Ultimate Spider-Man DS at 21 years old proves modern games are LAZY. A full web-slinging New York, Peter Parker and Venom, touchscreen combat — on a handheld. And you thought current portable gaming was ambitious? We peaked early.
Civ V's 'one unit per tile' wasn't revolutionary, it was necessary. Turns out, if you want strategy, you need actual unit positioning. Who'd have thought? It only took them five games to get there. Discuss.
X-Men Legends: A licensed game with actual depth? 22 years ago, it defied the odds. Most tie-ins were button mashers, but this was a squad RPG. Why did we let the bar get so low for superhero games?
Star Wars: Battlefront on PS2 was pure, glorious chaos 22 years ago. It ditched the heroics to put you, a mere grunt, right into the middle of massive galactic battles. Frankly, more games need to embrace being cannon fodder.
26 years ago today, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 dropped.
The combos were addictive, but that soundtrack? It probably shaped an entire generation’s music taste. 😂
What song instantly takes you back to THPS2?
Halo Reach is 16. Prequels about known losses usually fail. Bungie's last Halo actually made Noble Six's doomed fight on Reach essential storytelling. A high bar nobody else has cleared since.
The Apothecary Diaries game IS the Ace Attorney mashup we needed. Maomao solving dark court conspiracies in her first console game? My inner detective is SCREAMING! Koei Tecmo hit a gothic fantasy home run. Early 2027, let's GO.
Mortal Kombat's controversy 33 years ago was a masterpiece of marketing. People pearl-clutching over digitized pixels? Try harder. What games actually earned their outrage?
Valve launched Steam 23 years ago. Their genius vision? An update tool. For their own games. Yeah, that's it. They really saw the future. Or maybe they just got lucky. What do you think?
Xbox wants you to play Madden NFL 27 and Borderlands 4 for free this weekend. They're just calling it Free Play Days instead of Our really good, time-limited demo. Smart. Get hooked, then pay up.
#xboxgamepass
29 years ago, Mortal Kombat 4 hit arcades. Everyone was talking about MK going 3D.
What nobody knew? They were playing the last Mortal Kombat ever made for arcades.
End of an era and we didn’t even know it.