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 everything they […]
Review: Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze Swings onto Switch
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 Forest originally […]
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, developed by […]
Review: Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is Just a Shame
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, a mobile game developed by Jam City, boasts some pretty high production values for a mobile title. But don’t let any of it fool you, because the iconic setting and […]
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 the more […]
Review: Cologne – Crash and Burn
From the Tron-style motorbikes, to the tube-shaped tracks allowing a full spiral of movement, Cologne, an arcade-style racing title developed by Nhneno Games, elicits the feel of classic future-inspired racing games like […]
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 a kid […]
Review: Lightslinger Heroes Zeroes In On Your Wallet, Forgoes Fun
One of the arcade games I sunk the most time into (and spent the most quarters on) as a kid was Taito’s incredibly popular title, Puzzle Bobble. The cheery music and cute […]
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 actual game […]
Review: A Robot Named Fight is a Grotesque “Metroguelite” Anyone Can Love
A Robot Named Fight is developer Matt Bitner’s carefully crafted homage to the games he loved as a kid. Even if you didn’t play games like Super Metroid, Contra, Mega Man or Castlevania, […]
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 playing the […]
Review: The Spatials: Galactology–To Boldly Build, Mine, and Trade
There’s this weird little thrill you get when playing a strategy management title. It’s the moment when you lay out a new structure, and your workers scuttle about, making your orders happen. […]
