Author: Mike
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Lucid: A new Metroidvania coming in 2024
Lucid is a new Metroidvania (with a heavy dose of Celeste-like mechanics like air dashing) from The Matte Black Studio and Apogee Entertainment that will be released in 2024. There’s also a fairly heavy emphasis on platforming. The player controls Oenn, one of the last sentinels tasked with maintaining the world’s balance. The goal is…
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Asterigos: Curse of the Stars Looks Interesting
Asterigos: Curse of the Stars is a cartoonish odyssey inspired by Greek and Roman mythology with a stripped-down version of the souls-like formula at its center. The game features multiple difficulty options, resources you get to keep even after death, and more. The story is set in a larger-than-life world of Gods and monsters. Asterigos:…
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Ghost Song: A Long-awaited Sci-fi Metroidvania Game
Old Moon’s Ghost Song is a Metroidvania game that was Kickstarted nine years ago and is finally nearing completion. The game will be released on November 3, 2022 across Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. The game follows the protagonist as they blast their way through grotesque aliens and skeletal…
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Starcraft Development Seemed Rough
This is a little older, but I hadn’t seen it until now. In a two-part post (no idea if part three exists), Patrick Wyatt describes the development process for StarCraft and the various issues the team faced. There were… a ton of issues, including a lack of experienced programmers, unrealistic deadlines, and poor code architecture.…
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I’m Too Young to Die
It’s a book about first-person shooters! I’m really into the idea, especially since it’s focusing on the 90s era. The book still has a TBD release date, but can’t wait to see more. According to the Video Game Library, the book will provide “An in-depth look at the early years of one of the most…
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Pokémon Fan Project Reimagines Gen 1
If only it was real…
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Drinking and Drafting: Strixhaven Draft 1 Golgari Counters
Match 1: 2-0 Match 2: 2-1 Match 3: 0-2 Blood Researcher + Tenured Inkcaster is an insane combo. Dina, Soul Steeper makes them lose two for each trigger. The deck had plenty of lifegain so I could easily build up the Blood Researchers. Game 3 they had very strong removal so I wasn’t able to…
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Drinking and Drafting: Time Spiral Remastered RB
I’ve been doing a few Time Spiral Remastered drafts on MTGO and wanted to record them somewhere, to try and look back to see what huge mistakes I’ve made. Also, usually drinking while drafting so I’m definitely not making optimal choices. I’ll update with wins and losses. *Update* Match 1 – 1-2 vs RB Match…
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Looking Forward to Loop Hero
I’m really looking forward to Loop Hero, a roguelike deck-builder. You don’t directly control the hero, but instead, build out the map the hero loops around. The hero moves along the path automatically, monsters spawn, the hero kills and loots them, repeat forever. There’s no release date yet announced for the game, just a general…
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Check Out Skul
Skul is a brand new pixel-art side-scrolling rogue-lite that’s out on Steam now. It has a premise where you can switch out Skul’s skull to change out the character’s class. From what I’ve seen so far, there’s a pretty large number of skull-types, so there’s a lot of variety in the gameplay. Add to that…
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Dragon Quest Translation Interview With Nob Ogasawara
An interesting interview with Nob Ogaswara about the translation work he did at Enix, which include some early Dragon Quest games such as Dragon Warrior I & II and Dragon Warrior III.
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DoomRL is Amazing and Everyone Should Play It
I mean, come on. This is amazing. How come more games don’t describe my character as a “diehard piece of shit”? Please play DoomRL.