Our Most Anticipated Games for 2026
In a retrospective of the year 2025 in gaming, it could be said that the AAA-games keep disappointing and indie games keep winning. It’s an...
Why Do You Play? What Should You Play?
Why do you play? And what should you play? This question has been on my mind for a while now, and repeatedly comes back to...
QUOD INIT EXIT IIo Review
Positive shocks.
THE GAME
The first of many hit as a direct result from the game page for Quod Init Exit IIo at itch.io one...
Our Most Anticipated Games for 2025
While 2024 has seen a sad continuation (or evolution, rather?) of many of the bad trends we’ve been forced to endure lately in the video...
Our Most Anticipated Games for 2024
Another year has gone by, and looking back, we’ve had the pleasure to experience a couple of excellent games this year. Baldur’s Gate...
What is the best D-pad?
Which controller has the best D-pad, and if you need to get a new controller today (in the 2020s), which one is the best to...
Our Most Anticipated Games For 2023
Looking back the gaming year of 2022, we have, as expected, seen both some good and some bad. We have seen some really cringe-inducing games...
Our Most Anticipated Games For 2022
The year 2021 in video games has in may ways been a disappointing one, overall. Some of our...
More Dariusburst is Headed to EU!
Press Release
Stuttgart, 12th May 2021 – TAITO and ININ Games are proud to announce DariusBurst Another Chronicle EX+ will be released both physically and...
Outrage Review
It’s not exactly “standard practice” for an 8-bit video / computer game to take 30 (Thirty?!) years from conception to release, but Outrage is one...
Our Most Anticipated Games For 2021
2020 will probably always be remembered as a legendary bad year, but despite it all, we have been enjoying quite a few of new video...
Art For The Machines: Part VII – Burn Out Or Fade Away?
Eye Of Horus (Logotron) – To avoid some chronological confusion – Eye Of Horus actually came out before...
Art For The Machines: Part VI – Unpublished Video Games Are Games Too
Gargantuan (N/A) – We naturally have to address this “parallel” chapter during a gradually more and more shaky era for the 8-bit machines. Gargantuan was...
Art For The Machines: Part V – Gifts For The Bits
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ECO (Ocean) – Another shift in the ongoing and never-ending evolution of video games as Denton Designs...
Art For The Machines: Part IV – What Next?
Infodroid (Beyond) – What is an Infodroid? The simplest explanation is that it’s a Droid that deals with...
MW Ultra Review
I have an extraordinarily hard time naming even three franchises that consist of four consecutive games of such ultra high quality as the Metal Warrior...
Art For The Machines: Part III – Everything Changes (Everything)
1986-1987
Enigma Force (Beyond) – Shadowfire 2… Phew… Just imagine the pressure – How the devil do you...
Art For The Machines: Part II – Denton Goes To The Top
Frankie Goes to Hollywood (Ocean) – While this is the video game that single-handedly and properly welded Ocean...
Denton Designs – Art For The Machines: Part I
Reading old reviews for Batman-related video games is one sharp, double-edged sword. But in this case, it’s not just about any random Batman-game,...
Commodore 64 – Launch titles & Must-plays: Part II
13. Kickman
Commodore
Swiftly and briefly moving over to the slightly darker side of Coin-Op conversions…
About those earliest Commodore 64...