Bungie had an unspoken rule for Halo cinematics: “Never make the player in the cinematic feel more ‘badass’ than the actual game” November 5, 2025 / admin / retro news A pair of ex-Halo designers are reminiscing on the series’ golden years Read More 2019
Tim Robinson’s darkly madcap comedy thriller The Chair Company is the perfect antidote to the most overused trope on TV November 5, 2025 / admin / retro news NOW WATCHING | Tim Robinson’s The Chair Company is holding up an absurd and awkward mirror to one of TV’s most tiring trends Read More 2019
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 boss hands The Outer Worlds 2 a “7/10,” hopes Obsidian spends “all of Microsoft’s money” on RPGs more like Fallout New Vegas and, also, like Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 November 5, 2025 / admin / retro news “I would bet that budget for KCD2 was WAY LOWER than Outer Worlds 2” Read More 2019
Former Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry lead says the Simpsons game they worked on “is underrated” and “being able to walk around a recreation of Springfield was pretty fun in of itself” November 5, 2025 / admin / retro news No word on if the devs slept nude in an oxygen tent in the belief it might give them development powers Read More 2019
The Logitech G515 Rapid TKL is one of the first magnetic low profile keyboards, and there’s a reason there aren’t more | Review November 5, 2025 / admin / retro news The Logitech G515 Rapid TKL is one of the first low profile magnetic keyboards I’ve seen, and there might be good reason for that. Read More 2019
The latest Sonic game is getting ripped apart on Steam: “In what world can you get a whole, fully featured, actually fun racing game for less than the price of 2 skins here” November 5, 2025 / admin / retro news Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds doesn’t have any competition with Sonic Rumble Read More 2019
Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con are back to their lowest ever price at Woot November 5, 2025 / admin / retro news The official Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con 2 controllers are down to their lowest ever price at Woot, just in time for the holidays. Read More 2019
Another win for story-driven single-player games as superhero comedy Dispatch sells a “pretty good” 1 million copies in 10 days November 5, 2025 / admin / retro news Support from the Critical Role fandom is only part of Dispatch’s success Read More 2019
Plant powers rule in Alruna: End of History, a grimdark Metroidvania about reclaiming industrial spaces, and I love the condensed approach to maps that still pack secrets November 5, 2025 / admin / retro news Hands-on | Alruna: End of History is a Metroidvania that with blooming good powers Read More 2019
From the moment development started on Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, the goal was to “reinstate Marvel as a pillar of the fighting game community” November 5, 2025 / admin / retro news Marvel Games’ general manager says the team wanted to “bring out that unmistakable ArcSys identity,” too Read More 2019