Author: Jack Slater
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3D Realms’ Ion Maiden is Surprisingly Good?
The husk of 3D Realms has published a new BUILD-engine game, Ion Maiden, developed by Voidpoint. In Steam’s Early Access program, It has the atrocious Shelly “Bombshell” Harrison character from 3D Realms’ twin-stick shooter, Bombshell. I completely forgot about that game before it was even released. Rock Paper Shotgun’s John Walker has impressions of what you get…
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Never Stop Sneakin’ on Steam
Dean Dodrill’s Never Stop Sneakin’ has finally hit Steam after being released on the Nintendo Switch late last year. It still looks like a brilliant, but perhaps too repetitive, satirical reduction of Metal Gear Solid minus all the complex controls. I’m so glad that this is a thing in the world. Never Stop Sneakin’ is typically $15, but it…
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Into the Breach Breached
Subset Games’ FTL was a huge hit for anyone looking to get into the realm of managing spaceships in difficult times. Their follow-up, Into the Breach, looks a bit closer to Final Fantasy Tactics or Advance Wars, which are all the good kinds of wars. Alex Wiltshire liked it a lot: If you’ve played FTL,…
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Chrono Trigger’s Surprise Steam for Windows Release
Square surprised us all today with a version of Chrono Trigger up on Steam for Windows. No announcement before the release, just up on the shop it goes. What would be more surprising than that? What if it turned out that this is really a not-so-hot port of the mobile game? Expectations tempered. It’s $15…
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Puyo Puyo Tetris is on Windows Today
That sounds like a morning breakfast show, doesn’t it? Well, Windows Today isn’t a thing, but Puyo Puyo Tetris is out for Windows via Steam, today, it’s $20. I played a short bit and it felt just as good as it does on the Switch, which reviewed well as we discussed previously. It is very…