Video Game Reviews, Articles
Aubrey Hodges, best known for his moody and ambient soundtrack for DOOM on the PlayStation and N64, has released an extended version of the PlayStation version of Final DOOM‘s soundtrack. The composer wrote on his Bandcamp page: “At last! Final…
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Mikel & GameChops have released a follow-up to their Zelda & Chill lo-fi hip hop cover album. It features 14 new remixes from Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda franchise, including iconic tunes like ”The Great Sea’, ‘Song of Healing’, and ‘Midna’s…
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Bounding Box Software Inc.’s Prodeus has been making rounds in the boomer shooter community ever since it cropped up on Kickstarter a few years back. Now, it’s finally out in Early Access on Steam. If you like DOOM-style gameplay with…
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The remastered vinyl release of Trent Reznor’s skin-crawling soundtrack for Quake, the world’s first fully-3D first-person shooter, has been on the Nine Inch Nails merchandise store for years upon end. For the longest of time, it was “coming soon”. Finally,…
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Fans of Valve Software’s beloved war-themed hat simulator Team Fortress 2 are in for a treat today. The game’s official soundtrack release, TF2 Fight Songs, has recently received a free expansion pack featuring a trio of previously unreleased tunes from…
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Longtime fans know how strikingly juxtaposing the series is, with their straight-faced plot lines going hand-in-hand alongside the slew of dopey side-quests and goofy distractions. Of course, that includes karaoke, the rhythm-based mini-game that really took the gaming world by…
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Official soundtrack releases for games developed in Japan tend to remain exclusive to their own country, respectively. It’s pretty disappointing when this happens, as titles like the Yakuza series (or, Ryu Ga Gotoku if you hail from the land of…
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“You’re a kid now! You’re a squid now!” Seriously, who would’ve guessed a kid-friendly, team-based shooter like Splatoon would’ve become a smash-hit success for Nintendo? Not only did the innovative gameplay – blasting globs of ink in kid-form with various…
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Inspired by the RPG-themed first-person shooters of yesteryear (i.e. Heretic and Hexen), Amid Evil has finally made its way out of Early Access after over a year of gradual content updates. In it, an evil force has spread across the…
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In ‘No Pay 2 Play’, we review free video games (whether they’re riddled with microtransactions and season passes or not) and then answer the golden question: is it worth adding to your game library? Boring Stuff Developed and published by…
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Hail to the king, baby! This is an interview with professional voice actor and radio presenter Jon St. John, famously known as the voice of Duke Nukem. After the release of two successful side-scrollers and a critically-acclaimed first-person shooter, Duke was…
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There was a time when every first-person shooter tried to be the next Halo or Call of Duty, favouring heavy plots and linear levels. Health would regenerate magically, and you could only carry two weapons at a time. In short,…
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Hovercraft, headbanging-music and explosive weaponry – welcome to the future of racing, ladies and gentlemen! British studio Psygnosis released Wipeout in 1995 to an unexpected gaming audience, and the title was all about speeding through race tracks as catchy electronica…
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Few could have predicted a game to rival the likes of id Software’s revolutionary first-person shooter DOOM. In 1996, 3D Realms released the rude ‘n’ crude alien frag-a-thon Duke Nukem 3D to critical acclaim. The game was packed with cheesy…
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In the battle of graphics vs gameplay there is of course only one winner. For every dire but pretty Rise of the Robots, there is a superior if plainer looking Sensible Soccer. But what about music? It is not as…
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