Preview: Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time Is Gonna Be Great
I played Crash Bandicoot on PlayStation when it originally released, but it’s one of the games of that generation that never clicked. I think I was obsessed with more action-oriented […]
Antal is video game advocate, retro game collector, and video game historian. He is also a small streamer, occasional podcast guest, and writer.
Review: Rules-Light MÖRK BORG Is Stunning and Brutal
My tabletop role-playing group has been playing a lot of Alien: The Roleplaying Game by Free League Publishing. It’s a great, tense reproduction of the Alien movies with rules and […]
Review: Over the Top Serious Sam 4 Is More of What you Want
I can remember my “git gud” moments in video games pretty clearly. I always think I’m good enough, and then something comes along to challenge that—whether it is insanely good […]
Review: Innovative Tower Defense Rip Them Off Fails to Be Fun
Tower defense games are a bit of a stigma to some. Unless you can stand out from the crowd, you’re doing what’s already been done before. But when a tower […]
Review: Hilarious Going Under Is Unlike Any Other Roguelike
To some the subgenre “roguelike” is a bad word. It means difficult gameplay, and to some, frustration. What if I told you that roguelikes aren’t all for hardcore gamers, and […]
Review: Co-Op Unrailed! Is Hilarious, Difficult
I love co-op games. Playing with my wife or friends is great, and made even greater if we’re working together to achieve the same goal. And we’ll play all sorts […]
Preview: Colony Builder Ragnorium Takes a Familiar Concept and Adds a Sci-Fi Veneer
A few years ago everyone was excited for Banished—a colony building game where you had to see a group of people create a home for themselves in harsh wilderness. The […]
Preview: Drift 21 Is Part Racing Game, Part Garage Sim
If you’re playing a modern racing game, you should expect some sort of drift mechanic to come into play. In a more serious racing sim, then it might be possible […]
Review: Spinch Is a Visual Delight
We’re huge advocates of video games as art—we cover video game art galleries, and have advocated many times for games to be recognized as the art form they are. And […]
Review: The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos Is an Unexpectedly Good Comedy RPG
For the last year or so I’ve been getting into tabletop gaming. When I first started out, I had a weird notion of what it was about—super serious people pretending […]
Review: Prequel Dungeon Crawler Vaporum: Lockdown Is a Solid Follow-Up
As I found myself getting deeper into tabletop role-playing games, I started to understand the draw behind grid-based dungeon crawlers. Those dungeon crawlers were ever-present growing up, and it wasn’t […]
Review: Rhythm Shooter Hybrid BPM: Bullets Per Minute Succeeds at Merging Metal and Mayhem
I think when I first got my hands on BPM: Bullets Per Minute, I said the mash-up of first person shooter and rhythm game was the best thing since chocolate […]