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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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Walugi has arrived at the wrong event, Walugi is disqualified.
Mario, Sonic, and their entourages are back once again to compete in the Summer Olympics. Take control of your favorite character from either franchise and compete in the modern games, race across Tokyo in story mode, and go old school in a 2D version of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
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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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Jump faster and learn patterns to find your way to freedom. But it's easy, each level is harder than the one before and SCRAP keeps getting faster. If you like old-school running games Scrap might be worth looking at.
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Fans of paranoid schizophrenia, spooky settings and literal graveyards worth of fresh corpses take note Draugen has landed. This Beautiful psycho-thriller set in an isolated Norwegian fjord during the 1920s has plenty to offer as well as a few things to consider.
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If classic turn-based Strategy is your thing Christmas has come early in the form of Battle Worlds Kronos, the result of a successful Kickstarter campaign, it’s an old school strategy game that will provide red-meat for most wargame fiends.
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Stop, Stop its too silly!
Goofy, surreal and sometimes hilarious Rock of Ages II Bigger and Boulder is definitely a niche product although I wonder if I ended up on some sort of Federal Watch List just for playing it. If you like Monty Python, horribly imitated accents and crushing people with giant rocks this might just be the game for you.
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Enter “Worlds Odyssey” a virtual reality game of swords, sorcery and lingerie . Adding to the fun is the minor detail that death in game means death in real life. Fortunately, it can be hacked from the outside. If you like JRPGs, decapitation and having your brain trying to escape through your nose Death end re;Quest might be for you.
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Welcome to the Nebula, the futuristic home of a young Archaeologist who has discovered that an ancient world ending event may be about to re-occur. Will they be able to find the secret and save the world…uh, Nebula or will they be cast into centuries more of darkness. Take a look at Inkle’s Heaven’s Vault to find out.
Read MoreDo you like exploration, trading, and scurvy (who doesn’t?) If so then read on and see if Neo Atlas 1469, the latest title in the long running series might be for you.
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