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Silent Hill (Mobile Trilogy)

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A trilogy of pre-smartphone horror games.

Bonus Get 169: The Mini-Skirt Police

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a PS2 game created by the maker of infamous kusoge Hong Kong 97 about a fashionable policewoman who fights crime and rips clothes.

Bonus Get 168: Kingdom Hearts

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a game where Goofy and Donald Duck fight Sephiroth and that's, like, not even the 10th most ridiculous thing that happens.

Silent Hill: Book of Memories

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Silent Hill as a dungeon crawler, for some reason.

Mizuiro Blood

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The Instant Death Nonsense Romantic Comedy from Bandai-Namco.

The Bride of Retro Horror Cover Preview

We're working on things a little out of order here, as we have a cover reveal for a 2022 project: The Bride of Retro Horror, a follow-up to our Retro Horror digest from 2018, with cover art again by Rusty Shackles! You can get an idea of the games being featured here - Clock Tower and Night Trap at the forefront, plus early games based on assorted horror movie icons, but it'll also include a bunch of point-and-click horror games, as well as a bunch of interesting early 80s games across all pl...

Play Novel Silent Hill

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Silent Hill ends up being remade as a visual novel in this Japan-only GBA game.

Bonus Get 167: Disaster: Day of Crisis

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Monolith Soft's Wii game where you fight earthquakes and terrorists.

Top 47k Ep 449: Anchorhead

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank a Lovecraftian text adventure. As you may have guessed, it's about a guy in New England who is scared of fish people.

Top 47k Ep 448: Super Glove Ball

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the Rare-developed Power Glove showcase that apparently takes place inside of a Rubik's Cube

Silent Hill: Downpour

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The final proper Silent Hill game, which is somewhat more successful than Homecoming.

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

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More Silent Hill games, this one being (sort of) a remake of the first game, with flashlight controls tuned for the Nintendo Wii controller.

Silent Hill Homecoming

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For the rest of October (and even into November), we'll be finishing up our series on Silent Hill, starting with the initial PS3/X360 entry.

Top 47k Ep 447: Killer7 (feat. Trevor Strunk)

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank Suda51's most cultish of cult classics with author and No Cartridge podcast host Trevor Strunk (@Hegelbon)!

Doom 4 / Doom (2016) / Doom Eternal

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Finishing up our Doom series with a look at the cancelled attempts to get a new Doom off the gr...

Top 47k Ep 446: Xanadu Next

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank this plucky entry in Falcom's Xanadu non-series series.

Top 47k Ep 445: Don't Starve

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank this top-down crafting/survival game with a cool pop-up book aesthetic.

Bonus Get 166: Waterworld (Virtual Boy)

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank an under-ambitious game about an over-ambitious movie.

Bonus Get 165: Project Altered Beast

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the Altered Beast that could have stayed in its grave, for all anyone noticed or cared.

Doom

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Doom takes to portable platforms with this dungeon-crawling RPG, sadly still only available on Java-based phones.

Doom 3

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Doom takes a pivot to the horror genre with this dark (meaning hard-to-see) sequel.

Top 47k Ep 444: Elvira II: The Jaws of Cerberus

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank an RPG-flavored adventure game loosely based on cult "midnight movie" persona, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

Doom 64

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The folks behind the PS1 Doom ports tried their hand their own Doom game for the N64, one which went tragically underlooked at the time.

Top 47k Ep 443: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the quintessential sexy urban vampire action RPG. A game so beloved that, surely, a sequel is just around the corner!

Final Doom

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The crusty OG Doom sees another iteration in the form of another standalone level pack. 

Doom II: Hell on Earth

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The Doom sequel is pretty much more Doom, though now with more enemies and a super rad super shotgun.

Top 47k Ep 442: Haunted Castle

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the Castlevania that wasn't supposed to be a Castlevania and really doesn't deserve to be. But the music!

Cover Preview: Punch-Out!!

One of the projects we're aiming to get out before the end of the year is another Nintendo-themed digest, focusing on Metroid, Kid Icarus, and Punch-Out!! This image is from Punch-Out!!, of course, though this is actually the back cover. The front cover is still being worked on - make sure to follow artist Thor Thorvalsdon (https://twitter.com/thormeister1971) for some more of his work, including some bits of the wor...

Doom

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Starting our Halloween feature (the first of two!) early this month with a look at the seminal Doom FPS series.

Bonus Get 164: Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the first game in the Ogre Battle/Tactics Ogre series of strategy RPGs.