Beloved ’90s RPGs Lunar: The Silver Star and Lunar: Eternal Blue are coming back with new remasters, bringing some of the best non-Final Fantasy turn-based anime RPGs of the day to modern consoles. Sony announced that the two classics are returning as the Lunar Remastered Collection during its State of …
Read More »Backyard Baseball '97 Remaster Revealed, Arriving In October On PC
Exactly 27 years after it debuted, Backyard Baseball ’97 will be available again on October 10. Playground Productions has revealed the remaster of the original Backyard Sports game, which will cost $10 on Steam. The re-release of Backyard Baseball ’97 apparently wasn’t easy. Playground notes the original source code was …
Read More »Backyard Sports Is Back, But We're Not Sure Exactly How Yet
From 1999 to 2015, Backyard Sports was a beloved kid-friendly sports game franchise with colorful graphics, easy gameplay, and one of the most dominant athletes in video game history in Pablo Sanchez. Today, Playground Productions has announced that Backyard Sports is coming back, and it’s doing so as more than …
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 »Nintendo Switch Online Adds Pokemon Mystery Dungeon On August 9
Nintendo will soon be adding another beloved Pokemon game to Switch’s classic games catalog. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team is coming to the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack service on August 9. Originally released for Game Boy Advance back in 2006, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team is …
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 »Nintendo Missed The Chance To Give Donkey Kong A Much Funnier Name
In the ’80s, some of the classic arcade characters weren’t always called by the names that we know them by today. Pac-Man was originally Puck Man, which was changed in America because of how easily that name could have been defaced into an expletive. Even Mario was internally called Mr. …
Read More »A Long-Abandoned Game Boy Advance Game Is Finally Out Now
There have been countless video games that have been canceled before their release, but very few that have been canceled three times. Kien, a Game Boy Advance title that was originally slated to be released in 2002, is one of the few. Review copies of Kien went out to contemporary …
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 »Los Angeles Chargers Unveil Their NFL Schedule With The Sims 2
It might be almost 20 years old, but The Sims 2 just became the talk of the town. That’s because the Los Angeles Chargers utilized the video game to unveil their NFL schedule for the 2024-25 season. The social media team for the Chargers “spent hours” in The Sims 2 …
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