Tag Archives: PS1

Deep in the darkest corner of Fatal Frame’s abandoned villages, a disturbing thought blooms in your mind: what if there really are ghosts? What if monsters are real? What if outside right now, far away from the glowing light of this very fictional video game in our comfortably warm homes, …

Video game nostalgia takes different forms for different people. We’re well past the saturation point for 8-bit and 16-bit aesthetics in the indie scene, which strives to evoke fond memories of playing your NES in the living room or picking a side in those schoolyard debates of Super Nintendo vs. …

Batman Forever Warning – major spoilers for Batman: Arkham Knight, including the Knightfall ending ahead Three games, two batsuits and one stonking great cityscape later Rocksteady’s winning stint behind the Bat-signal is finally at an end. With Gotham city now safe, Scarecrow in shackles and the Batman unmasked, Bruce Wayne …

Take it to the next level For the sake of bypassing geek stereotypes, I’m going to assume that you, dear reader, have an awesome sex life. Good for you! But whether you spend your nights with a special someone, a revolving door of paramours, or only the finest of sensual …

More news on the Mafia series may emerge soon and Kingdom Hearts 3 (opens in new tab) could release in 2015, if loose-lipped voice actors on Twitter have their stories straight. Both Rick Pasqualone, who stars as Vito Scaletta in 2010’s Mafia 2, and Bill Farmer, who is the modern …

Sensationalise me Remember that short-lived Twitter fad #explainafilmplotbadly? Yes, well, you can rest assured that this piece of hard-hitting investigative journalism is absolutely, 100-percent dissimilar. No wait it’s exactly the same. Of course there are a number of minor caveats to consider. For one, not all of these entries are …

It’s a poorly kept secret that I have a massive sweet tooth. I got pretty cranky this morning when I discovered that someone (Anthony Snyder) had eaten the peanut butter cup that was on my desk. Hey man, that was my breakfast! I have a particularly strong weakness for cookies, …

Many gamers revere the original Deus Ex, calling it one of the most revolutionary, forward-thinking games of all time. And while that may be true, it also features some shockingly awful voiceovers–like a Chinese woman who greets you with “Mistah J.C. Denton, in da fresh.” Bad fake accents will immediately …

Jade Raymond has left Ubisoft after ten years overseeing some of its most successful studios and franchises, and with her goes one of the best-known producers and studio directors in the business. Most recently, Raymond worked as… Wait, you’re not sure what a video game producer actually does, are you? …

You know I’m a sucker for pixel art, especially when it combines a 16-bit aesthetic with the extra-smooth animations of the 32-bit era. And that’s what immediately grabs me about Ethereal, an indie Kickstarter project with a realistically obtainable goal. Playing as a cute blue orb of spirit energy, you …