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Oni: The Lost Cyberpunk Child of Bungie and Rockstar

August 14, 2020 by Red Stewart

CryMor Gaming presents a look into the troubled history of a little game called Oni… Creating a memorable cyberpunk title is a hard-sell for indie developers, but you would think major companies like Bungie and Rockstar would have no problem with it right? Well, they actually took a swing at this concept back in 2001. […]

Command & Conquer Has a Free Fan-Made “Sequel” That You Should Check Out

October 1, 2020 by Red Stewart

CryMor Gaming presents the forgotten follow-up to Command & Conquer and its free fan-made remake… The real-time strategy or RTS genre blew up after the release of Command & Conquer in 1995. Here was a video game that you could not blitz your way through ala a puzzle platformer or bullet hell shooter. Instead, you had […]

A Video History of Fighting Games

October 4, 2020 by Red Stewart

CryMor Gaming presents a history of fighting games… When it comes to the fighting genre, everyone has a favorite franchise. Acolytes of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) will no doubt flock to the Street Fighter series, particularly #2; arcade cabinet fans, on the other hand, grew up with Mortal Kombat, and you would be hard-pressed to […]

Star Wars: Dark Forces – The Forgotten Star Wars Masterpiece

January 6, 2021 by Red Stewart

Crymor Gaming presents a look at Star Wars: Dark Forces…. When the original Star Wars hit a stride and took off back in the late 70s, George Lucas knew he had something amazing that could be expanded into every avenue of pop culture. Not only was it popular amongst large groups of people, but it […]

Gangsters: The Mafia Game That Should Be Remastered

January 13, 2021 by Red Stewart

CryMor Gaming on Gangsters: Organized Crime… Ever since The Godfather came out, mafias and mafiosos have been embedded in western pop culture. The idea of a violent crime organization governed by structure and family is a dark polymorphization of American ideals with American reality, making it all the more appealing. So many video games have tried to […]

Personhood in Video Games? The Philosophy of NPCs

January 14, 2021 by Red Stewart

CryMor Gaming presents a look at NPCs… Non-player characters, or NPCs, have been a staple of video games since arguably Computer Space, the very first video game ever created. You simply cannot have a world without some form of externally-controlled entities- it would make everything feel empty, isolated, and (from a design standpoint) downright lazy. […]

Startopia: A Kooky Simulator of the Industrial Cosmos

January 21, 2021 by Red Stewart

MRIXRT presents a look at Startopia… During the 1990s, a genre of video games called simulation titles came to be beloved by the masses. They featured an interesting concept- whereas a conventional video game would be escapism, simulation titles would be based on realistic prospects like running a business. The SimCity franchise is the most […]

Games Where You Have to Destroy the Game? Yup, They Exist | CryMor Gaming

October 8, 2020 by Red Stewart

CryMor Gaming presents games that have self-destructive goals… Video games have been around for so long that it can be hard to come up with an original idea. The problem is not that everything has been done, it’s that everything has been done in a way that mutually befits a gaming goal. You can’t have […]

Shang Tsung featured in new Mortal Kombat image as director calls reboot “unapologetically brutal”

March 6, 2021 by EJ Moreno

After the record-breaking trailer premiere, Mortal Kombat fans were left wanting more of the characters teased in the upcoming movie reboot – specifically Chin Han’s Shang Tsung, the film’s main villain. Now, thanks to Total Film, we have our first full look at the sorcerer and Outworld’s Emperor with an image which also looks to […]