Mars 2120 Review
38 years ago when Metroid released on the Famicom in August 1986, the revelation that Samus Aran is a woman was anything but novel. The assumption that obviously there must be a man behind that mask was based in at least a few decades’ worth of media featuring a dude as the action star. Fast-forward almost 40 years and it’s a completely different landscape. Heck, many people I know opt...[Read More]
MARS 2120 (PC) Chumps Preview
Chumps Preview is a special kind of post where we unofficially preview games in Early Access, Beta, or are otherwise “unfinished.” This kind of preview is meant to be a first impression rather than a definitive review where we provide a rating to determine a game’s value. As such, we fully expect a game covered in a Chumps Preview to have room for improvement, some bugginess/incompleteness, and ot...[Read More]
99Vidas
Streets of Rage and Double Dragon were two beat ‘em up games that I grew up with in the arcades and on console (SoR was on the Genesis). They took a simple concept of walking to the right and fighting everything that appeared in front of you while only using a simple three-button combination (kick, jump, punch) to lead the way. After all the waves of simple bad guys on the journey to the end of a ...[Read More]