MCSX - Minecraft: PS1 Edition answers a question absolutely none of us asked, but I am thrilled to hear the answer to: what if Minecraft was released for the original PlayStation? Also, what if it was…

Since I have so many hours logged on Minecraft modpacks and since I’ve spent so much time playing them, I figured reviews would be a good fit for the blog. I’m starting with one of the modpacks I…

Despite the joy it brings me, the modded Minecraft scene is not what I would describe as a friendly place overall. In fact, ever since the very beginning, the average modded player has had a stick…

I’ve really fallen in love with modded Minecraft over the years. Minecraft is easily my favorite game of all time (in case you haven’t heard), but I personally feel like the game itself has run its…

Depression, as you may know, is a weighted blanket with evil intentions. It’s the nap on the couch that you swear will only take half an hour, and then when you wake up the sun has already set. Over…

In between playing on Oldbat with my girlfriend and grappling with difficult personal emotions, I had set aside some time to play around in singleplayer. This may have been the first warning sign that…

With New Haven thoroughly explored, it’s about time we start actually getting into the meat of Furcadia: the hubs where users could upload their own player-made maps. Acropolis, sadly, is not a great…

After a month or so of playing World3, I was ready to try out multiplayer with my girlfriend for the first time. This is the nameless Minecraft server I would later retroactively name “Oldbat”, most…

Bringing myself to write this article has required a lot of strength and vulnerability on my part. This is because New Haven, to this day, is my favorite map in Furcadia, and perhaps any virtual world…

As of June 24, 2024, the YouTube unfiction horror series Valle Verde has uploaded its third chapter. One of my friends took to discuss it in my Discord server, where they bemoaned that while the…

For how little I’ve posted about it, Minecraft is quite possibly my favorite game of all time. I’ve been playing sandbox virtual world games ever since I was old enough to have creative thoughts, with…

There is a Minecraft story as old as time, and it’s the Enchanted Sacred Rubber Tree Sapling. Supposedly, this is a tree with the power to melt technology and destroy worlds… I have only heard these…

I went a few days without playing, since I kinda lost steam for this whole Hunt thing. I definitely didn’t plan on finishing, and I actually played more games than I expected to. Today (and tomorrow…

I’ve been a fan of the Sonic the Hedgehog series for longer than I can remember. As far as I’m concerned, I might as well have been born clutching a copy of Sonic’s Schoolhouse. That puts my…

A couple days ago, my wife became enraptured by the existence of “gamblecore”, an aesthetic (perhaps a joke one? I’m too old, I can’t tell anymore) that seems to be trying to recreate the feeling of…

I had initially passed up Cavern of Dreams the first time it went on sale – I just couldn’t make up my mind on if I wanted it or not. I mean, it looked good, but it also looked cute, and I…

So, that last one was so bad that I actually had to take a few days off of The Hunt out of exhaustion. I didn’t feel like actually picking a game to play to get back into it, so I just chose the first…

It snowed so hard that I couldn’t make it to work today, so that means more time for horrible Roblox games. I entered the hub for the event and picked the first game I hadn’t tried. That game happened…

After the nightmare that was last evening of The Hunt, I figured I’d go with as safe a bet as possible.

Adopt Me! I have played several knockoffs of this simple pet-raising game, and I know I’ve…

As a new Furcadia player circa 2001-ish, Sippy’s journey would begin thusly:

Wow. That’s a bleak way to introduce your virtual world, isn’t it? I mean, what does this imply? The descent downward is…

I took a day off of The Hunt, but am back into it full force this evening, starting with a game I thought would be a pretty simple generic hangout game.

Club Roblox The first thing it had me do upon…

Another day of The Hunt has passed. I had dreams about the Tsunami Game last night. After my daily required running around as a creature in Sonaria to restore my sanity after work, I resumed my quest…

So, Roblox did something this year called The Hunt. I haven’t been a Roblox player for nearly long enough to be aware of the history and relevance of the “egg hunt” event phenomenon, but I’m aware…

Welcome to the first installment of Dreamhopper! This is a series of retrospective articles touring Furcadia, the decrepit furry chatroom from the 90s. I’ll be showing you its rich and zombified…

We. Love. Chex Quest. It’s one of the best games of all time. It’s certainly the best Doom game of all time. AND it came with a free box of cereal - you can’t beat that for a bargain! In the classic…

If you were a kid in the 90s playing CD-ROM games, you probably played at least one Disney Interactive game. For kids learning how to use the computer, Disney games were the best of the best, the…

I’ve been kind of obsessed with this little RPG zine called Vaults of Vaarn, if my review of it didn’t tip you off. If you’re not going to click that link, it’s a really great little science-fantasy…

There’s something about the 101 Dalmatians franchise that enraptured me as a child against all odds. Be outraged if you must, but truth be told, I’m not even sure if I had watched the original movie…

Tomba! is a rare case of a ‘cult favorite’ game that I sincerely feel like had no good reason to not be popular. It was produced and directed by Tokuro Fujiwara, already known for producing and…

In case you aren’t keyed into the broader tabletop RPG universe, there’s something of an Old-School Revival or Renaissance (henceforth OSR) going on. Many RPG gamers are looking towards the past, to…

Quick rundown if you have no idea what’s going on here: VRChat is a MMO social game where users can create and upload their own avatars and worlds that can be viewed in 3D space. It’s basically a lot…

The Elder Scrolls is probably one of the deepest and most involved video games in history when it comes to terms of scope. With five games in the main series, a bevvy of side-games, and a full-fledged…

When a person thinks of Mario Kart, it’s very likely the first course they think of is Rainbow Road. Every Mario Kart game has come with Rainbow Road, the most difficult track at the very end of the…

Hylics 2 is a JRPG-style game made by Mason Lindroth and released on June 22, 2020. Hylics 2 was probably our most-anticipated game in many, many years. The first Hylics is one of our top games of all…

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a gay game. We’re not going to beat around the bush with that! It’s gay. If you play it, you’re gay. We’re not accepting arguments. Gay people love this game. Gay…

Fallout: New Vegas is the greatest video game ever made. We’re not willing to entertain arguments on that. Yes, the original two Fallout games were very good, very good indeed, but New Vegas has…

We hope you’re all still having a great Pride Month! For us, however, it’s been a challenge. With the smash success of our Does Team Fortress 2 Is Gay article, we’ve been hounded with countless,…

Happy Pride Month, everybody! In the interest of celebrating LGBT pride, we here at EggwareXYZ want to what we feel we do best: making things gay for completely arbitrary reasons. We’d like to begin…

Ello Yewchewb and welcome back to my Minecraft build series! Quite recently (as of the time of me writing this) Mojang has released their snapshot preview builds for the upcoming 1.16 Nether Update,…

Hello! I’m Will – you might know me from this very website – and this is my new ongoing project where I try to build stuff in Minecraft featuring the latest blocks. Quite recently (as of the time of…

Time and time again, we are confronted with the crushing question: Which members of the Super Smash Bros. Melee cast are gay? It is an all-encompassing thought. At virtually all times we are pondering…

Possibly the biggest news in video game archiving history so far has been broken: A complete copy of the Pokemon Gold and Silver demo from Spaceworld 1997 has been leaked! This development version is…

Hey, Spyro Heads! We’ve seen the trailers for the Spyro™ Reignited Trilogy and we couldn’t be more excited about it! Spyro the Dragon was one of the definitive games for the original PlayStation, and…

Sex sells! It’s a fact of life, and one easily confirmed just by turning on a TV. Of course, not every sexual situation makes sense when it’s being used to sell. Like if you’re selling pickles, or…

Yoshi Juice is Will’s personal column about lists of things that you would have never thought were important enough to merit being placed in a list. Today’s article is about cacti in video…

The Travels of the Dung Beetle is a dung beetle simulator made in Unity by Louie Zong. It was made for the “My First Game Jam!”, a game jam dedicated to people making their very first video game. In…

Job Lozenge is a lo-fi employment simulator released on December 8, 2014 by Taylor Bai-Woo. Congratulation! You have been hired for the position of CRATE DISPLACER. Due to the large influx of CRATES…

Cuttle Scuttle is a cuttlefish reproduction simulator by Dan Monceaux, Adam Jenkins, and Julian Shank, released on December 4, 2015. It is a companion piece to the documentary Cuttlefish Country, a…

Joy Exhibition is an alien art exhibition simulator made in Unity and released on December 16, 2015 by Strangethink. Trapped in a mysterious alien ship, you must communicate with the voiceless species…

Hylics is a JRPG-style game made by Mason Lindroth and released on August 29, 2015. The concept of “hylics” is taken from Greek gnosticism, where it was the basest portion of what made up a living…

Frail Shells is a first-person shooter made by Taylor Bai-Woo with music by Ryan Roth. It was released November 15, 2014 as part of the 7DFPS Jam, a collaborative game design event dedicated to making…

Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist is a short whirlwind heist simulator made in Unity and released December 4, 2015 by Crows Crows Crows. In it you play a…

Expat is a game released on June 2, 2014 by Blendo Games for the Space Cowboy Game Jam, a collaborative game design event inspired by Cowboy Bebop with the theme of combining both the American and…

If you haven’t played Psychonauts, the magnum opus of Tim Schafer’s Double Fine Studios, please stop reading this article. Instead, go purchase a copy of the game, begin playing it, and do not come…

Animal Inspector is an animal inspection simulator released on November 18, 2015 by Tom Astle. In a world where there are simply too many animals clogging everything up, the Animal Inspection Agency…

I am dead where are my keys is a driving-adventure game released on October 31, 2015. With programming by Taylor Bai-Woo, graphics by Ben Swinden, and music by Halina Heron, it’s pretty…

Oases is a game released on November 11, 2015. Described as a “kaleidoscopic elegiac flyscape”, it was created by Armel Gibson and dziff, members of the Klondike Collective. You might remember the…

This is the start of our Half Hour Games column, a series where we experience free games within the span of half an hour and then tell you about them. Call it “judging a book by its cover” because…

We blogged about the Nintendo Play Station back in July when it was first discovered, and now a new development has occurred in its mysterious appearance. Courtesy of Engadget: the console is…

Twilight Sparkle’s Secret Shipfic Folder was a fan-made My Little Pony card game, released in Summer of 2014. It is also, for all intents and purposes, not the kind of thing that we would normally…

Super Mario 64 did more than just bring Mario to the third dimension: it literally defined a new genre and revolutionized video gaming for the rest of eternity. It’s impossible to overstate just how…

Tomba! is a 1997 side-scrolling platformer released for the Sony Playstation by Whoopee Camp. Designed by Tokuro Fujiwara, creator of the Ghosts 'n Goblins series, Tomba is an interesting…

Banjo-Kazooie is a 1998 3D platformer game for the Nintendo 64 by Rareware, and is considered by many to be one of the best games for the N64 altogether. It involves a bear (Banjo) and his best…

Ecco the Dolphin is an action-adventure game developed by Novotrade International and published by Sega in 1992. Starring the titular Ecco, a bottlenosed dolphin with a strange constellation-shaped…

Donkey Kong Country was released in 1994 for the Super Nintendo. It was developed by Rare, and was the first entry to make Donkey Kong his own standalone hero instead of a Mario villain. It was…

Some fears are more primal than others. All things spooky tap into the darker parts of our mind, where our basic survival instincts lie, and exploit them to simulate experiencing a level of fear that…

Welcome to Halloween! Or as most people like to call it, October! This Halloween, we want to talk about some of the stuff that scared us the worst when we were kids. It’s time to take a retrospective…

Alone, on the surface of Mars, the only thing that you have to keep you company is the sound of your car’s engine. You don’t know how long it’s been since you’ve seen another person, but you are…

Hey kids! Do you like Taco Bell? Do you like Duke Nukem 3D? Of course you do? Well, what if I told you there was a way you could enjoy Taco Bell and Duke Nukem 3D at the same time - Wait, didn’t we…

Just last night (July 2, 2015), a practical unicorn has been discovered in the world of retrogaming. Nintendo’s Play Station, once thought to be long lost in the famous squabble between Sony and…

Hey, kids! Do you like Chex Cereal? Do you like DOOM? Of course you do! Well, what if I told you there was a way you could enjoy Chex and DOOM at the same time? No, no I’m serious - wait - no, don’t…

The city of Compli City is under attack! Not by giant monsters, or terrorists, or anything so simple as that, but one of the greatest threats known to man - Boredom! Our only hope? The…

Why the hell did they decide to make Sonic the Hedgehog the star of an educational game for children? Who allowed this to happen? We want names. Who, somewhere in the leadership of Sega, let this…

This is the first article in our new series, Retrospectacles, where we look back at beloved pop cultural sensations and break them down for the utterly ridiculous[1] things about them. From Sonic to…