Videogames
SoulFrame hour long gameplay
Planet S is a space colonizing game that's for free at the moment
The Cub is a platformer based on The Jungle Book
Rising Lords is a turn based early access game. It goes 1.0 this January
Combine tower defense, factory, and capturing sandworms
Everspace 2 gets an unreal engine 5 upgrade
The Vampire Survivors and Stardew Valley game appears to have been made. You farm for weapons and upgrades and fight for seeds.
Ultros is a cosmic gardening Metroidvania
Alone in the Dark gets a new game that retells the story… again…
Beautiful Light is a survival game with gun porn
Dawn Walker is by Witcher and Cyberpunk devs who started their own studio. Open world vampire hunting
The Crew: Motorfest is starting into events like a live service game
Decorate every building in a city builder
Dungeons of Hintenberg is a exploration game with relationship mini stories
Sail Forth is a sailingbusiness game. It was free on epic as of me posting this link
Archage 2 looks nice
Indiana Jones Game will be shown soon
Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk is an RPG
Original Fallout creator working on Outer Worlds 2
Mecha Break is a multiplayer game
Kemijou Remilia 2 coming out. It's a good metroidvania series
WarHammer 40K Rogue Trader review. Tons of mechanics and trade
VG: Far Cry Dinosaurs
Imagine Far Cry with Dinosaurs. That's instinction
I'm a bit shocked, but there's another game called Ferocious with the same premise. They may be the same game and the two sites have screwed up the names, but the description is just different enough to make them appear to be separate.
VG: Konami Ports
Rocket Raccoon and Felix
Another article
Metal Gear Solid 3 and Silent Hill 2 coming soon … again..
Metal Gear Solid Remake rumours
VG: Switch 2 Rumours
Apparently Game Shark thinks it's coming this year
Heres another person talking about the game shark saying this
VG: Boomer Shooters
Boomer Shooter is now an official term on steam
Another article!
VG: Vampire Survivors
Vampire Survivors has a new adventure mode. Here's how it works
Early access games like Vampire Survivors are doing well. The article cherry picks success to prove a point, but it does show early access is an option if done right.
Chaos mode explained
VG: Horror
Resident Evil, Unreal 5 games. Several articles. The first is an indie game.
Bunny Graveyard coming to Switch
A single creator makes one of the best horror games I've seen in a while. A woman looks for her twin in a run down Eastern European town. Aliens are involved.
Kumitantei is a murder mystery horror game based on Dangaropa
Silent Hill Ascension is an interesting idea
VG: H: Alisa
Alisa is being released soon for all the consoles. It's a 90’s remiscint survival horror
More about Alisa
VG: Lists
Side scrollers for modern consoles
Good lower tier videogames released this year. Sea of Stars and Persona 8 Tactics mentioned.
IGN predicts what to expect from Nintendo in 2024. Switch 2 is a sure thing, and they even demand it come out.
MegaDrive games exclusive to Brazil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBJrvclhTjg
Easiest Nintendo Switch games. I like a few of them.
Colony games coming out in 2024
Free games, some based on sailing
10 great upcoming Indie games
Best 32x Games
VG: Lists: Metroidvanias
Upcoming Metroidvanias
Best of 2023
Two new Metroidvanias in 2024
VG: Nintendo Switch
An opinion piece on where Nintendo is going
Another opinion piece
A wishlist
Dual screen to single screen patent
Nintendo online subscribers get extra icons
A demand to move onto Switch 2
VG: Switch: Mario treats Depression
Apparently Mario Odyssey helped people with depression during a test
It was a small sample size and the rate was 50%.
VG: Business
Unity loses 1800 employees from cutbacks.
Sag-Aftra let videogames use AI voices
Analysts predict videogames industry for 2024
Dungeons 3 is woke and the fans don't like it
Starfield has mostly negative reviews at the moment
Super Smash Bros Ultimate gets new spirits based on games that recently came out.
Bobby Kotick made games worse
Atari buys Digital Eclipse
Samsung makes controller based game centric TV
Most played games on steam deck
Halo is not getting a battle Royale
VG: B: Capcom RDM
Capcom is placing RDM on old games
It quickly took them out
VG:B: Sega
Sega of America and Europe get a new president. Its the same guy.
They have a secret series of games
Sega rumours about new old series games coming back. I think one is a bit odd, I have Panzer Dragoon on my Switch.
Desires for games series to be renewed
VG: Business: Shigeru Miyamoto
Miyamoto doesn't intend to retire. He says this in an interview.
He also said he doesn't view himself as a game designer these days.
Here's the interview
Here is another version of that interview. Look at the comment from the Guardian right after the interview.
A classic interview with him about Zelda 64 DD while it was being made
Another classic interview where he talks about Indies for satelleview.
An article about the interview above
VG: B: SM: Itoi and Miyamoto interview
This is a series of interviews between Miyamoto and the creator of Earthbound. They took it down in chunks and I don't have all of them. Its on Japanese, but the Google translate works fine. Also, it's not in the right order and I am missing two.
VG: Classics
A website has every boxart on display. The other articles are about free games to play.
Best Sega Genesis Strategy Games. I really wonder about this list…
PS3 still has more than a million users.
Daggerfall Unity is finished and up for release
A documentary on Metroid Prime
A new book about all of the N64 games is coming out. I have their PC Engine book and enjoy it.
Simpsons arcade showed Marge with rabbit ears.
Interview with Ayano Koshiro of Sega Genesis music fame.
This could be in the business section as well. Retailers self fulfilled prophecy by not ordering specific games they thought wouldn't sell. The isometric RPG died because of it.
Someone built his own Nintendo PlayStation
An interview with Satoru Iwata from 2004. There is a lot of narrative here. Some of it very false by Stephen Totilo. The comments themselves are very nice.
Age of Empires was made using assembly
Sony game for NES has been found and preserved
How to play Colossal Cave Adventures. It's a nearly 50 year old MUD.
Check out the original XBox prototype
Vietnam from the Build Engine for DOS
15 best Mega Gear Soundtracks
The best Zelda is the one you played when you were 13
Sonic Heroes 2 Prototype found
Secret of Mana had amazing colors
Earthbound to be celebrated this year
Best 32x Games
VG: Design
Talking about concept art in the game Xenoblade 3
Desperados 3 was great but failed
Always Prototype your games first
Silent Hill Ascension has problems
Interview with creators of new Contra game
Microsoft will have a Designer Direct January 18th
Unreal Engine 6 is talked about
Interview with creators of Hunt Showdown
Procedural building creation
VG: D: Unity
Unity has fired a quarter of their workers
Unity is not doing well financially
VG: D: Unity: Open Source
Apparently they are a bit odd about open source
Unity has open sourced a bunch of their work
VG: Mods and Fan Made
A ghosts and goblins fan make
Fan remake of WarCraft 2 with Warcraft 3 engine
Tetris has been beaten. Don't know where to put this
Unreal Engine 5 Counter Strike remake
NFC Mister loader
Star Field has mechs
Zero Punctuation ends
Fans of a World War II MMO do weird stuff and then crash the server
Legacy of Kain Unreal Engine Remake
Skyrim ayed like Daggerfall
VG: Mods: Half Life
Half Life as a Doom action game
Play Half Life backwards
VG: Classic Indie
HAM is now useable for colors on the Amiga. Expect games to look a lot nicer for the old computer.
Build your own GameBoy Mini Camera
City of Heroes fan server has become official
A new mini console…. The Atari 400 XL!
Nox Archaist will release for the Apple IIe and modern PC
Aeon Legends is coming out for Amiga
Dottie Flowers gets a physical release for Super Nintendo
Metroid ported to Super Nintendo
VG: CI: Portal 64
Portal 64 is a demake now on release
It was given a take down letter by Valve
Another article on the take down order
Garry’s Mod creator responds to why fan remakes of games still for sale are not allowed on steam. Especially Valve made games.
VG: CI: Castlevania
Longplay of Castle in the Sky, a Castlevania style game.
Another Castlevania like PC games
Castlevania for the Amiga
VG: CI: C: Simon Quest
Transylvania Adventure Simon Quest trailer
It's getting a few articles
VG:CI:C: Symphony of the Night on Saturn
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for the Saturn got a fan upgrade.
Another article on the upgrade
One more article
And another
VG: Classic Indie: Sega
A list of games released for various Sega consoles
The same guy is making a port of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for the Genesis/ Mega Drive
He also has tutorials on how to program for the Genesis/ Mega Drive
Sega Lord X talks about the same subject and references this guy
Fan port of Final Fight to Mega Drive
Fan Port of X-Men Arcade to Sega Saturn
Final Fantasy VII on Saturn
Street Fighter Alpha on mega drive
VG: Scenes
A Virtual Walk through a forest
Unreal Engine 5.3 render II "The Lake Street" II …:
A London spot
Winter Cabin
A stylized island
Rain
VHS aesthetics
Winter forest
Photorealism!
VG: S: Anime
Anime single shot beauty
The classic Anime look in Blender
VG: Graphics
Assassin’s Creed with a bunch of graphics mods
Halo Combat Evolved with Graphics Mods
Cyberpunk 2077 with Mods
LotR Conquest is remade in the Unreal Engine
What was the biggest graphical upgrade in a single generation?
VG: G: RTX
Max Payne gets an RTX upgrade by fans
Half Life 2 getting a graphics upgrade
Nice. Thanks for all the links.
You're welcome.
"Finish! The fucking story, man!! What happened?!"
Even the story writer has moved on. It's that girl you had an awesome time with and never saw again.
What I meant was that the link isn't complete. You got me on tenterhooks.
The posts have a letter limit. Here is the last part again. I had to post the last part of the AI post in the comments as well.
VG: G: RTX
Max Payne gets an RTX upgrade by fans
https://archive.ph/O1BW4
Half Life 2 getting a graphics upgrade
https://archive.ph/EcpSa
Thanks.
Thanks for all this stuff.
I was interested in Sail Forth when I first heard about it, but I only needed one good look to see that it isn't for me.
They're probably aiming at a younger audience with the Fortnite graphics and the oversimplified sailing.
I'm still holding out for more games like Sailwind.
There are tons of games coming out. I will try to post about sailwind on the next list.