Regular readers will hopefully know me by now; I’m someone who is generally willing to give even games with the absolute worst reputation a chance to shine. And in a surprising number of cases, I’ve found things to love in games that are supposedly “the worst” in their respective genre. So when I saw Capstone [...]
Bethesda dropped a nice surprise on everyone recently: a remastered version of id Software’s 1996 classic first-person shooter, Quake. And, unlike their Doom rereleases from a while back, which were an absolute mess on launch, Quake Enhanced, as the new version is called, looks set to be a benchmark for how this sort of thing [...]
[Thanks to everyone who sent me various links about this. I’ll be using Ars Technica for the main source] First person shooters in arcades – not on-rails light-gun titles, but the kind that regularly take the home console arena by storm – have never done terribly well on the coin-op scene, but they have existed. [...]
It’s been a roller coaster of a year so far, but outside of the current pause on the economy & subsequently the amusement industry, things have been shaping up to provide a strong line-up of games to the arcade business. Today, in some welcome news, we can add one more game to the list, and [...]
Beating games with a controller is one thing, but being able to wave around a big, plastic gun at a TV screen is so much more satisfying in comparison. Light gun games aren’t too big of a thing these days due to a lack of consoles or controllers that can pull this sort of thing [...]
The Quake series always had a bit of an identity crisis. Id Software bickered like children on whether the first game should be a fantasy game or a sci-fi shooter, eventually going for the latter with some sword-wielding enemies and DOOM-like weapons dumped on top. Meanwhile, its sequel, Quake II, was in no way related [...]