The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced this year’s recipients of the Nobel Prizes in their respective fields of academics and sciences. This year’s chemistry winners for 2024 are DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and famed chemist John Jumper who are sharing half of the prize with David Baker, head of …
Read More »Doom And Doom 2 Are Getting Huge Updates Soon, Including Multiplayer Deathmatch
Doom and Doom II are getting some massive updates in time for QuakeCon this weekend. Both games are being combined into one listing, and will be getting some new online features. Over on the Steam page, Doom and Doom II are now bundled into one definitive and newly enhanced package. …
Read More »Get The Arcade Experience For Street Fighter 2 Turbo And 13 Other Games With This Arcade Cabinet Deal
Home arcade cabinets are more affordable than ever, but thanks Walmart’s current sale, you can pick up Arcade1Up’s Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting legacy cabinet, which is currently $50, bringing the price down to a reasonable $250. See at Walmart The “Yoga Flame” cabinet is modeled after Street Fighter …
Read More »That Cool-Ass Doom: The Dark Ages Shield Has Been Modded Into OG Doom
It didn’t take long for a deft individual to bring the recently revealed Shield Saw from Doom: The Dark Ages to the original Doom. This is no mere decoration, either, as the modded item can be thrown to dice up enemies and also used to rip through them in close-quarters …
Read More »PO'ed Definitive Edition Is Nightdive Studios' Next Restoration Project
Nightdive Studios has become one of the gaming industry’s most prolific developers for remastered games, with Star Wars: Dark Forces, Quake II, and Rise Of The Triad among its recent projects. Today–and this is real, not an April Fools’ prank–the firm announced its next retro venture, 1995’s PO’ed, which will …
Read More »Valve Makes "Boomer Shooter" An Official Genre On Steam
With literally thousands of games launching on Steam every year, sometimes it can be difficult to find the exact game you’re looking for–especially when that game falls into a larger genre like first-person-shooters. Valve has made it easier for retro-minded shooter fans to find their next game, as the label …
Read More »Get 7 Bethesda Classic Games For Just $12 In This Bundle Deal
Over the years, Bethesda has developed and published some incredible games, as well as a few stinkers like Rogue Warrior, a 2009 shooter that some consider to be one of the worst games ever. If you’re looking to create a Bethesda Best-Of Steam library, you can head on over to …
Read More »Emmy-Nominated Writer Is Penning Novelization Of One Of The Worst Games Ever Made
If you had “book version of a notoriously bad ’90s video game” on your bingo card, you’re one step closer to a row. Limited Run Games has announced a novelization of Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties–the critically panned adventure game for PC and 3DO. The novel will be written by Mike …
Read More »Grab 33 Classic Children's Adventure Games For Just $45
If you were born in the ’90s or early 2000s, chances are Humongous Entertainment’s classic computer games are among your earliest video game memories, and thanks to recent ports and releases, the many tales of Putt-Putt the Car, Freddi Fish, Pajama Sam, and more are playable on modern PC operating …
Read More »Gex Is Back, For Some Reason
Of all the games that could have been announced for a remake this year, Crystal Dynamics’ 1995 game about a wise-cracking, TV-obsessed gecko, Gex, was not high on my list. But thanks to Limited Run games and its Carbon Engine technology, that’s exactly what we’re getting. The Gex Trilogy will …
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