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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

Retro-Games

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

Retro-Games

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

Retro-Games

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

Retro-Games

Staffs, Swords, and Shadows: Nightdive’s Heretic + Hexen Re-Release is Pure Magic

The Resurrection of the Dark Fantasy Kings For years, fans of the Boomer Shooter genre have been whispering into the void, begging for the same treatment given to DOOM and…

Chris February 21, 2026

Retro-Games

Slapping Imps and Hoarding Gold: Why Dungeon Keeper Still Rules the Underworld

Release Date: June 26, 1997 Developer: Bullfrog Productions Get It On: GOG It Is Good To Be Bad Let’s travel back to 1997 for a second. While every other game…

Chris February 21, 2026