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When I first loaded up Terminator 2D No Fate on PS5, I’ll be honest — I braced myself for 90s nostalgia with a price tag. And yeah, it absolutely leans into that retro vibe. But what surprised me wasn ...

Millions of digital horses were clad in armour on April 3, 2006. The survivors of this phenomenon called this downloadable content purchase a “microtransaction.” They lived only to face new nightmares ...

In 2018, Square Enix released a new game called Octopath Traveler, which introduced a revolutionary new graphics format ...

Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert has called time on his previously teased but largely under the radar RPG. Back in May of last year, I first caught wind of the developer's 2D pixel art RPG, which he ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

For decades, the dots, lines, and strange symbols painted alongside Ice Age animals baffled archaeologists. Now, a breakthrough by an amateur researcher may have solved the 20,000-year-old mystery.

This has been a huge year for ninja games, thanks to two major titles that dropped in 2025: Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound and Shinobi: Art of Vengeance. Both fall under the 2D action platformer genre, ...

RPG 'I'm over making other people really wealthy with my own creations': Fallout co-creator Tim Cain isn't interested in making a new IP or a sequel to one of his classic RPGs and, at this point, he's ...

When it comes to 2D action platformers, I don’t necessarily need them to be revolutionary. But I do expect a superb execution of the fundamentals – speed, control, and challenge – all of which the ...

There’s a myth that true immersion into video games requires three dimensions: Sidescrollers are good for nostalgia, but the future belongs to photorealistic 3D worlds. But a range of recent games ...