(AfroGamers.com) Gaming has always involved some way of rewarding the player, and in the genre’s earliest days, that usually meant little more than a congratulatory splash screen upon completion and perhaps our name on the high score leaderboard. Things have come a long way, and we’re now at the point ...
(AfroGamers.com) The Tekken franchise dropped in 1994. First in the arcades and shopping center entryways and months later on the original PlayStation in March 1995. My first actual encounter with Tekken was in 1996 via a Tekken 2 combo guide in a gaming magazine. Which magazine escapes me and I ...
(AfroGamers.com) The idea of releasing an unfinished game to the public used to be the height of indignity for developers and would have been ripped apart in the gaming press for being borderline scammy. But things have changed a lot, with early access releases on Steam setting a new precedent ...
(AfroGamers.com) Nobody told you where to go. Back then that felt less like design and more like getting ditched. You slid the gold cartridge into the Nintendo, watched the title screen shimmer beside that trickling waterfall, and then there you were. A tiny figure in green, dropped onto a screen ...
(AfroGamers.com) Nobody warned me what that chainsaw would do to my nervous system back in 2006. First time it caught a Locust mid-lunge, my roommate came flying out the kitchen convinced somebody was getting jumped in our living room. Just me. Hunched over a controller, sweating through a cover shooter ...
(AfroGamers.com) There is a particular joy that lands when the machine everybody counted out just will not fold. MF GHOST runs on that joy. Nothing about the show screams revolutionary, which is probably why it sneaks up on you. Kanata Rivington rolls into the MFG circuit driving a Toyota 86. ...
(AfroGamers.com) Counter-Strike 2 stands as the most-played game on Steam in 2026, regularly climbing past a million concurrent players during its daily peaks. A count like that should settle every argument about the game’s health. It doesn’t, at least not for me, and I’ve spent a while trying to work ...
(AfroGamers.com) When Palworld arrived in early 2024, it did so under a nickname that would both launch its success and quietly cage its reputation. You remember how it went down. Twitter, or whatever we call it now, lit up overnight. Screenshots of cuddly critters holding assault rifles. Somebody captioned it ...
(AfroGamers.com) Let’s get into a few classic video game series that I was never fully onboard with over the decades. This could be down to me not finishing the entire series or most of the games while others are just games I never rocked with but they have long-lived fanbases ...
(AfroGamers.com) Some video game genres exist within a specific period of time. When an indie studio comes along and announces they’re making a game inspired on a somewhat dated genre or they picked up the license, that game tends geared at players from that generation of gaming. I’m talking about ...