So I wrote about Everspace 2 during its prototype phase, way back in May of last year. What I got to play then was a solid framework for an action […]

Times are strange. At least, that’s the case in Shakes on a Plane, where aliens obsessed with culinary competition reality shows have been “chopped” and, not to be beaten, decided […]

The original Super Meat Boy holds a special place in my heart. It’s the game that made me think again about platformers: their controls, their difficulty. I used to see […]

Olija is an adventure game that gives me strong Out of the World/Another World vibes, but manages to be so completely different. In Olija you play as Captain Faraday, stranded […]

I’ve been on a massive Neo Geo kick lately. The old SNK Neo Geo fighting games were always so advanced for their time, with such high fidelity pixel graphics, they […]

So long 2020—you were a terrible year for a lot of reasons, but a surprisingly good year for video games. Sure, there was the big letdown that was Cyberpunk 2077. […]

Launched with Apple Arcade in September 2019, Grindstone made its way to the Nintendo Switch this month. As one of the subscription service’s biggest original titles, the game is finally […]

I’m usually the first to say that puzzle games are completely dependent on the person playing them. Some people can get through a puzzle game in half the time it […]

  Videogames are a medium for interactive storytelling. Some games expand artistic boundaries by telling smaller, more intimate vignettes–personal stories that aim for the heart and are not made to […]

I have a lot of good memories growing up of time spent with My Little Ponies and Barbies and Strawberry Shortcake dolls. It wasn’t necessarily about the dolls, all soft […]

I’ve been playing Worms for a long time—at least since the original, with most of my playtime being with Worms 2 and Worms Armageddon. I loved the turn-based strategic gameplay, […]

I’ve played a few adventure games based on literary works in my time—heck, at least one of them was this year with Metamorphosis, a first person adventure game based on […]