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Dead Rising 2 And The Lack of Rebindable Controls
This is it, this is Dead Rising 2’s complete ‘Controls’ menu. Complete and unedited, which you can totally tell, because I would not let an edited version keep Uncanny Katie around. Looking at the...
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Din’s Legacy (PC)
No Man’s Sky has recently released yet another disappointing update that adds a fresh coat of paint to its lifeless Potemkin Village of a galaxy, but fails to deliver the living world promised by the...
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The Caltrops Top 50 Games of 2010-2019 Part One: Honorable Mentions
It’s time for the Caltrops list of the best games of the decade. How was this list made? By discussion on the Caltrops forum over the last ten years, voting e-mails written to the admin, outright...
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The Caltrops Top 50 Games of 2010-2019: #50-40
Welcome to the Caltrops list of the 50 best games of the decade, which was from 2010 to 2019. Here is a link to the previous article, which had some honorable mentions. And if you’d like to discuss the...
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The Caltrops Top 50 Games of 2010-2019: #39-30
We’re counting down the 50 best games of the decade, as tallied by the readers and posters of the Caltrops forum over the last ten years. Honorable Mentions: Part One Entries #50 – 40 #39 – THAUMISTRY:...
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The Caltrops Top 50 Games of 2010-2019: #29-21
We’re counting down the 50 greatest games of the decade, 2010-2019. Previous entries: Honorable Mentions: Part One Entries #50 – 40 Entries #39 – 30 Below are #29 through #21. #29 – POKEMON GO by...
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The Caltrops Top 50 Games of 2010-2019: #20-11
We’re counting down the 50 best games of the decade. Previous entries: Honorable Mentions: Part One Entries #50 – 40 Entries #39 – 30 Entries #29 – 21 And now … 20 through 11! #20 – YAKUZA 0 by Sega...
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The Caltrops Top 50 games of 2010-2019: #10-1
Welcome! It was a long time going, but these are the ten best games of the decade, as decided by the Caltrops forum. Here are links to the other entries in this web series: Honorable Mentions: Part One...
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Mischief Maker’s Top 10 Quarantine Games List!
Going stir crazy from being stuck inside all the time? Want to eat the lotus of videogames, but want only the finest curated lotus? Here’s 10 excellent games you may not have heard of, in no particular...
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Recent Cyberpunk Games for the PC
#1 is still Satellite Reign. A modern re-imagining of Syndicate that nails the rain-soaked Blade Runner vibe. My one complaint about the game is all the action takes place in corporate parking lots,...
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Mischief Maker’s Chill Game List
Like the title says. Games to help you chill out, maaaaan. Trine 2: The Complete Story To this day one of the most beautiful games ever created, and yes that is also in comparison to Trine 3 and 4....
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A Look at the Commodore 64 Mini
If the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist, the greatest trick marketing executives ever pulled was convincing consumers to purchase the same things over and...
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Mischief Maker’s Top 10 Unique Games
One of the biggest joys of indie gaming is the creative freedom bedroom programmers have to try crazy new ideas or genre-blends that no AAA developer would dare gamble their multi-million-dollar...
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The Making of Karateka (Journals 1982-1985) by Jordan Mechner
Reading a non-fiction book and knowing things about the author that haven’t happened yet is an interesting experience. The Making of Karateka is a collection of hand-written journals captured by...
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The Making of Prince of Persia (Journals 1985-1993) by Jordan Mechner
The second (of two) books Jordan Mechner self-published is another set of his own hand-written journals, this time covering the development of Prince of Persia and its sequel, Prince of Persia 2. The...
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Mischief Maker’s Top 10 Games of 2020
Mischief Maker’s Top 10 games of the year 2020. 10. Jet Lancer A wildly fast modern arcade game that plays like the souped-up lovechild of Time Pilot and Lunar Lander. With fast WASD and mouseaim...
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Infinite Space III: Sea of Stars (PC)
Infinite Space III: Sea of Stars I’ll admit my bias right off the bat, the original Strange Adventures in Infinite Space was the title that started my love of indie gaming. A Star Trek inspired coffee...
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Galactic Civilizations III: Crusade Expansion Notes!
The official wiki hasn’t updated, unless there’s a special Crusade wiki somewhere, so let me help you with the almost entirely new rules (as compared to the game in 2016). The teaser trailer for the...
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Psychonauts 2 (PC)
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE FIRST GAME AND THE SEQUEL Controls in 2 are much MUCH better and more refined, which is to be expected. In 1 I’m constantly fighting the camera (pro-tip: if you decide to...
View ArticleHalloween (Movie, 2018)
Halloween is one of the most convoluted movie series of all time. As of the release of Halloween (2018), there are now five separate timelines in the franchise. There’s the original, which consists of...
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