Category: video games

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Battleship Solitaire

    There’s something special to free games on the web. Luke Rissacher (via Tom Francis)has this quick game, Battleship Solitaire. It is  a  “mindless podcast companion” as he describes it. I like that it is simple callback to a beloved board game, and has elements of sudoku, minesweeper, and picross. Fun.

  • Burnout Paradise Remastered on March 16th for Consoles

    Electronic Arts announced a remastered version of Burnout Paradise coming to the PlayStation 4, and the Xbox One on March 16th for $40. The Windows version will be on Origin “soon” but  doesn’t have a release date yet. This version will include all of the original Paradise’s DLC, like the Big Surf Island expansion and cars that…