EA shuttered BioWare, the Edmonton studio behind Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, Jade Empire, and Baldur’s Gate. A tongue-in-cheek farewell to the Sonic Chronicles cliffhanger, Dr. Eggman, and 31 years of RPG history.
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Abbott and Costello return to comics in Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters, a horror-comedy crowdfunding comic on Kickstarter. The classic comedy duo faces Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, and more classic movie monsters in their first new comic book adventure in 50 years.
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Liz left the cage doors open at Site-19… again. Stupid Liz… Indian indie (*snick!*) development studio Zatun recently dropped a launch trailer for SCP: Project Pneuma, its first-person, psychological survival horror game built on the SCP Foundation (Special Containment Procedures) mythos. The full game is landing on October 25 via Steam Early Access. Yes, that would be this coming Sunday.
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iDiOSLAB’s Delve Survivors turns the survivors-like formula turn-based. Its expanded demo hits Steam Next Fest with 4 dungeons, 3 classes and hundreds of items.
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“RPGs have lost their identity.” No argument there. Deck13 Spotlight recently announced Lair of the Leviathan, an old-school turn-based RPG for PC and consoles in 2027. The game is being made by just two solo developers, David of Nostalgic Realms and Oliver Joyce of Whiskybarrel Studios, who joined forces to build the game of their dreams because, in their words,
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Acclaim’s Re-Volt is back, and it’s better than ever! Join the excitement of this iconic RC racer on PS5 and Switch, and relive the fun of a bygone era. With a limited edition H2 Edition, you can enjoy the game with a stylish box and soundtrack.
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Josh Howard’s indie horror comic book Dead at 17: Revival returns to for issue #2.
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Hamster has released the 1998 business simulation game The Drug Store for PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2 as part of the digital Console Archives series.
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“A game is only late until it ships, a bad game is bad forever” – Somebody said once. In that case, Moto X is now a ripe (over-ripe?) thirty-two years past due. It’s not just old enough to drink and get killed in battle, but it’s pretty much “hit the wall” and is finally ready to settle down… That’s enough
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Welcome back to the Festival of Dread, The Splintering‘s month-long celebration of all things gory and gruesome! For those of you looking for a classic horror novel to celebrate the Festival of Dread, look no further than the newest edition of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein featuring reproductions of Bernie Wrightson’s classic illustrations. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley was original published in
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Thirty-four years after it first shambled onto NEC’s PC-98, FairyTale’s zombie horror adventure game Dead of the Brain is getting a second life on Steam PC thanks to Fakku.
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There is a special kind of terror that only comes from a job where nothing happens for hours and hours on end, then, suddenly, something does. VCR83, a newly announced psychological surveillance horror game from Galactic Crows (Psychopathy Assessment) and developer Tarba Paul Cornel, wants you to clock in for exactly that kind of a shift, but in a fun
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If you are a DC Comics fan, you have to have been living under a rock for the past couple of weeks few decades to not hear about the ultimate fate of Hal Jordan, the greatest of all the Green Lanterns. For the rest of us, even years later, it hit like a shot to the face. A gunshot. Like
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*snap* *snap* Hey! That’s fun! *snap* *snap* Did anybody else snap to the theme of the old TV show? *snap* *snap* *snap* *snap* *snap* *snap* *snap* *snap* *snap* *snap* *snap* *snap* Ahhhh! That was satisfying! So, starting up The Addams Family for Super Nintendo (SNES) for the umpteenth time seeing as how there is a new movie for my favorite,
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Welcome back to 80s August, The Splintering’s month-long celebration of all things 80s… except for you, 1983. You know what you did…. Before enjoying the breakout success of the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series, Archie Comics attempted to embrace another fledgling video game franchise in The Adventures of Bayou Billy, written by Rich (RPM) Margopoulos (Vampirella) and penciled by Amanda Conner (yes,
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Welcome back to 80s August, The Splintering’s month-long celebration of the greatest decade since orange met chicken. Today we’re going to do a full detail on Knight Rider, the 1988 Nintendo (NES) game developed by Pack-In-Video Co. and published by Acclaim. And at the mention of the name “Acclaim”, I know that there are eyes rolling and stomachs churning. Does
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Welcome back to 80s August, The Splintering’s month-long celebration of the greatest decade since the yellow polka-dot bikini! The Star Wars-style crawl gives us, the viewer, some quick exposition on what we are to expect, after it ends we watch an absurdly long ship slowly pass before our eyes, then the plot gets underway, where we have a hammy pseudo
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Welcome back to 80s August, The Splintering’s month-long celebration of the greatest decade since the baking of the first blackberry cobbler! Today, we’re reviewing the first five-issue story arc of Eclipse Comics’ Airboy, which was a revival of the original Golden Age Airboy series published by Hillman Comics in the 40s and 50s. The first Eclipse Comics issue landed in
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Welcome back to Attack Helicopter Week here at The Splintering. Before we start with the review, let’s play a little game… One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn’t belong. Space Harrier – After Burner – Hang On – Out Run – Thunder Blade Can you tell which thing is not like the
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Welcome to yet another review celebrating Attack Helicopter Week here at The Splintering! Today we’re picking apart another retro arcade game port, this time it’s Steel Talons for the SEGA Genesis. Before we get going, however, I have to note that this game is ROUGH. I couldn’t play it through in a normal state, so the only solution was to
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Welcome to Attack Helicopter Week here at The Splintering! How about kicking things off with a lesser-known, retro import? Grab your yoke and pop in your earplugs, because today we’re picking apart Choplifter! for the Nintendo Famicom. Choplifter! is a unique title as it started as an Apple II game and was later ported to the arcades. The Famicom version
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Welcome back to Monochrome May, The Splintering’s month-long celebration of everything blanc and noir… kind of. While not his very first feature film, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1927 thriller The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog marks the renowned director’s first foray into suspense, and it also sets the scene for the themes and trademark visual flourishes that would become defining elements of his life’s work.
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Welcome back to The Splintering’s Monochrome May event! Today we’re introducing what may become a new feature: Greatest Levels in Gaming, starting with one of the Nintendo Entertainment System’s last, but most cherished games. Before we kick this off, if you have any concerns about spoiling a 30-year old game, then you might want to avoid this retrospective. Then again,
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Welcome to a special Monochrome May edition of Under the Radar, a segment where we spotlight comic books that don’t have the widespread attention of the comic book community that they should. Today, we’ll be looking at the black and white comic book Dark Horse Presents #1, which not only launched the flagship anthology series from Dark Horse Comics, but
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Welcome back to Monochrome May, The Splintering’s month-long celebration of black and white entertainment! Given the recent release of the latest Mortal Kombat feature film, we thought we’d take this opportunity to look at another abysmal MK abortion in the form of Mortal Kombat for the Nintendo Game Boy! Released by Acclaim on September 13, 1993 (aka “Mortal Monday“), the
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Welcome back to Jolly Jinglings, The Splintering’s month-long celebration of all things festive and frosty! The original Home Alone film hit theaters during the holiday season of 1990, making this year the anniversary of its release. We’ve already marked the occasion by reviewing the Home Alone video game for the original NES, but why not see how the Super Nintendo version stacks up? The
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Welcome back to Jolly Jinglings, The Splintering’s month-long celebration of all things merry and bright! The original Home Alone film was released during the holiday season of 1990, making this year an anniversary of sorts. So what better time to take a look at one of the video games inspired by the classic feature film? For those too young to
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Welcome back to the Festival of Dread, The Splintering‘s month-long celebration of all things kooky, spooky, and altogether ooky. It’s been a while since we’ve done one of our “Cheeky Gaming Ads” galleries, and while Halloween doesn’t quite lend itself to the same level of “cheeky-ness”, we thought it would be fun to gaze at a few horror-themed arcade game
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There was a time not too long ago when the future of baseball in Taiwan was in doubt. The sport was rife with game-fixing scandals, and public trust—both with the in-person crowds and the home viewing audience—had dropped to a level where the business of the game was no longer sound. From the late 1990s through the early 2010s, the
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The ’50s were a drought for the established character actor Peter Lorre, but perhaps things seemed brighter at the start of the decade with his directorial debut, a postwar German thriller, Der Verlorene, or The Lost One, sometimes translated as The Lost Man. Released in 1951, Der Verlorene tells the story of one Dr. Karl Neumeister (Peter Lorre), working at
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