Author: Jack Slater

  • Nidhogg 2 Day

    Couch 1v1 stab-em-up Nidhogg 2 is out today. I loved the first game’s vaguely Atari 2600-era graphics. This one appears to have a “Weird ass SNES” style going on, complete with a Yoshi’s Island world map and online multiplayer. So close! #Nidhogg2 launches Aug15th on #PlayStation4 https://t.co/z8yihneTwU and #Steam https://t.co/VMVKlQsg2i Preorder for a discount! pic.twitter.com/D94FzxxhCA…

  • West of Loathing

    About 14 years ago a game called Kingdom of Loathing sprang out of the wacky mind of Zack Johnson. Kingdom is a free, wacky, online browser-based RPG with goofy hand-drawn stick figures, and funny as hell. It’s been so long since I played that I can’t even remember what email address I ever used to…

  • StarCraft Remastered Available

    Blizzard have gone and done it, the remastered versions of StarCraft and its expansion Brood War are available on Battle.net for Windows and macOS at $15. Back when these remasters were announced Blizzard had said that the Battle.net name was going away, they’ve gone back on that and will now call it Blizzard Battle.net, which…

  • Spelunky Creator Making 50 Game Multicart With Friends

    Derek Yu, the developer of the amazing Spelunky side-scrolling rando-caver is putting together a multi-game collection called UFO 50 with a team of 4 other developers and artists. It’ll be 50 games that they reassure us are “…full games and not microgames or minigames!” Each game will have its own director, although all of the…

  • Slime Rancher out of Early Access

    The extremely adorable Slime Rancher has exited out of Steam’s Early Access and is available on Steam for Windows, macOS, and Linux as well as on the Xbox One where it’s currently available for free to anyone who has the Xbox Live Gold subscription. Otherwise it’s $20, except for right now when it’s on sale…