Like many kids I spent countless hours playing with Legos—and then smashing them apart in various crash tests, or just to see them explode spectacularly. Despite there being a lot […]
It feels like you can’t open up Steam without being greeted by a new soulslike. With the runaway success of From Software’s gritty, cryptic action role-playing games, it’s not surprising […]
Long about the original demo, I excitedly watched some Ooblets gameplay. Cute pastel village, dancing anthropomorphized animal/plant things, and a card battle structure vaguely reminiscent of Slay the Spire? Sounds […]
I think the beat ‘em up genre needs a resurgence, much like old school shooters enjoyed after 2016’s Doom. I’m not saying that Midnight Fight Express is going to be […]
When I first heard about Tyrant’s Blessing it was being heavily compared to tactical turn-based strategy game Into the Breach. Well, that was all it took to get my attention, […]
I can’t tell you how many hours I spent at home on NES and SNES or at the arcade playing Turtles beat ‘em ups like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: […]
I love video games. They’re able to give us experiences like Card Shark, where no other medium possibly could. I would say the closest films come to the same feeling […]
When I first hear about Vampire: The Masquerade —Swansong, and saw its first trailer, I think I may have been anticipating something more like Bloodlines than Coteries of New York, […]
Oooooo… oh, well, you probably know what I’m going to be talkin’ ‘bout. Bugsnax was one of my favorite games of 2020, and it’s great to be able to return […]
When I had the chance to review FAR: Lone Sails before its release, I thought for sure it was going to be a huge deal. To me, it was similar […]
River City Girls is becoming a popular franchise, with its initial first release being a critical success and a sequel on the way, but the characters of Misako and Kyoko […]
Sometimes the best or most exciting games I’ve played were mash-ups of genres. Surprisingly, when I heard about Zombie Rollerz and its mash-up of pinball and roguelike, I wasn’t very […]