Review: FAR: Lone Sails is a Beautiful, Atmospheric Masterpiece
FAR: Lone Sails is the tale of a journey across a dead or dying world, rendered in a beautiful watercolor-esque art style. The debut title of Swiss developer Okomotive, I […]
Antal is video game advocate, retro game collector, and video game historian. He is also a small streamer, occasional podcast guest, and writer.
Review: Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze Swings onto Switch
I’m starting to feel like an unabashed Nintendo fanboy. That might not be a great starting line to establish credibility for a review, but I can’t help but love most […]
Review: The Forest: Survival, Horror
Minor spoilers follow: Developer Endnight describes The Forest as a “terrifying first person survival horror simulator” and it is certainly all of those things. In development for four years, The […]
Preview: Tomb Towers is a Puzzle Platformer from the Past
Tomb Towers is an upcoming puzzle platform game by developer Mosaique Games, which is the effort of sole developer Abdulaziz Alrasheed. In Tomb Towers you take the role of a […]
Review: Super Mega Baseball 2 is Fun, Mechanically Satisfying Baseball Bliss
Super Mega Baseball 2—the name alone evokes nostalgia for a bygone era of SNES generation baseball games: full of unlicensed teams and great couch competition. Super Mega Baseball 2, […]
Review: Despite its Art, Accessibility, Genetic Disaster Can’t Stand Among its Peers
Genetic Disaster by French developer Team8 Studio is co-op, multidirectional shoot ‘em up in the style of Enter the Gungeon and similar titles. You and three other players can use […]
Review: BATTLETECH is Back–All Systems Phenomenal
BattleTech is back—though, it never really left completely. Started as a tabletop game in 1984, the BattleTech franchise has spawned numerous video games, notably the MechWarrior series. When I was […]
Review: The Thin Silence’s Mental Health Message Lost in Purple Prose and Sluggish Gameplay
The Thin Silence developed by Two PM is a little difficult to talk about. It’s not because its themes are hard, though it does carry some weighty subject matter–it’s the […]
Review: God of War Grows Up
God of War has grown up. That’s easily the first impression most fans of the series will have when they play the eighth title in the series. If you’ve been […]
Review: Nintendo Labo is Way More than Just Cardboard
Few people know that Nintendo actually has a history before video games—notably, the first product they produced were Hanafuda playing cards. With Labo, they’ve gone back a bit to their […]
What’s Cooking at Third Coast? Cheesy Italian Style Stuffed Peppers
Stuffed green peppers will always remind me of my dad. When I was growing up my father was the primary cook in the family, and he was genuinely great at […]
Video Game History, Icons and More at 2018 Midwest Gaming Classic
[soliloquy id=”26299″] We had the pleasure to visit Milwaukee this weekend for the Midwest Gaming Classic trade show and convention. It has grown from humble beginnings 17 years ago […]