All posts by Bo E

A hardcore gamer who loves new and retro games alike. He is known to friends for his extremely critical views on games. He's also an award winning music producer and DJ with records released worldwide.

gmDoom: Garry’s Mod Doom Mod

Just incase there weren’t enough source ports of id Software’s genre defining classic DoomGhorsHammer decided to add Garry’s Mod to the love fest. He’s taken the beloved Doom HUD, weapons and monsters and blended them into the Valve physics based FPS. While the concept isn’t really new, it does look really well done.

Check out the gameplay video below demonstrating gmDoom

GhorsHammer explains that the addon will … [ Read More... ]

New Strider artwork leaked & Steam achievement discovered

One of my favorite games of all time, Strider, might be due up for a remake from what we can tell. Leaked artwork has popped up on Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade website in addition to an achievement found in Steam’s databases. While these clues are short of a real announcement, Capcom will supposedly be revealing 2 new games at PAX East this weekend in Boston.

Here is the leaked … [ Read More... ]

Vanillaware’s Dragon’s Crown release date set for Japan & US

Dragon's Crown Vanillaware Atlus screenshot 2

The side scrolling beat’em up RPG Dragon’s Crown now has a release date in Japan according to Japanese gaming paper Famitsu. It’s being released for Playstation 3 and PS Vita on July 25, 2013.

Amazon.com & Gamestop both list show the US release date of Dragon’s Crown as August 06, 2013 for both PS3 and Vita.

The title is being developed by Vanillaware and published by Atlas.… [ Read More... ]

Shovel Knight pumps up 8-Bit retro gameplay

If you’re like me, then you love classic side scrollers like Mega Man, Contra and CastlevaniaYacht Club Games is making a love letter to the days of 8-bit side scrollers with their game, Shovel Knight. Retro looking side scrollers are indeed a dime a dozen these days, but what I like about this one is how it looks like it’s sticking true to the 8-bit graphical … [ Read More... ]