☆ Review: Offensive Combat: Redux "Redux, Reuse, Recycle..." ☆

I have recently played through Offensive Combat: Redux, an online First Person Shooter video game with multiple game modes like Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, and Capture the Flag.

There are also single player modes where you can explore the maps, a shooting range to test your weapons, and an Annihilator mode where you basically play against bots that run around the map.

☆ Review: A Robot Named FIGHT! "Down with the new flesh!" ☆ #GameDev #IndieGame

Procedurally generated video games can be a real mixed bag.

Sometimes they can really work well (Nongunz) and sometimes the design can falter, the balance not quite right and the punishment outweighs the rewards too much for 
the game to be truly enjoyable (Tangledeep).

A Robot Named Fight is definitely in the earlier camp.

A 16-bit style Super Metroid-esque romp through a futuristic flesh-filled labyrinth that changes each play-through.

⚽️ Was ISS Deluxe The Most Influential Soccer Game? ⚽️ #Retrogaming #SNES #PES

When I think back through all the football (soccer) video games that I have played over the years, and there’s a lot, I’m trying to think back to the game that really changed the landscape of football games and paved the way for the likes of FIFA and PES.

Naturally, people tend to think back to the first FIFA game on the SEGA Mega Drive or maybe they look at Kick-Off or maybe Sensible Soccer. 

Those games were awesome and I loved playing those games as they were fun and intuitive.

For me though the game that truly paved the way for the future of football games had to be International Superstar Soccer Pro Deluxe. This game swept me away when I saw it.

☆ The Copyright Madness Of "The Revenge Of Shinobi" ☆

Back in 1989 SEGA released the awesome SEGA Megadrive video game entitled Revenge Of Shinobi and it rocked!

Do you remember playing this awesome retro game from back in the day?

Do you remember that SEGA were treading on some mega shaky ground at the time with the use of not just one character outside of the SEGA world but 4 characters that were definitely not theirs to use!?

☆ Sometimes The First Video Game In A Series Remains The Best ☆ #Retrogaming

Have you ever played a video game that is so pure and perfect that any further iteration of that game would only ruin it?

Well I’m guessing that you have all played the game that I’m thinking of and you may disagree with my thoughts but in my opinion the first in the long running series is still by far and away the best in the series.

The series has had around 13 games released since the first game was released in August 1991 and that ’91 version is still the best.

☆ First Look: See you on the Other Side "Into Darkness" ☆ #GameDev

See You on the Other Side is a game that is currently a work in progress by Danish studio Tunnel Vision Games, Pang Man was lucky enough to catch a glimpse of the game in action at EGX REZZED 2017 and Tunnel Vision were kind enough to send us a test build to peruse.

☆ Stranger Things The Game "8 Bit Awesomeness!" ☆ #Retrogaming

A while back there was a short YouTube video that showed a mock up of a 8bit style Stranger Things video game and the whole world went 

“oooh that looks awesome! Stranger Things would make a great video game!”

We ran an article just after that video came out which looked at TV shows that would make great games and of course Stranger Things popped up.

Now fast forward to October 2017 and there is a Stranger Things mobile game!

☆ Review: SpaceBOUND "Why Ever Leave the Planet?" ☆

Oh no, there is blood everywhere! They’re both dead again…and…I really don’t care.

The trailer exclaimed it perfectly: prepare to die a lot, and I have to give them points for honest advertising. 

☆ Phantom Trigger - The Ten Minute Taster ☆

"Stan has a stroke and ends up in some crazy neon tinged slasher alternate reality, this is my kinda game, come join me!"

☆ A Visual Treat For All Video Gamers ☆

Any trip to EGX is a special event for video gamers and this years EGX was no exception.

It actually felt bigger and better this year which sounds cliche but it felt exactly that way this year with all the BIG BOYS being there and the venue just feeling that much more filled out with awesomeness.

Naturally I took a lot of pics in between playing a lot of games.

In my previous EGX article I told you all about the 5 games from EGX that you're not playing right now and now i'm going to shower you with some cool pictures from the UK Video Games Event Of The Year!

☆ "Today In Gaming" - 11th October 1994 - 2013 ☆ #Retrogaming

This is today in gaming where we look back at the games that came out "Today In Gaming" 

11th October 1994 - 2013

☆SwapQuest - Ten Minute Taster ☆ #GameDev

"Flee the purple headed horde as you create a path 
for your dashing hero in this cool puzzler RPG"

☆ Sociable Soccer "Arcade Football is back in town!" October 12th ☆ @Sociable_Soccer

Calling ALL SENSIBLE SOCCER FANS!

It's nearly time for Jon Hare to re-claim the arcade football crown as Sociable Soccer HITS EARLY ACCESS ON STEAM on October 12th 2017!

☆ Retro Review: Gradius III - Super Nintendo "a million bullets flying at you from all directions" ☆ #Retrogaming

GRADIUS III - SNES

The Intro:
There’s a point in every video game console’s life cycle when a game comes along that truly showcases the power of the hardware. 

These games push the graphical and processing capabilities of the hardware to the max, setting benchmarks for others to follow.

☆ Community Inc - Ten Minute Taster ☆ #GameDev

"Let's build a community of lovely 'Lings' who work hard and fast for 30 days and then.................SELL SELL SELL!"

☆ Review: The Kindred "I'm A Voxel Girl, In A Voxel World!" ☆

The Kindred video game will to most look like a Minecraft clone and it might sound like a creepy sect to some!

I'd say it's Minecraft inspired but not a clone, maybe a different flavour of Minecraft, a more chilled out version.

Also, some will say that it's a bit buggy right now and they'd be right BUT this is an early access game made by a very small team of devs. Each week the game is getting better and bugs are being ironed out.

Now we've set the scene, what is it actually all about gameplay wise?

☆ Review: Crest "Ever wanted to play God?" ☆

It seems like the god game is a dying breed.

Granted, we’ve never had very many of them, and the genre is apparently too tainted by Peter Molyneux’s grubby paws to stand a chance today.

Well, there’s a new kid on the block to rival the likes of Godus, and it offers a more focussed experience than our bald-bonced friend’s “you can do anything!” approach. 

Its name is Crest, and it’s currently being developed in the slow cooker that is Early Access. 

Here’s hoping it doesn’t end up half-baked.

(N.B.: this reviewer has never played a traditional god game before. Whoops.)

☆ EGX 2017 ROAD TRIP - "To Birmingham & BEYOND!" ☆ #EGX2017

"Take a look as I hit the road in search of EGX 2017, Super Mario Odyssey and a 100mph whistlestop tour of the show floor!"

☆ Super Play Magazine The Greatest Video Games Mag Of All Time ☆ #Retrogaming

I remember the ritual vividly...

As I was having to wait for a whole month for the next issue of Super Play there was a time when I would buy every available video game magazine to try and get my video game fix until the real deal came back in a months time. 

When that next issue of Super Play did drop into the local WH SMITH then I would pounce on it fresh out of the delivery truck. 

☆ Today In Gaming - 4th October 19XX ☆ #Retrogaming

Today in gaming will bring you some cool video gaming facts from years gone by from your favourite video games franchises over the years.

Let's start by heading back to 1991...