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The Diminutive ’80s Ninja Gets the All-Star Treatment The Diminutive ’80s Ninja Gets the All-Star Treatment Modern remakes of last century’s games don’t always succeed. For every Cotton Reboot! or Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap ...

I’m a cowboy…on steel legs I stride… Twin-stick shooters with roguelike qualities are pervasive on Steam. But with invigorating play mechanics, ample rewards for perseverance, and an aesthetic that balances style with performance, Dust & ...

The best air simulation on Switch doesn’t let you in the cockpit What is the concept? Following in the contrails of Sonic Powered’s 3DS-based air traffic simulations, I Am an Air Traffic Controller AIRPORT HERO HANEDA ...

If you grew up during the 1990s, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was hard to miss. Beyond becoming a fixture for the Fox Kids programming block, the series grew into a pop culture phenomenon, spawning two ...

This week, PlayStation VR 2 makes its debut, offering a significant technical upgrade over the previous hardware. The looming question is whether the peripheral’s software library will be enticing enough to prompt players to drop ...

Bringing a Knife to a Gunfight Wanted: Dead signals its inadequacies early, with cinematics that attempt to ape the simmering intensity of Michael Mann and the cadenced banter of Quentin Tarantino. The opening scene reveals ...

These are exceptional ports with all the in-game extras you could ask for. But sadly, there’s little context or presentation to connect these games. Any respectable overview of shooting game history wouldn’t be complete without ...

Toying with your expectations like a Mimic. Although dungeon crawls are habitually gratifying, they are often gloomy experiences that don’t customarily tamper with convention. As a spiritual successor to 2018’s Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of ...

This week, Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society sends us dungeon-crawling, Wanted: Dead provokes swinging and shooting, while Souls of Chronos (pictured) will have us stopping time for a strategic advantage. PlayStation 4 Go! Go! ...

The 1990s were an austere era for Kamen Rider. Although Shotaro Ishinomori’s popular tokusatsu was adapted into stage shows and a trio of films across the decade, 1988’s Kamen Rider Black RX was the century’s ...