Undertale's spectacular soundtrack has found a new home today, in an unlikely partnership with old arcade studio Taito and their minimalist rhythm game Groove Coaster. Being that these are two games I regularly return to (although Groove Coaster mostly lives on my phone), it's a pairing I'm plenty happy with. While sadly only four tracks, they've picked some good ones for this DLC, and the…
Posts tagged “Taito”
Taito's Groove Coaster series has been a mainstay in both arcades and on mobile for yonks now. A one or two-button rhythm game with simple sprites and vector graphics paired with a broad range of Japanese electronica, often featuring Taito's quirky in-house band Zuntata. An unusual pick for a PC port, but as someone with it constantly installed on their phone I'm certainly not complaining that Degica…
So. This isn't a new game. In fact, it's basically the oldest game. There's nothing in modern games we would have without Space Invaders, including the excellent Adam Sandler films Pixels. You remember Pixels right? It made $244,000,000 in 2015, because in 2015 we were all very stupid and bad. Not me though. I have been and always will be the most not stupid person…
Feature: Pew pew
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.Brp brp brp brp.Brp-brp brp-brp.Brp-brp-brp-brp-brp-brp-brp-brp.BR-BR-BR-BR-BR-BR-BR-BR-BR-BR-BR-BR-BR-BR-BRP.
Space Invaders Extreme takes the classic shooter clubbing next month
Space Invaders Extreme might be late to the party, but it still knows how to please a crowd. Originally released for the Nintendo DS back in 2008 and eventually updated and remixed on the Xbox 360, it puts a music-synced, beat-heavy spin on the shmup genre progenitor, and it's coming to PC next month.Shmup-loving publisher Degica are following up the release of Extreme with an…