• Scratching the Itch.io #18

    ...a little on the expensive side at €7.49 (~$9.30), but developing a quality 3D game isn’t cheap. Compared to $60 for a AAA title, that’s a deal. Those were the...

  • Bleach: Heat the Soul (PSP)

    ...you need to do is whittle down the enemy’s health using cheap tactics and then you win! With only five playable characters (six including the one and only hidden character),...

  • What Nintendo Didn’t Want You to Know

    ...sensor), a front facing camera, a microphone, stereo speakers, rumble features, a sensor bar, an included stylus and support for Near Field Communication (NFC) functionality. It is powered by a...

  • Dragon Warrior II (NES)

    ...only graphical part of the game that is moderately impressive. I can imagine that Akira Toriyama doesn’t come cheap. Malroth…or, maybe some form of Cell from Dragon Ball Z. The...

  • Crimsonland Coming to Steam and PlayStation 4

    ...but with better graphics and without the song?”, and the answer is “yes”. “Yes, MAED is a cheap knockoff of a free game that came out several years earlier.” But...

  • Localization Anxiety: Nintendo World Cup

    ...looks exactly the same. The game only changes the palette colors depending on the team you’re selecting. That just feels a little cheap to me. This is how the USA,...

  • Shovel Knight (PC)

    ...fair throughout, with no cheap shots or cheating bosses. It’s a learning experience up there with the absolute best, splicing modern videogame friendliness to old-school videogame cruelty in the most...

  • StarSweep (PS1)

    ...to play it. If they hadn’t been so cheap in my local retro video game retailer, on that ever so fateful day, I’d have never walked away with Jigsaw Madness...

  • BLACK (MXB)

    ...designers cheap out and block your path with tiny piles of debris and even invisible walls. “I could reach that secret stash of ammo if it weren’t for this wooden...

  • This Week in ‘Cola: Hurricane Preparedness Edition

    ...thanks, guys. • And finally, by far the biggest news of the week was that GameStop did something horrible. (But you could probably copy-and-paste that into any number of “This...