I’ve seen some very liberal re-imaginations of classic franchises like Syndicate and XCOM over the last few years, but this is the most hilarious of them all. Asteroids, that fun arcade shooter from the classic days of Atari, is getting a whole new look as an open-world, sandbox survival game. Yes, following the success of other online survival games, Asteroids: Outpost will task...
How much are you prepared to pay for a broken video game that was made for a console not even in circulation anymore? Never mind the fact that it was buried in concrete for nearly three decades! Well, we are about to see nerd history exploited for the sake of capital in ways unlike any we’ve seen before! The Alamogordo City Commission has decided that 700 of the 1,300 E.T. the Extra-...
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, a 1982 national treasure directed by Steven Spielberg, is a terrific movie about a young boy whose life is changed by the arrival of a small and charming alien. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial game, however, released the same year and published by Atari, is widely regarded as one of the worst the industry as ever seen. Duke Nukem Forever bad, an atrocity against...
The film E.T. (1982) was historic. Not only was it a landmark piece of cinema, but it was also responsible for what many gamers consider the worst video game of all time. It was so bad, simply ending production wasn't good enough. Word has it that Atari scooped up millions of the returned cartridges, filled 10 to 20 semi-trucks with them and buried them in a landfill out in Alamogordo,...
What started out as an April Fools’ joke is now a $99 retro gaming reality. ThinkGeek teamed up with Ion Audio to make iCade real, and they were kind enough to send one our way for review. If you grew up in arcades or know someone who did, you just might be interested enough to click PLAY on the video review above. If not, well, watch anyway and you’ll get a nine minute lesson in...
Classic gaming has come to the iPhone and iPad in a big way with the release of Atari’s Greatest Hits (iTunes link).  While the app emulator itself is free, and comes with the classic game of Pong, additional games will cost you 99¢ for a four pack, or $14.99 for a whopping total of 100 games.  (you can see the full list at the bottom of this post) The games are a mixture of some of...
One of the nice things about the PC as a gaming platform is that it pretty much has – in some form or another – every game ever. On the downside, however, that means heaps upon heaps of would-be classics get shoveled off the assembly line and straight into the fiery furnace of history. There are simply too many games, and without that all-important multi-million dollar advertising...
At the beginning of the current console generation, Test Drive Unlimited was able to make its mark through an online experience that could only later be trumped in the car driving genre by Burnout Paradise. Now, developer Eden Games is making another run for your money with Test Drive Unlimited 2. Will it be a worthy installment in the Test Drive series? With thousands of miles of road...
Developer Eden Games is making another run for your money with the MMO-racer Test Drive Unlimited 2. Will it be a worthy installment in the Test Drive series? At the beginning of the current console generation, Test Drive Unlimited was able to make its mark through an online experience that would only later be trumped in the car driving genre by Burnout Paradise. Now, developer Eden...