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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 10/31/20 at 07:04 PM CT
Welcome back to another look into… the past. Where dead games receive new life in the form of ports, remakes, and remasters, in the hope that the new generation of gamers is stupid (they are) enough to buy them when their forerunners (who were also generally quite stupid) weren’t. With the onset of November, we’re into what was traditionally Holiday Season territory, but with 2020 being the...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 10/25/20 at 05:12 PM CT
The 8th Generation is coming to its inevitable close, and that means it’s time to start thinking about new system purchases. While I have little-to-no interest in either the PlayStation 5 or the Xbox SeX, thanks in large part to rumors of useful functionality turning out to be false, sometime next year, after COVID-19 is ...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 10/18/20 at 04:18 PM CT
I have already written in-depth about the late-‘80s collaboration between Milton-Bradley and Games Workshop known as “HeroQuest,” and my eternal admiration and respect for the hybrid board game/role-playing game that introduced me, and my entire generational cohort, to the wondrous world of Fantasy Role-P...
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 10/11/20 at 02:59 PM CT
While it may have gotten lost in the shuffle of other news, including both the COVID-19 pandemic and the months-long E3 substitute presentations by game developers and platform holders, one of the most interesting nuggets of information to appear over the course of Summer 2020 is a report that Nintendo has “
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Nelson Schneider - wrote on 10/04/20 at 05:27 PM CT
Two years ago, when Microsoft started gobbling up the small-time Single “A” developers that popped-up like so many nomadic tribes after the collapse of the Pre-Columbian Latin American empires, I pointed out that these shattered fragments of the once-great InterPlay – the only publisher from gaming’s
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