Hardcore Gaming 101

At first, Puppet Zoo Pilomy seems like a cute and friendly game. You control an unnamed human as he joins up with an alien named Pilomy to create your own animals, here called puppets. Taking place in a small town, you walk around and talk to the various denizens to get Love Points. Then, you

Plus Alpha stars two girls, Selia and Rumy, in round ships that kind of resemble TwinBee, but it doesn’t do much with the cute -em-up aesthetic beyond that. As the heroines attempt to liberate seven countries from the villains, you’ll encounter some things that fit the subgenre like bright flower fields, little bees and a

Despite the name, Wonder Planet is a game that has you blasting foes across ten different planets, not just one, as your cute little protagonist attempts to save the day. Data East was no stranger to trying weird things off the backs of proven successes, so with Wonder Planet, they took elements from Xevious, TwinBee,

2026 has seen an unexpected indie success, due to the fact that it’s an extremely unexpected team up. On one hand, you have Grey Alien Games, long time grinders of the solitaire genre, most known by you HG101 readers as the creators of Shadowhand. On the other, we have Night Signal Entertainment, a newcomer created

Over a decade after Konami’s acquisition of Hudson Soft, the Super Bomberman Collection marks a potential sea change for the treatment of the character’s history. Up to this point, it has been exceedingly rare for Konami to do anything with Bomberman’s past beyond the occasional merchandising opportunity or Bombergirl character. Even before the acquisition, the