“We might make a name for ourselves after all…” In a pre-prequel, pre-Disney’s Star Wars world, almost any game featuring George Lucas’ galaxy-spanning space opera […]
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Marble Madness – Cane and Rinse No.645
“EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG” Mark Cerny’s first full project as a prodigious teen game creator (after coding a ‘mushroom growing algorithm’ for Millipede) was Atari’s […]
JuJu Densetsu (Toki) – Cane and Rinse No.644
“The evil hand of BASHTAR has seized the lovely MIHO.” Representing the tiny overlap in the Venn diagram of at least two niche subgenres (prehistoric […]
Manifold Garden – Cane and Rinse No.643
“…” Installation artist, juggler, balloon artist and first-time game developer William Chyr told himself it would take three months to design a Portal-sized puzzle game. […]
Perfect Dark Zero – Cane and Rinse No.642
“If you make like you’re a DeathMatch hotshot you should be able to bluff your way into the party.” After a tumultuous few years of company […]
Dragon Age: Inquisition – Cane and Rinse No.641
“If you love a character, you give them pain, ruin their lives, make them suffer.” Just ahead of the release of the fourth instalment in […]
Dredge – Cane and Rinse No.640
“Throw me back.” What better way to spend time in the ocean than to fish while trying not to succumb to ancient malices from the deep? […]
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy – Cane and Rinse No.639
“Good speech. Blast him.” Marvel’s relatively obscure comic book sci-fi misfits received a huge boost in recognition with their first MCU movie in 2014. Following a […]
Vampire Killer / Castlevania: Bloodlines / The New Generation – Cane and Rinse No.638
“TWO YOUNG VAMPIRE HUNTERS SET OUT TO FULFILL THEIR DESTINY….” New protagonists for a new era. Initially, officially, considered to be a gaiden, Konami’s second […]
Sonic 3 & Knuckles – Cane and Rinse No.637
“Go! Go! Go! Go-go!” It could have been Sonic 3D, but the tech wasn’t ready. In fact, the game itself wasn’t entirely ready when it […]
Vampire Survivors – Cane and Rinse No.636
“Thank you Poe, but the vampire is in another coffin.” Vampire Survivors started off as a solo developer effort that turned into a huge indie […]
Yie Ar Kung-Fu – Cane and Rinse No.635
“HOT FIGHTING HISTORY” Yie Ar Kung-Fu marked the first appearance of many core one-on-one fighting game tenets that remain in use fully 40 years later. […]