If there is one thing Bond fans should be used to by now, it’s delays. Yep, 007 First Light for the Nintendo Switch 2 has unfortunately been delayed yet again, and will now launch in March of 2027. The IO Interactive game first arrived on PC, Xbox and PS5 in May of this year, and the Switch 2…

How Long Video Games Take To Make – About This Study Video games take longer to make than they used to, but if you ask how long that is you’ll get wildly varying answers. Many will point to how many years there are between releases in major franchises, but that’s not a good way to gauge development…

The transition into the 16-bit era represented a substantial leap not just in technology, but also in memories. So, let’s talk about heading into the SNES and what would become my comfort game: Zelda: A Link to the Past. My mother and I moved about an hour away from my father, so that she could…

Introducing the Otoroshi, or is that Osoroshi? Whatever it is, it's terrifying!

Written for Haywire Magazine . Weather in The Zone of Exclusion doesn’t behave the same way it does everywhere else. Sometimes a furious energy storm sweeps through the sky, shaking the ground and spilling violent energy in all directions. Sometimes the sky flickers with distant thunderstorms,…

Taito, Arcade, 1991 Landmark STG by the director that would immediately after work on [Metal Black](https://davidwilliams.xyz/gamelog/2024/metal-black/ "‌"). The setting here is a sci-fi spin on the wild west and all of the vehicles show an over-th…

I've gladly purchased every game Supergiant has put out either on launch day or as close to it as I'm able. They make great games over there. One might say that Supergiant never misses. Hades II threatens to disabuse me of that notion. After completing both the main story and the epilogue, I stand…

It's hard to miss, him and that sun radiating from his pocket. Baggy and protruding, heavy and scalding, it's a street sight that makes every eye look down and wonder how scared should they be of the burden's bulge, the shadows under the knife's eyes. It's fear all the same — we've all been burned…

For some reason I put Crazy Taxi's levels into the browser and You Can Too

During an archive clean-up earlier this year, I discovered a complete backup of all my older blog iterations. I've been and still am steadily integrating all of them into this version of the blog, so I've got posts running from 2001 all the way up to today. Kind of shocking and nostalgic to look…

Casual Birder (2022, Playdate) Developer: Diego Garcia Publisher: Panic Clear Version: Playdate Clear Platform: Playdate Clear Date: 6/19/26 Why should I care? This debut title for the charming Playdate seems to lay out pretty well what the point of this device is (positive). Fowl shots Wow, 2022!…

The post Thrilling Machine: A Brief History of George Gomez appeared first on Noah's Barks . Issue 52 of Old School Gamer Magazine allowed me the honor of interviewing industry legend George Gomez. The post Thrilling Machine: A Brief History of George Gomez appeared first on Noah's Barks .

Regular readers of this blog might have worked out the area of my cone of ignorance. I have a very sharp and narrow knowledge of eighties games and software houses which gets wider and hazier into the nineties and fades out almost entirely post-millennium. What company released Rockstar Ate My…

My previous power cell issue has been resolved. The butane canister and the nutrient container I bought earlier were indeed in demand in the next system, and I was able to buy all of the power cells I needed. With the power cell issue sorted, I did a few back-and-forth jobs from Atlas Prime to the…

For this post, a donation was made to my friend Marcy’s GoFundMe to help cover living costs for the winter . She recently wrote about Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence here , and is writing longer posts about Princess Arete on her blog here (her site is a little sluggish, switch to reader view!), a…

An exploration of the party system in Tales of Arise and the impact of Hanging Out on the narrative.

MAGE MAGAZINE THE MAGAZINE TO DISCOVER SOMETHING NEW ISSUE #3 – APRIL 2026 Click on the Cover Above to Download Discover the Present and Past of Gaming: Mage Magazine Issue #3 is Now Available! From the team behind the long-running Thirsty Mage Podcast comes the Third issue of MAGE , a video game…

New review post on the blog! Europa for PC! Check it out on the blog page!

Content warning: mention of threats of suicide In 2019, a very special campaign of Band of Blades took place at Phoenix Community College in Ballarat, Australia. Normally, the game is played with about four players. This campaign had somewhere between 30 to 60. Phoenix is far from a fancy school.…

I’m not a religious man, but I do have some enduring memories of my time attending a Church of England primary school. One of those was, presumably as part of our government-mandated Daily Collective Act of Worship , hearing stories of what God, Jesus and friends had been getting up to in Olden…

Fin or Bin: Devil May Cry 3 ALT Good news! The operation to restore our boy Dante’s personality after he lost 90% of it in a tragic sequelisation incident was a complete success, and he even gained a little extra. DMC3’s Dante is the cocksure bell-end we all love and cherish, and he absolutely…

Most games are designed for thousands or millions of players. I decided to make my next game for a target player base of four humans: my wife, our friends Frank and Becky, and Becky’s sister Carol Ann. I thought the game would take a month or two to develop, even around the busyness of a full-time…

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Sony Interactive Entertainment has made Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls available for purchase in some previously restricted countries. Recently, this site reported on the PC version of the game being region-locked in 130 or so countries due to Sony’s PSN limitations…

Satya Nadella is an evil fucking worm and dipshit beneficiary of government contracts. He’s the Azure jackass with a tall ass melon who runs an AI company called Microsoft. I could continue to talk about the general ways I dislike him on a personal level, but I’ll instead focus on a specific one:…

#Godot

I’ve been digging into the PlayStation 2 recently, coincidentally, for a few projects. I was working on a new episode of Millennium Edition about Final Fantasy XI and its unique history as one of the earliest cross-platform games, and that got me thinking. What are some other early cross-platform…

What I've been up to: Tutorials, Torches, and Shadowgate. The post Update 8/31/2026 appeared first on Michael Coorlim .

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The Division disguises authoritarian conditioning as tactical gameplay. Through mechanical complexity and dopamine-driven progression, it trains players to see state violence as skillful, necessary, and rewarding —while foreclosing moral alternatives and rendering community resilience invisible.…

Recently, I checked out some of my sites using the wayback machine of archive.org. And after trying out some URLs, I was really able to find the old reviews that were online on this site (which was calles RPG WorldWide back then) in 2001! I thought that I had lost them in a hard disk crash in late…

Argonaut Software's attempt at a 3D platformer on the Saturn is original enough to remain fun, despite suffering all the growing pains the genre endured during the 32-bit era. A finicky camera and tank controls are likely to turn some players away, but there's enough quality here to occupy an…

SIREN (Sony Computer Entertainment, 2003) NEO: The World Ends With You (Square Enix, h.a.n.d., 2021) Umamusume: Pretty Derby (Cygames, 2021) Friction and polish Ideally, I'd like to go a little less than four-ish weeks between updates here, but so it goes. In reality, the thing that's been blocking…

T he newest episode of Press Pause Radio has landed on Earth, like Kal-El when he was rocketed from Krypton. And like Superman's alter ego, Clark Kent, this episode is going to be extremely nerdy. This week, we are discussing the flawed past and hopeful future of Superhero video games. The crew…

I n 2016, DICE released Mirror’s Edge Catalyst , an open-world sequel to its innovative 2008 first-person action game. Faith returned as the protagonist; the magnificent glass city framed by cerulean blue skies returned as the parkour playground. But while the game was developed by the same studio,…

intro & goals inspirations the plan creating the spritesheet programming the movement [1 of 2] programming the movement [2 of 2] the final result conclusion My current project, , is a dice game; so it's very important to me to create a dice roll animation that feels Isle Anamalo right!…

Desert Strike and its sequels were some of my favorite series of games to play as a kid. Zooming over a landscape in a helicopter with objectives you could complete in any order. Most of them were just blowing things up but some had you winching up people to try and get them to a battlefield drop…

Welcome back to Remastered! This week, the newsletter finally lives up to its namesake by covering two remasters as the featured story. Thanks for supporting Remastered through this busier, Summer Game Fest-fueled period. If you’ve enjoyed everything I’ve written, then please consider subscribing…

The funny thing about the Xbox 360 is that it actually lost. I know the idea of winners and losers in the Great Console Wars ™ are a bit childish. But it feels surprising that, between the Wii , PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, it’s Microsoft’s console that sold the fewest of that trio. It even had a…

2026-07-01-updates 1.Added Streets of Rage 2 Captain Commando The Ooze Redux MD Port Swap - Utility ISS Deluxe for Mega Drive with Real Names [AI] Flicki's Escape Tower Tic Tac Toe Panda Jump Preorders opened for a very rare game Sonic the Hedgehog (35th Anniversary) - Legacy Cartridge Collection…

Box art for Dr. Sulfur’s Night Lab, courtesy of Stuart Feldhamer via MobyGames . Science is a tough subject for an educational game. Looking at a sample of edutainment games from the 80s and 90s, I’m willing to say that a large portion of them are about math, maybe because math is easier to…

We have blown through the age of abundance in Planet Crafter and have reached a point of over abundance. We have too much stuff. Certainly A Planet Crafter I know, I know, inventory management in games like this often makes you feel like you have too much stuff. And we have spent most of our time…

Up this week: Kingdom Hearts 3 – let’s go boss battling in this latest addition to the Kingdom Hearts lineup! Connect: wegameunited@gmail.com Watch: YouTube ~ Video Bastion Shop: Spreadshirt Kingdom Hearts 3

Yesterday was the 4th anniversary of the 1st commit of the 4th codebase trying to create Chronicles IV. As is tradition , here's a blog post! Couple of Updates Warp Point This blog is now a part of Warp Point ! Wes Fenlon & Matt Sayer have developed a new blog directory collecting gaming-related…

the dev commentary in valve games is so interesting and useful and educative, but their games come out somewhat rarely and most of the others that i’ve seen do commentary have done it badly it’s usually either self-serving pr-type junk or just sort of rambly nothing. what’s the missing ingredient…

The wishlist is growing Hey readers, There’s some chatter going around about an upcoming “friendslop” game (i.e.: a silly multiplayer game with proximity chat and low graphical specs with lots of hijinx, like Peak). This one is called Dear Passengers, which has you and your friends act as crew…

Kamen Rider might help explain where the Zelda big bad gets his name.

I've played several hours of Big Walk by now. It's a multiplayer puzzle game where you look like this: And solve puzzles in buildings that look like this: In a much more "realistic" forest environment that looks like this: That contrast between the game's bright and toylike tools, structures, and…

SIGONO is at it again, making me laugh, cry, and utterly shattering the already high expectations I have of them with their latest release into the OPUS series.

I really like it when video game companies re-release their old games. Did you know that you can buy and play the original 1984 Hydlide for PC-88 on PC 1 and Switch? I think that's neat. Outside of Japan, we really only know Hydlide as that odd 1989 game on the NES that plays a knockoff of the…