A few days ago, my attention was stopped short by this headline on Mashable: GameStop basically just turned itself into a Blockbuster for video games Wait…what? Is exactly what I thought. And the article that followed said exactly what the headline promised. It seems GameStop is getting in the rental game…sort of. In short, later…
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Sphinx and The Cursed Mummy is Coming to PC!
Fans of Gamecube/PS2 classics will be in for a treat next week! For those unaware, Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy is an action-adventure game set in mythical Egypt. Players take on the role of Sphinx and his reluctant helper, The Mummy, as they travel around the ancient world to collect the stolen magical crowns of…
Tricks, Treats, and Feats: Zelda Tricks from OoT to BotW
I always find a certain satisfaction in discovering new ways of doing something in my favorite video games, especially when my methods involve a trick the developer never intended us to employ. While I avoid anything that involves glitches or other exploits, that doesn’t mean that some of my tricks aren’t mighty useful nonetheless. You…
Trick, Treats, and Feats: Dead Space’s First Trailer
I’ve kinda had Dead Space on the mind ever since I read the news that EA had decided to shutter Visceral Games. I don’t have any tricks, treats or feats to share on it, but I noticed something rather cool about the game’s very first trailer from E3 2008. So to start things off, lets…
YouTube Highlights, Weekly Edition #32
Hey, everyone! Thanks for coming back for another YouTube Highlights post! If you didn’t know it already, Fridays are when we share a smattering of the videos that we’ve posted over the course of the week. And it looks like we had another pretty good week, what with classic games, classic platforming, and boss battles…
Tricks, Treats, and Feats: Bottles’ Revenge
Is it just me, or is there something rather unsettling when parts of a game are cut from the finished product, but remain, nonetheless, as part of the game’s code? It’s kind of like discovering a hidden, boarded-up room on the other side of your bedroom wall, or learning that your house was built atop…
Tricks, Treats, and Feats: Dragon Shores
The PS1/PS2 era Insomniac Games really knew how to do bonuses right. They included whole spaces for cut-content in the Ratchet & Clank games, hid demos for Crash Bandicoot in their Spyro games, and the reward for completing those Spyro games was always a special world for their most dedicated players to enjoy. “Dragon Shores”…
YouTube Highlights, Weekly Edition #31
Is it the end of the week already?! Not that we’re complaining, but it seems that time really does fly when you’re having fun. And we’ve been having loads of fun! Between our Trick, Treats, and Feats posts and our ongoing Let’s Plays, October 2017 is so far a month to remember. Speaking of which,…
Tricks, Treats, and Feats: Gifting in Dragon Age: Origins
If you’ve played even just a few hours of a recent BioWare game, you know that one of the developer’s hallmarks is personal interaction. As a character in one of its games, players are given opportunities to interact with NPCs and teammates to varying degrees, from skin deep to much deeper. The ability to personally…
Assassin’s Creed: Origins Gets Cool Live-Action Trailer
Live action trailers for games are always cool. It doesn’t matter what game they happen to be advertising, it’s cool since we’re getting a glimpse of what it might look like in reality. In the case of this trailer, the game is Assassin’s Creed: Origins and the setting is ancient Egypt. Check it out!
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