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The newly announced Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream is a narrative-driven isometric stealth game, and it looks absolutely stunning.

The Thing: Remastered is being touted as [Nightdive Studios’] faithful restoration of the 2002 third-person survival horror shooter inspired by John Carpenter‘s 1982 classic [motion picture], The Thing.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind plays like the 16-bit beat-em-up I’ve always wanted…

This Cozy Virtual Pet Sim Is ‘Microsoft Clippy, But Better’

Tetris Forever includes “more than 15 playable classic games from the series’ history,” according to publisher Digital Eclipse, which specializes in restorations and rereleases.

It’s been almost 40 years since the Atari 7800 clashed with the NES, but the company just announced that the retro console is back.

Nightdive Studios is releasing a remaster of Dark Forces that features enhanced lighting and textures but retains the look and feel of the original game. It is a testament to those LucasArts classics that are still beloved all these years later.

System Shock is one of the most important video games of all time.
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While Nightdive Studios polished the 1994 game’s pixel environments — and the most macabre of scenes — to a gleam, these moments exemplify how the original cemented its legacy decades ago.  | … My Friendly Neighborhood is fresh, scary and funny.

There’s nothing like an entire TTRPG dedicated solely to the Cthulhu Mythos.

Envision Entertainment have released a demo for rustic city-builder Pioneers of Pagonia, and as they say in Manchester, by ‘eck it’s gorgeous.

Warpath manages to get the iconic soldiers Marco Rossi and Eri Kasamoto join the front lines of the Warpath army in the latest Warpath Metal Slug 3 collaboration for the real-time strategy game.

But where Resident Evil is known for its dark tone and terrifying moments, My Friendly Neighborhood mostly makes light of the genre with brightly colored environments and some extremely silly antagonists.

With crafting in nearly every game in recent years, it’s important for games to have some distinctions that set the mechanic apart. The Front achieves this through combining base and vehicular building alongside tower defense design, offering a lot of different ways to be creative.

Scrapper began its run this past July. It is written by video game industry icon Cliff Bleszinski and Alex de Campi with art by Ryan Kelly and Jordie Bellaire.

New apps like BeFake, which has melded A.I. image features with socializing and sharing … prompts users at a different time every day to take a picture with their smartphone’s front and back cameras and then has A.I. transform the image.

The new System Shock feels neither affectedly retro nor entirely modern, neither lo-fi indie nor blockbuster-big. It’s one of the most subtly odd labors of love I’ve seen in the past few years.

With Rosen at the helm, the company is taking a closer look at its own history to chart its future, releasing remastered or reimagined versions of its classics like “Missile Command” and “Centipede,” producing the critically acclaimed “Atari 50” interactive documentary, and introducing its soon-to-be released retro console the Atari 2600+.

Mr. Run and Jump will work with actual retro 2600 consoles, but also with newer VCS remakes.

The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying changes the mechanics of Dungeons & Dragons to provide memorable adventures in a low-magic setting where exploration and fellowship is as important as combat.

Destiny 2’s New PlayStation-Inspired Armor Sets Are Pretty Incredible

AMC Networks has partnered with Free League Publishing — a powerhouse with a stable of original and licensed tabletop games, settings, and systems — to create The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Game.

Atari, the company that made its mark developing some of the first home gaming systems, including the game Pong, is betting big on nostalgia.

Activision, Arcane Wonders, Genuine Entertainment, and Evolution have announced that they will be producing “Call of Duty: The Board Game,” a strategic tabletop roleplaying game inspired by the popular video game series “Call of Duty.”

Long Beach Comic Con…will take over the Long Beach Convention Center…to house some of the amazing talents — from writers, artists, illustrators, publishers, cosplayers, and screen stars — behind your favorite comic books, TV shows, and films.

[Missile Command: Recharged] makes for a wonderfully brisk arcade experience and acts as a template for how other retro arcade games should pursue a rebirth on mobile.

…if you’re intrigued by the world of Dune – or you’re a tried-and-tested fan – you’ll likely relish the intensely detailed nature of Modiphius’ Dune: Adventures in the Imperium.

Hello There Games] teamed up with legendary game publisher Atari for a newly-released mobile game celebrating the life and work of Avicii.

Seeking Chaotic, Co-Op Horror? 10 Chambers’ GTFO Should Be Next On Your List.

[P]ower protection leader Schneider Electric announced the imminent release of its new gamer-focused uninterruptible power supply, the APC Back-UPS Pro Gaming UPS.

For gamers on the go, a backpack from MAINGEAR can hold all of their devices.

Atari has put its name on a lot of products beyond video game systems over the years, but its next licensing deal could, literally, be its biggest. The company that arguably started the home video game industry has signed a partnership that will result in eight or more Atari-themed hotels…

Many fans have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the System Shock remake, and while things have been quiet recently, it’s finally coming in 2022.

…there are always a handful of titles that stand out for being incredibly outside-of-the-box in their design and execution. This year, that short list includes The Vale, which is a game you can’t see at all. Developed by Falling Squirrel, the team consulted with The Canadian National Institute for the Blind and have created something quite unlike the vast majority of games out there.

Insert Coin, a documentary about Midway Games’ rise in the ’90s with an impressive lineup of titles that includes NBA Jam and Mortal Kombat…

It’s BloodRayne that stands out the most, though, as Ziggurat intends to do more with the series than simply own it. For starters, it is already working alongside Terminal Reality, the developer of the first two games, to update the PC versions of the games so as to improve compatibility and provide various enhancements.

Vampire: The Masquerade is a tabletop role-playing game that has long been steeped in controversy. Since the first few editions were published in the early 1990s, the game has been criticized for its dark and erotic themes. Fans would say that detractors are simply missing the point.

A new three-part expansion for World of Tanks: War Stories, called ‘Spoils of War,’ is available now on Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 4, developer Wargaming announced today.

Nightdive Studios, known for restoring classic video games such as System Shock and Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, has partnered with production company Alcon Entertainment to restore the 1997 point-and-click adventure title Blade Runner…[which] garnered critical praise and won the inaugural computer adventure game of the year at the Academy of Interactive Arts & Science’s first DICE Awards.

LiquidSky wants to use the cloud to
rethink everything about gaming.

The Maingear Turbo is the small Ferrari of gaming PC’s. It’s expertly built and, in our configuration, has aesthetics that make me look at my own custom-built PC in disgust.

Shadow Man: Remastered provides a dark and thrilling adventure in an impressively open world; it looks better than it ever has, and it has extra content that didn’t make its way into the previous versions.

Microsoft partnered with a number of organizations while developing the Adaptive Controller, including The AbleGamers Charity, The Cerebral Palsy Foundation, SpecialEffect, Warfighter Engaged and Craig Hospital to help ensure the device was properly optimized.

Atari has created one of the most appealing set-top PCs I’ve ever seen.

GTFO developer 10 Chambers Collective has revealed the fifth major update (aka Rundown #5), titled “Rebirth,” for its popular four-player PvE survival horror first-person shooter.

Esports Players League is a new esports tournament and platform company. It plans to have a global footprint in 16 countries. While many esports organizations like ESL focus on PC and console, ESPL will devote much of its energy to mobile.

When Raji: An Ancient Epic showed up at Nintendo’s indie showcase last month, it was the well-earned culmination of a long and stressful journey for an action adventure game about a young girl chosen by the gods to be a savior. Part of what makes Raji unique, however, is where it was developed: India. There have been other games made in India, of course, but it’s rare for them to get the kind of high-profile visibility that comes with Nintendo’s backing.

Trekkies will be able to indulge in their passion for the franchise with this genuinely good RPG adaptation.

It appears Maingear has taken their proven design approach mobile, collaborated with chip-giant Intel, and produced a brand-new gaming notebook – dubbed the Element – packed with some of the most powerful hardware currently available.

It’s an incredibly ambitious concept that’s difficult to wrap our heads around, but game companies like 8 Circuit Studios — comprised of industry veterans with a century of combined experience from Nintendo, Microsoft and Electronic Arts — realize that a relatively new technology makes this possible: blockchain.

Atari is reviving Missile Command with a new game that the company calls ‘a modern take’ on the arcade classic for mobile devices. The launch of the game, called Missile Command: Recharged, coincides with this year’s 40th anniversary of the 1980 original.

ESL, a massive league for competitive gaming, is announcing
 a new set of tools that the company is specifically marketing to
independent game developers. Called ESL Matchmaking, this tool can
quickly connect players or teams against one another for head-to-head matchups.