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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

Modding

The Empire’s Finest: TIE Fighter Total Conversion is a Must-Play Masterpiece

For many of us, Star Wars: TIE Fighter, the 1994 masterpiece from Totally Games, remains the gold standard of space combat simulators, offering a rare and thrilling perspective from the…

Chris May 7, 2026

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X-Wing: Alliance – The Greatest Flight Through a Galaxy Far, Far Away

Release Date: March 28, 1999 Developer: Totally Games Get It On: GOG There is a specific kind of magic that happens when a development team is at the absolute top…

Chris May 6, 2026

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The Infinite Ambition of the Iliac Bay: A Daggerfall Retrospective

Release Date: September 20, 1996 Developer: Bethesda Softworks Get It On: GOG When Games Were Too Big for Their Own Good Back in the mid-nineties, the gaming industry was a…

Chris April 26, 2026

Retro-Games

A Gem in the Rough: Why Torchlight Still Shines

Release Date: October 27, 2009 Developer: Runic GamesGet It On: GOG The Pedigree of Greatness If you were hanging around the gaming scene back in the late 2000s, you probably…

Chris April 10, 2026

Retrospectives

MMO-History 101: A Look Back at Ultima Online

In 1997, a game called Ultima Online (UO) dropped us into a world that felt less like a piece of software and more like a second life. Developed by Origin…

Chris April 3, 2026

Retrospectives

The Digital Wild West: When Norrath Ruled the World

If you were around in 1999, you probably remember a very different internet. It was a time of screeching 56k modems, AOL chat rooms, and a total lack of hand-holding…

Chris March 29, 2026

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Cybernetic Fever Dreams and Severed Limbs: BioForge is one of the Best Games You’ve Never Played

Release Date: March 29, 1995 Developer: Origins Systems Get It On: GOG In the mid-90s, every PC game box promised a "cinematic experience" that would melt your motherboard. Most of…

Chris March 2, 2026