American Racing 2 Review
The American Racing 2 game looks and plays like a mixture of popular classic racing games such as Outrun and Super Cars. It is a fun arcade racer that offers lots of […]
Check all regional prices on Steam
The popular game distribution platform Steam, much like Amazon, eBay and many other platforms, uses a regional store system that limits access to stores to users from supported regions. German, French or […]
Betty IX: old school arcade shooter [Game Saturday]
I like to play shoot'em up games, especially those that let me upgrade my ship in a way or two. This week's Game Saturday game Betty IX is one of those games. […]
The King's League Odyssey game review
The King's League Odyssey is a strategy game of sorts in which you have to work yourself up from league to league to fight against the king's team in the end. The […]
Steam's Trading Card Game: find out what is it all about
Valve is currently running a beta of Steam Trading Cards on Steam that anyone who is invited to can participate in. It basically goes like this: you earn trading cards by playing […]
Google introduces Atari Breakout Easter egg
Over the years Google has become famous for its Doodles and its Easter eggs. For instance, in 2011 the search giant added the barrel roll trick, which still works to this day […]
You can now play Civilization in your web browser
The first time I played the computer game Civilization was back on the Commodore Amiga. It was an epic game back then and that did not really change throughout the years. While […]
Giants and Dwarves TD is a Tower Defense game with a twist
The Tower Defense (TD) genre has evolved a lot in recent years. Before that, two different types of games were available: first games in which you had to place towers to build […]
How to configure, move and block Steam notifications
Steam displays notifications by default in the lower right corner of the screen. While that is usually not a problem if you are not in-game, it can be problematic if you are […]
Xbox 720 always-on rumor appears untrue
I'm paying close attention to the upcoming consoles of Microsoft and Sony, not only because I enjoy playing a game or two every now and then, but also because console launches are […]
Play Epic Games Citadel Demo in your web browser
I have to admit that I'm not a fan of Epic Games anymore ever since they decided to make shiny great looking games that are not the best gameplay-wise. I was a […]
Why is Steam displaying a game content conversion dialog?
If you are using Steam and have Team Fortress 2, CounterStrike Source, Half-Life 2 Deathmatch or Day of Defeat Source installed, you may have noticed a "Game content conversion" prompt when you […]
Magnetized review [Game Saturday]
Magnetized is a free Flash-based puzzle game that uses simple game mechanics to provide you with a wonderful and challenging experience. Your task in the game is simple: direct a floating something […]
Steam client Beta update brings long-awaited download speed limiter
If you are running Steam on one of your systems and have ever bought a game that was downloaded from Steam servers, you know that you can't really manipulate the download speed. […]
Depressurizer brings order to large Steam game collections
I have more than 200 games in my Steam library and would consider it of medium size. I know quite a few users with hundreds more, some even breaking the thousand game […]
Tag Steam friends to group them into play groups
The Steam friends list tells you which friends are currently online on Steam, if they are playing a game, and if they are not online, when they have been online the last […]
What's the Steam Rating all about?
If you have looked at the Steam profile of one of your friends, another gamer or even yourself, you may have noticed the entry Steam Rating in the right sidebar there. The […]
Cursed Treasure 2 Tower Defense review [Game Saturday]
I like to play tower defense games and Cursed Treasure 2 is one of those games that keeps me entertained for a long while even though it is not the longest of […]
An always on Xbox 360 won't find its way in to my home
I have been following the development in regards to the next generation of gaming systems, and more precisely the announcements and rumors surrounding Sony's Playstation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox 720. I own […]
A new time waster - Angry Birds Friends heads for mobile devices
If you are on Facebook, and I can confidently say that most of you likely are, then you know the social network is also a haven for games. For the most part, those games […]
Siege Knight [Game Saturday]
I reviewed many arcade shoot em up games in the last weeks here in this series and decided to mix the series up a little bit. This time I'm going to review […]
Trigonometry Wars 3 Redux: Bullet Hell deluxe [Game Saturday]
If you are following the Game Saturday series regularly you know that I love to play shoot em up games. I do not really know where this obsession comes from, maybe from […]
Steam adding Early Access Games to its store
Many gamers like to play games as early as possible. For many, it does not really matter if the game is not finished yet, beta or even alpha access to a game […]
Pioneers, a game of exploration [Game Saturday]
When you are thinking about pioneers in games, you are probably getting warm and fuzzy when Colonization comes to your mind. Pioneers is not like that even though it makes a couple […]
Steampunk Tower [Game Saturday]
Steampunk Tower is a special kind of tower defense game. You are tasked with the protection of a tower that is under constant attack by enemy forces. You have four different types […]
Bombermine: 1000 player Bomberman fun [Game Saturday]
I can't really remember when I first came into contact with Bomberman, but I think it was on the Commodore Amiga when I started to play a game called Dynablast. The game […]
Karate Master [Game Saturday]
The last time I played a Karate game was probably on the Amiga if you consider Budokan that. If you do not, it was International Karate+ on the C-64. Karate Master is […]
Playstation 4's Gaikai game streaming service gives Sony an edge
Sony revealed information about the upcoming Playstation 4 console two days ago, and while the company did not answer all of our questions, it did answer a couple of interesting ones. We […]
Sony announces Playstation 4 (PS4) but does not show it
While Nintendo managed to get a head start by releasing the Wii U gaming system in 2012, both Sony and Microsoft are expected to release their next generation consoles this year. Rumors […]
TripleA Axis and Allies [Game Saturday]
TripleA is an open source Axis and Allies boardgame remake for the PC. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux systems and requires Java to run. If you never came into […]
Valve adds offline messaging support to Steam
One of the things that bothered me in regards to Valve's Steam software was that you were only able to send messages to online friends and not to those who were offline […]
Prototype II Shoot em up [Game Saturday]
To avoid confusion right from the beginning: This is not a review of the mainstream title Prototype 2 that got released some time ago, it is a review of the shoot em […]
OUYA video game console available for preorder on Amazon
The video game console OUYA made a splash on Kickstarter last year when it managed to exceed its funding goal of $950,000 by almost 1000%. A funding of nearly a million is […]
Vatn Squid, a bullet hell game [Game Saturday]
I'm attracted to so called bullet hell games even though I'm not particularly good at them. In these shoot em up games, it is not enough to beat enemy ships or objects […]
Deepfall Dungeon [Game Saturday]
The first dungeon crawler I played was Dungeon Master on the Commodore Amiga. I loved the game and enjoyed games such as Eye of The Beholder or the recently released Legends of […]
Free disk space by cleaning the Steam folder
If you have Steam installed chance is that you have at least one, more often than not a couple of games installed on your system as well. These games may take up […]
Maldita Castilla [Game Saturday]
Remember Ghosts'n Goblins? It was a highly popular platform game in the 80s released for video arcades and later on home platforms like the C-64, Amiga or Nintendo Entertainment System. The player […]
Watch and manage Dota2 Live Streams
Dota2 is a remake of the classic Defense of the Ancient Warcraft 3 mod which is currently available as a beta version on Steam. The beta is not free at the time […]
Verminest retro arcade shooter [Game Saturday]
As a kid, I spend many coins on arcade games like Decathlon, Galaga, Centipede and Xevious 2. These games may look simplistic today when you compare them to games produced in the […]
Get Steam price drop notifications with Steam Alerts
Valve is having regular sales on Steam where new and old games are offered for a discount. The sales are a great way of buying games that you are interested in but […]
