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2021 may not have been a great year overall, but it was a great year for video games. There were…

Review: Death’s Gambit: Afterlife Is a Whole New Experience

I never played Death’s Gambit on its original release. There are so any soulslike and metroidvania games that Death’s Gambit…

I came to Axiom Verge late, only playing the first game in series just a year or so ago. I…

Growing up watching cartoons in the 90s, there were lots of shows about “cyberspace” with ancient computer graphics and cheesy…

I’ve played a lot of platformers and puzzle platformers over the years—and while I definitely got sick of platformers when…

I first heard of Dandara when a writer pitched the review to me in 2018.When he submitted it, all I…

A Robot Named Fight is developer Matt Bitner’s carefully crafted homage to the games he loved as a kid. Even…