DEVELOPER: Acclaim Studios Austin (original)/Nightdive Studios (remaster) PUBLISHER: Nightdive Studios REVIEWED ON: Nintendo Switch from a copy purchased by the author. To read out thoughts on the Nintendo 64 original, click HERE. It’s fair to say that the Nintendo 64 was kept afloat against the juggernaut that was Sony’s first PlayStation because of Nintendo’s own…
This fall has seen all but one comic book video game, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, get a delay of some sort. Hellboy: Web of Wyrd exchanged its early October release date for one 2 days before Insomniac’s sequel, and Batman: Arkham Trilogy, a game that was originally slated to launch on October 13th, will now arrive…
Since their inception, Nightdive’s name has become synonymous with high-quality remasters and remakes of classic first-person shooters. Just this year alone they launched a critically acclaimed remake of System Shock 2, and modern updates for both Rise of the Triad and Quake II. Thanks to Nightdive Studios, players who grew up with Acclaim’s Turok series…
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The writer of this article was given an advance look at FPS: First Person Shooter. First-person shooters, which not a few decades ago people referred to as “DOOM clones” after id Software’s ground breaking title spawned an ocean of imitators in the then unnamed genre , are still among the most played today.…
I can remember it like it was yesterday. While taking a trip to my local Wal-Mart, one of the first things that greeted me when I walked in the door – other than an actual greeter – was a TV with a new console hooked up to it. In it was a cartridge for the…
In a case of better late than never, Nightdive Studios’ lovingly crafted remasters of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and Turok 2: Seeds of Evil found their way to the PlayStation family of consoles this year. Previously, the duo had come to PC, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch with PlayStation being the last holdout. Like it was…
DEVELOPERS: Iguana Entertainment (originals)/Nighdive Studios (remasters) PUBLISHERS: Acclaim Entertainment (originals)/Nightdive Studios (remasters) REVIEWED ON: PlayStation 4 (slim) from copies purchased by the author. When players think of the Nintendo 64’s library, they tend to think of big, first party Nintendo titles like Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time or four-player party…
In a case of better late than never, both Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and its sequel, Turok 2: Seeds of Evil, are now both available to download on the PlayStation 4 – they’ll also work just fine on the PlayStation 5 too. During the summer of last year, trophies for both games were leaked online signaling…
Nightdive Studios have been a boon to fans of the classic Turok series of first-person shooters from Acclaim. Their stellar remasters of the first and second games in the franchise, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and Turok 2: Seeds of Evil, have given players who long for the good old days a way to experience those games on modern machines, with the…
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, the, pun intended, acclaimed first-person shooter from the N64 era was brought back from extinction thanks to the efforts of Nightdive Studios. The remaster of the 1997 classic first showed up on PC, followed by ports to the Xbox One in 2018 and the Nintendo Switch last year where it was greeted with…
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