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I made a Board Game + Contest

As this post goes live, I have spent the past 2 months buried in Sketchbook Pro, 8 hours cutting tiles, Countless many hours nervously pouring my soul into a project that will follow me to Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio this week. T...

 
 
 
 

RPG of the Year - 2006

Holy shit damn, what a huge year! 57 games! And yes, there was a Sega Genesis game released this year. This is also one of those awkward years where a lot of developers were jumping to the new systems while other ones were still very uns...

 
 
 
 

RPG of the Year - 2005

Now, at first glance, this seems like a huge year. After all, there are 50 games! This was certainly a strong year for RPGs in that there were a LOT, but not so much in terms of quality. I'm confident in my top 5, but the runner ups...oh...

 
 
 
 
 
 

RPG of the Year - 2004

You think last year was a big year? Ha ha ha! This year, there are 49 games! Madness! Let's do this thang! #5 - Fable (Xbox) Let's get the obvious out of the way. Yes, it's very short. No, it didn't quite live up to everything Mol...

 
 
 
 

RPG of the Year - 2003

This is a HUGE year. There are 45 games! This is also the first year we're seeing a mobile game on the list. While you'd think this would make it hard for me to choose, just a simple glance at this list and I can already tell what's what...

 
 
 
 

TOP 7 Obscure games that ROCK.

Hello everyone. This is my first post. My information is right there on the right so, let's cut to the chase. I've been thinking for a while about what to write first, and as much as I have a few ideas for posts I really wanna write next, t...

 
 
 
 

RexwolfTrivia is back!

Hey, it's been a while since I've posted trivia, hasn't it? (The answer is yes.) Anyway, the battle for the blog is back, and let's go over the rules, shall we? First to answer wins a point. Google is allowed. First to five gets to send ...

 
 
 
 
 
 

RPG of the Year - 2002

This was a surprisingly dry year, at least compared to last year. There are only 18 games this time and sadly, not all of them are great. Let's hop into it! #5 - Elder Scrolls 3 - Morrowind (PC) ...I am not a fan of this game. And ye...

 
 
 
 

Can game mechanics spoil us?

I have been playing the Final Fantasy IV Complete on the journey to and from work the last couple of weeks. I have been struck by this screen appearing every time I start and particularly the game noting that "Game progress will not b...

 
 
 
 

RPG of the Year - 2001

Back by popular demand that I just happened to find under the sofa, I present yet another GoTY article! This was a tough year. I mean, REALLY tough. It's bad when you've played half the games on the list and LOVED them. Yeah, THAT bad. ...

 
 
 
 
 
 

Dark Void Zero is friggin' hard!

I've been playing Dark Void Zero lately. I managed to find a use for my PS3 controller and mapped the buttons to keys on my keyboard so I could use it to play DVZ but gadzooks is it difficult! I've played it for 3 hours collectively and I s...

 
 
 
 

Retro-Rant.com is now live!

That's right everyone the website retro-rant.com is now live and has all our videos embedded from youtube. Within the next few weeks Ericd will be tinkering around with it (and probably breaking it). For those of you who haven't seen Retro ...

 
 
 
 

NES controller phone case

I should've taken a picture of this years ago. This is actually the second one I've made. The first one fell out of my pocket as I rode my bike to work. I went looking for it. I found it had been crushed by an automobile. This phone is ...

 
 
 
 

Conkers Bad Fur Day (10 years latter)

Rare, or Rareware, the developer that created Conkers Bad Fur Day was in this trend of creating these incredibly vibrant adventure games. All of which were successful. Rare continued the trend of making these kinds of colourful adventure ...

 
 
 
 

Best System Evar: GAMEBOY COLOR.

If there were ever a sentence that I never thought I'd say, it would be the title of this article. I mean it! I'm a console gamer at heart. I've loved my Playstation since it took over my life at age 7, and my love for the console game w...

 
 
 
 
 
 

Brushing the Dust Off of Old Adventures

Original Post at Experience Points There just isn't anything quite like pulling an old game out from your collection and loading it up for the first time in years. The familiar sights and sounds from yesteryear tickle your senses and half...

 
 
 
 

Dear gaming gods: Please resurrect me!

I was always fond of the PC and console gaming heyday of my youth. I remember yearning for those constant chills and thrills, knowing that certain characters and games were going to stick with me for a long time to come... if not forever....

 
 
 
 

Forgotten Gems: North & South

This image just screams "historical accuracy." Back in the NES days I didn't have my own system so all of my gaming was done at other, luckier kids' houses. Since my friends didn't want to sit there for hours while I played "The Legend o...

 
 
 
 

Something about gaming magazines.

Man, remember when we used to read gaming magazines? Maybe you don't, but I do. A few days ago, while I was on my way to give a friend an old Xbox DVD remote I wasn't using, I had picked up three old gaming magazines for $5 at a Goodwill: ...

 
 
 
 

The Ultimate Megathon Smackdown! For Charity!

This is the fourth marathon quest by the BROgamers, and the first to support the Child's Play Charity. We're a group of high school kids from an arts school in Central Virginia, privy to both current-gen and retro games. We've trudged throu...

 
 
 
 

Dreamcast News Round-Up

I really hope that title made you do a double take. YES. NEWS.. First off, bullet hell shooter game developer NG:DEV sold out of the batch of Fast Striker they sent to Play-Asia. They won't release how many units they sent to them, but t...

 
 
 
 

Quickposts

Mamekuma

My current look, freshly hit level 50 and maybe halfway through Act Such deep, fleshy hooks in my So far Hammer of the Ancients > Whirlwind

 
 
hester2

Ive officially hit build paralysis in I basically love every class, so I dont know which I want to do in Thankfully this weekend is a golf weekend, so I can think it over

 
 
jobejoe

Work this week was full One way I seem to cope with stress is buying DS games I got FSR for First impression: wow, what a large car

 
 
Parismio

I almost forgot to enter the sf6 runback campaign so i can get sf2 turbo in the gallery game Game Center in Gallery isnt unlocked yet so I wonder when thatll Campaigns here

 
 
The Mars In The Mirror

Im feeling nostalgic for a time I never lived Doing some retroactive people watching wondering who these people were, what they did from that point on, where they thought they would be years on and My parents wouldve been 19 & 22

 
 
ctg867

Hot take: Insomniacs Spider-Man and Eidos Montreals Guardians of the Galaxy are the best adaptions of either sets of comic characters in any other medium

 
 
Whispering Willow

Settled on this Mayflash arcade Arrives tomorrow

 
 
Speeeven

I just fulfilled my fantasy of sheepishly telling people I wont do karaoke all day, then killing it with Frank Sinatras My Way as the very last song of the dont do This was a once in a lifetime exception

 
 
Seymour

Not sure if a Zelda image I found is too NSFW or So, drop into the comments if youre brave

 
 
Cathedral

Current status:

 
 
Queen of Philosophy

unCAGEDgamez and Caboose were among the first people to play the new Mortal Kombat He recorded a few matches, which I think gives us a better notion of the second-to-second Honestly? It looks fantastic! Cant wait to try it out for myself :3

 
 
Chris Moyse

It’s too hot for him to break into my house I’m saaaaaad Hope you’re doing ok x

 
 
RiffRaff

That Lies of P demo was pretty It bears no shame wearing that Bloodborne inspiration on its sleeve, and shirt, and pants, and shoes, and Im a bit iffy about the dodge feel but otherwise if it reviews decent enough, Im Pic

 
 
Boxed Swine

The biggest lie is that the wooden puppet is named Thats the name of the mad scientist and scholars all agree the puppet should be referred to as Pinocchios

 
 
SlimeyBearXXL979990

At the start of episode 3 part 1 of Turbo Overkill you get a upgrade for your shotgun/gernade launcher hybrid gun that makes it so when your bullets dont hit a enemy and hit a surface each of them Very fun/cool little

 
 
Boxman214

If you didnt watch Day of the Devs this year, you should! Neat Im particularly interested in Cart

 
 
Cathedral

Getting ready for some hot, sexy Diablo Guess what? Ive never played a Diablo game before!

 
 
Mamekuma

Super bummer news and unsure why this is happening since theyre not licensed games and the Switch and PS4 shop are still up, but be sure to grab at least one of these if they interest you! God Wars is a pretty good SRPG!

 
 
ChronoLynxx

Had fun watching the Summer Game Fest with Hope to see everyone on Sunday for the Xbox show! This weeks TGIF is up over in the blogs! Come say hi and let us know how our week

 
 
SlimeyBearXXL979990

So Helskate is a rogue lite skateboarding game with combat and story/art that reminds of Skateboarding roguelite is a very unique idea I admit even if I am not a fan of

 
 
ScionVyse

My newest video is done and out! I think its one of my best, I put a lot of fun stuff in it, check it out if you want!

 
 
taterchimp

(Totally Meatless Ingredients): “chicken fried” oyster mushrooms, spicy gochujang glaze, jalapeño and kimchi relish, sesame vegan mayo, black vinegar vinaigrette cabbage slaw; all on a vegan bun Not a mushroom guy, but this sounds pretty leg

 
 
ShadeOfLight

After 120+ hours, I finally feel like playing non-TotK games Still missing sidequests, probably some shrines, and a bunch of misc stuff, but I feel satisfied for I saw Neon White on sale, and that seems like a fun new

 
 
SlimeyBearXXL979990

Huh the new indie game from the devs that made Cloudpunk seems like it will use a lot of mocap Wasnt expecting that with ita visual

 
 
Mamekuma

Man you know what, I was MEGA excited for a Persona Tactics game cuz I like both of those things, and Im not a one who doesnt like the P5 cast just cuz theyre popular, but what a waste to not be Q and include all of the previous Persona Like whyy

 
 
dephoenix

We need better media literacy because the theories surrounding Spider-Man 2 are the most baseless, asinine theories I have ever Like its literally just this is what I would want, therefore thats what is going to

 
 
Chris Moyse

Flying visit, In the middle of the usual Summer steamroller, so up against But I hope you have a happy and fun Enjoy the streams, chill out, be I hope that life is treating you as kindly as I Love U x

 
 
SlimeyBearXXL979990

I am surprised to say that for the Devolver direct the game reveals felt mostly pretty boring apart from more Talos Principle 2 trailer like past years had much better trailers and game info and Devolver has loads of games cooking now so odd

 
 
dephoenix

I wonder if the Exoprimal Street Fighter designs will come to SF6 as costumes?

 
 
RiffRaff

On a huge nostalgia trip Specifically bad ass 90s ladies (PJ Harvey, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Whats on your jukebox?

 
 
Queen of Philosophy

Very few people saw it during the MK 1 gameplay trailer, but he was there! Whos ready to have Hsu Hao back?! 😆

 
 
CycloneJoker

@jobejoe : Trying this I havent been able to contact you for the key because there are several people with similar Post a direct link to your steam profile in the comments if you My steam name is silvaofwind , will contact from there

 
 
SlimeyBearXXL979990

Man its so fucking boring to see just how much of Big AAA games lately are remakes of existing They do look fun and all it just feels pretty creatively boring to I do hope next year we see less remakes and more new games in series or new

 
 
Gajknight

Fire flowing harder than the Red sea

 
 
RiffRaff

Have a great day!

 
 
SlimeyBearXXL979990

Huh apparently Spider Man in the Spiderverse has a animated lego scene and the scene was all done by a 14 year old lego animating you Thats pretty cool,I saw a bit of the scene and suprsingly it was really Really nice to see a kid get to do

 
 
Neronium

Got bored, so shell swap was Pic in

 
 
absolutfreak

All right, Im about to join the excitement, and will most likely get completely

 
 
Neronium

Note to self, go with GC Dual next time rather than Pluto HDMI Board for Itll save a lot of

 
 
Queen of Philosophy

Crappy image quality, but man! This stance, this outfit, those kombos - my Queen is back (and this time it seems like she really is queen!) 💜

 
 
Flanx

Logging in for the first time in 2 months just to say that a certain game trailer that leaked today made me cry real Legitimate adult How yall doin otherwise?

 
 
TheIntern

Here we Gory, grimy, but juuust cheeky

 
 
TheIntern

Here we Gory, grimy, but juuust cheeky

 
 
FakePlasticTree

You’re all legally allowed to post this today for various

 
 
mullon

Pat Robertson is fucking

 
 
TheLimoMaker

Just watched Across the Spider-Verse and I might have enjoyed it more than the Seeing it two more times this weekend but right now I feel like Ive just had one of THOSE positive What an exceptional fucking

 
 
GoofierBrute

When Atlus Instagram announces two Persona games, one of which is the remake of Persona 3, earlier than