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Retro Review: Remembering the Glorious Destruction of MechWarrior 4: Vengeance

There is a very high chance your hard drive was vibrating under the weight of FASA Interactive and Microsoft’s absolute masterpiece: MechWarrior 4: Vengeance back in late 2000. It was…

Chris May 24, 2026

Retro-Games

Retro Review: Why Duke Nukem Forever (And Its DLCs) Deserve a Second Chance

Initially announced way back in 1997, Duke Nukem Forever became the poster child for what happens when perfectionism, engine swaps, and developmental chaos collide over a staggering fourteen-year period. When…

Chris May 19, 2026

Reviews

Why Digital Eclipse’s Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection is a Historical Masterpiece

Hey there, fellow kombatants! Grab your quarters and blow the dust off your old fight sticks, because we need to talk about one of the most wild retro packages to…

Chris May 18, 2026

Retro-Games

Heavy Metal Masterpiece: Looking Back at MechWarrior 3 and Pirate’s Moon

Release Date: MechWarrior 3: June 1, 1999 Pirate's Moon: December 3, 1999 Developer: Zipper Interactive Back in the late nineties, the PC gaming landscape was an absolute wild west of…

Chris May 17, 2026

Retro-Games

The Ultimate Dieselpunk Flight Fantasy: Remembering Crimson Skies

Crimson Skies: Release Date: September 17, 2000 Developer: Zipper Interactive Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge: Release Date: October 21, 2003 Developer: FASA Studio Imagine a world where the Great…

Chris May 16, 2026

Retrospectives

A SiN Franchise Retrospective: Why the 90s Most Ambitious Shooter is Making a Comeback

The 1998 Rivalry That Time Almost Forgot You probably know that 1998 was basically the "Year Zero" for the modern first-person shooter. We had heavy hitters like Half-Life and Unreal…

Chris May 15, 2026

Retro-Games

The Wasteland Revisited: A Deep Dive into KKND and its Atomic Legacy

Krush, Kill 'N Destroy (KKND 1) Release Date: 1997 | Developer: Beam Software / Melbourne House Buy It On: GOG Krush, Kill 'N Destroy 2: KrossfireRelease Date: 1998 | Developer:…

Chris May 11, 2026

Retro-Games

The Best Mech Game Ever Made? A Deep Dive into MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries

Release Date: September 25, 1996 (MS-DOS and Windows 95) Developer: Activision Back in 1996, the world was a very different place. We were rocking dial-up internet, wearing way too much…

Chris May 10, 2026

Retro-Games

Neon Skies and Heavy Metal: A Deep Dive into MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat

Release Date: July 24, 1995 (MS-DOS) Developer: Activision If you grew up in the mid-90s and had access to a PC that wasn’t a complete potato, there is a very…

Chris May 9, 2026

Gaming News

The Grandfather of RPGs Returns: Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord Remake

To understand where the modern Role-Playing Game truly began, you have to go back to a time when graphics were made of lines, "storage" meant a floppy disk, and difficulty…

Chris May 7, 2026