3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (726+ words) Tech-Gaming One recurring detail in Toaplan’s shooters is military hardware. Tiger-Heli established this trend in 1985, pitting your lone copter against an army of tanks, warships, and gunboats. Two years later, Flying Shark sent an incredibly mobile biplane into a similar…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (615+ words) Since being a toddler, Robert Allen has been immersed in video games, anime, and tokusatsu. Currently, his days are spent teaching at two southern California colleges. But his evenings and weekends are filled with STGs, RPGs, and action titles and…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (818+ words) SPRAWL zero turns firefights into a frantic improvisational scramble. You’ll drain, throw, and replace weapons while your Gravity-Gloves send bullets, barrels, and enemies flying. Its murky navigation, and late-game bullet sponges sometimes can spoil the flow, but once you drop…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (823+ words) Aggelos 2 doesn’t try to reinvent the metroidvania, but its dual-realm exploration, satisfying progression, and retro looks make it easy to enjoy. A confusing map and crowded controls occasionally clip its wings, but this charming adventure still manages to soar. I…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (455+ words) Stellar Jockeys have spent the last seven years developing a follow-up to 2016’s Brigador. Although Brigador Killers retains the original game’s destructive isometric action, its protracted development period reflects some larger ambitions. Brigador Killers does more than revisit its predecessor’s…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (375+ words) For almost three decades, Brigandine has occupied a curious part of the strategy-RPG genre map. The original PlayStation game merged the territorial contests of a grand-strategy game, hex-based tactical titles, and a roster of fantastical monsters, which turned out to…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (449+ words) But the problem is that the island has more personality than the people living on it. Starsand’s farming will be familiar to anyone who has played Stardew Valley, Story of Seasons or any of the countless derivative life-sims. Fields are…...