Four Years Later: Why Midnight Suns Remains Marvel’s Most Unique Game - Shadow Gaming When we first heard that Firaxis Games, the absolute legends behind XCOM, were making a Marvel game, most of us expected XCOM with a superhero skin. We imagined Iron Man…

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Why I let a Lich (A.I.) write my Game of Thrones Fan-Fiction Part I - Shadow Gaming Most editors hire freelancers. I hired a digital Demi-Lich. Today, we’re dropping the Bhaalspawn of Baldur’s Gate 2 and Christof Romuald of Vampire: The Masquerade – Redemption into the Red…

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The Game That Made Us Love Getting Murdered by Orcs: Middle-earth - Shadow of Mordor - Shadow Gaming Release Date: September 30, 2014 Developer: Monolith Productions Get It On: GOG A Surprise Hit from the Black Gate Back in 2014, the gaming landscape was in a bit of…

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Building an Orc Empire: Shadow of War Still Rules Mordor - Shadow Gaming Release Date: October 10, 2017 Developer: Monolith Productions Get It On: GOG Welcome Back to the Chaos of Mordor Look, I know what you’re thinking. It’s 2026, and there are…

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Warhammer Classics Brings a Ton of Older Warhammer Games Back to Steam - Shadow Gaming Fans of classic Warhammer games just got a content bomb dropped on them, as Games Workshop and SNEG released and re-released a literal ton of beloved classics on Steam. Classic…

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Welcome to the Mine: Cralon Launches Today on PC and Consoles - Shadow Gaming It is finally time to dive into the darkness. The wait is officially over because Pithead Studio‘s debut title, Cralon, has just been released today, April 17, 2026. This isn’t…

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Metro 2039 Officially Announced For Later This Year - Shadow Gaming Metro fans and everybody else looking for a post-apocalyptic shooter in the veins of Fallout or S.T.A.L.K.E.R. can now officially loose their minds as Metro 2039 has officially been announced…

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Baldur's Gate 3 to receive massive new Act 2 mod, very soon. - Shadow Gaming Modder SquallyDaBeanz recently released a new trailer for the ambitions, in-development mod for Act 2 of Baldur’s Gate 3. Baldur’s Gate 3: Act Two Expansion adds a good chunk of…

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Gothic 1 Remake Pre-Order Trailer Released - Shadow Gaming The Gothic 1 Remake just received a pretty cool trailer, celebrating the fact that you can now pre-order the game. THQ Nordic and Alkimia Interactive have set the release date…

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Shadows and Shinobi: A Beautiful Grind Through Feudal Japan - Shadow Gaming So, we finally got it. The setting every single Assassin’s Creed fan has been screaming for since the days of Altair: Feudal Japan. Assassin’s Creed: Shadows arrived with a massive…

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The Beautiful, Broken Masterpiece: Revisiting The Temple of Elemental Evil - Shadow Gaming Release Date: September 16, 2003 Developer: Troika Games Get It On: GOG The Most Authentic Tactical Combat If you’ve ever sat around a table with a bag of Cheetos and…

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Heralds of the Third Apocalypse Incoming: Iron Tower Studios Drops Design Update - Shadow Gaming If you’re a fan of the brutal, choice-heavy worlds created by Iron Tower Studio, you might want to sit down for this. The team behind The Age of Decadence and…

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Alkahest: Why Immersive Sim Fans are Losing Their Minds Over This Indie RPG - Shadow Gaming If you have been keeping an eye on the indie RPG scene lately, you might have noticed a specific name popping up that has fans of the old-school immersive sim…

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A Gem in the Rough: Why Torchlight Still Shines - Shadow Gaming Release Date: October 27, 2009 Developer: Runic GamesGet It On: GOG The Pedigree of Greatness If you were hanging around the gaming scene back in the late 2000s, you probably…

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#torchlight #runicgames #retrogaming #review

The True Heirs of Earth: Crushing the Terran Armada in Starfield’s Best DLC - Shadow Gaming It has been a long road for Bethesda, but in April 2026, they finally seem to have hit the hyperspace button. With the simultaneous launch of the PS5 version and…

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#starfield #terranarmada #review #newbabylon

Bethesda Drops Two Brand New Starfield Trailers - Shadow Gaming Coming in hot on the heels of the recently announced second expansion to Starfield, Terran Armada, Bethesda just dropped two story trailer for the game. One is called “The Settled…

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Revving Engines in a World of Rust and Magic - Shadow Gaming So, you’ve probably played your fair share of post-apocalyptic games where everything is brown, everyone is grumpy, and you’re mostly just walking through ruins looking for a tin of beans.…

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#aetherandiron #seismicsquirrel #chaostheorygames #review

It Just Works: The Fallout TV-Show is Awesome and It's Here to Stay - Shadow Gaming It is honestly hard to believe we ever lived in a world where video game adaptations were considered a guaranteed recipe for disaster. For decades, fans held their breath every…

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MMO-History 101: A Look Back at Ultima Online - Shadow Gaming In 1997, a game called Ultima Online (UO) dropped us into a world that felt less like a piece of software and more like a second life. Developed by Origin…

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#ultimaonline #richardgarriott #originsystems #retrospective #retrogaming

Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era Finally Has a Date - Shadow Gaming It’s been a long, quiet decade for fans of the ultimate “just one more turn” franchise, but the wait is officially coming to an end. Ubisoft and developer Unfrozen recently…

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The Cold War Gets Way More Crowded: Xenonauts 2 drops Version 1.0 and is out of Early Access - Shadow Gaming After years of waiting in the trenches of early access, we’ve finally hit the big day. Xenonauts 2 has officially reached its 1.0 release, and it feels like a breath…

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#xenonauts2 #fullrelease #review #goldhawkinteractive

I Have the Hype: The Live-Action Masters of the Universe Trailer Just Dropped and It’s Pure 80s Fuel - Shadow Gaming If you had Jared Leto as a cackling skull-faced sorcerer on your 2026 bingo card, go ahead and collect your winnings. The official trailer for the live-action Masters of the…

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Tamriel’s New Groove: Everything We Just Learned from the ESO 2026 Seasons Direct - Shadow Gaming If you thought The Elder Scrolls Online was just going to keep coasting on the same old yearly chapter formula, ZeniMax Online Studios just collectively told us to hold their…

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The Long-Awaited Odyssey: Stellar Tactics 1.0 is the Sci-Fi Sandbox We Didn`t Know We’ve Been Craving - Shadow Gaming After nearly a decade drifting through the vacuum of Early Access, Maverick Games has finally brought Stellar Tactics to its full 1.0 release. If you’ve been following the indie scene…

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#stellartactics #review #maverickgames #donwilkins

Twenty Years of Shaking the Spires: An EverQuest II Retrospective - Shadow Gaming It is hard to believe we have been wandering through the shattered remnants of Norrath for over two decades now. When EverQuest II launched in November 2004, it was the…

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#everquestII #daybreak #retrospective #retrogaming

Definitely! If they can combine Dead Space with Alien: Isolation, it's gonna be awesome! :D

The Digital Wild West: When Norrath Ruled the World - Shadow Gaming If you were around in 1999, you probably remember a very different internet. It was a time of screeching 56k modems, AOL chat rooms, and a total lack of hand-holding…

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#everquest #sonyonlineentertainment #retrospective

Back to Norrath: EverQuest Legends is the Mid-Life Crisis Cure We Didn’t Know We Needed - Shadow Gaming If you spent your youth in the late nineties dodging sand giants in the Oasis of Marr or waiting hours for a boat that might never come, Daybreak Game Company…

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