or has it been left in the dust by 20 years of Mario Kart evolution?
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