House of Games #57 - Remasters, Remakes, Reboots, and Ports

Join us as we untangle the spaghetti mess 🍝 of terms like Remasters 🎵, Remakes 🔄, Reboots 🔁, and Ports 🚢. What do they mean? How do they differ? Find out all this and more in this week's episode of House of Games! 🏠🎮🔍💡

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Chapters
00:00 Episode Intro
00:31 Introducing the Episode Topic
06:10 StarCraft: Remastered
16:38 Defining Reboots, Remakes, Remasters, and Ports
42:36 Remaking Your Own Games
46:45 Episode Outro

Your Hosts and Their Games
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2436180/Sunset_Moon/ - Wishlist Sunset Moon on Steam!
https://www.play-asia.com/red-colony-trilogy/13/70fmjh - Buy the Red Colony trilogy on Switch!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/24596/Red_Colony_Uncensored_Threesome_Bundle/ - Buy the Red Colony trilogy on Steam!
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/knifeboy-rebooted-switch/ - Buy KnifeBoy on Switch!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/889130/KnifeBoy_Rebooted/ - Buy KnifeBoy on Steam!
https://ottowretling.medium.com/list/game-development-427e99aefd01 - Read Otto's blog about game development!
https://discord.gg/mYM72SQ9CP - The discord server for Game Hub Umeå.

Games
https://ffvii-remake.square-enix-games.com/en-us - The homepage for Final Fantasy VII Remake.
https://starcraft.blizzard.com/ - The homepage for StarCraft: Remastered.
https://warcraft3.blizzard.com/en-us/ - The homepage for Warcraft III: Reforged.
https://www.factorio.com/ - The homepage for Factorio.
https://www.catherinethegame.com/ - The homepage for Catherine.
https://www.playstation.com/en-se/games/demons-souls/ - The homepage for Demon's Souls.
https://www.bandainamcoent.com/games/dark-souls-remastered - The homepage for Dark Souls: Remastered.
https://insomniac.games/game/ratchet-and-clank-ps4/ - The homepage for Ratchet & Clank for PlayStation 4.
https://www.half-life.com/en/halflife25 - The homepage for the 25th Anniversary update of Half-Life.
https://www.crowbarcollective.com/games/black-mesa - The homepage for Black Mesa.
https://thelastofus.com/ - The homepage for The Last of Us franchise.
https://www.guerrilla-games.com/games - The homepage for the Horizon franchise.
https://www.residentevil.com/ - The homepage for the Resident Evil franchise.
https://www.konami.com/games/silenthill/gate - The homepage for the Silent Hill franchise.
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/god-of-war/ - The homepage for the God of War franchise.

Articles and Videos
https://kevurugames.com/blog/remasters-remakes-reboots-and-ports-in-video-games/ - The article "Video Game Remasters, Remakes, Reboots, and Ports - Feel the Difference" at Kevuru Games.
https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/starcraft/20695698/remastering-starcraft-s-art - The article "Remastering StarCraft's Art" on the Blizzard News section.

Get all the links and the transcript for this episode right here: https://medium.com/@ottowretling/house-of-games-57-remasters-remakes-reboots-and-ports-4e3d4f685a04