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Wax Heads (PC) Review

You kids today have things so easy, with your music streaming platforms that pay artists a pittance. Back in my day, if we wanted to acquire music through the Internet, we had to buy songs in a proprietary format on iTunes. Or,…

Bus Bound (PC) – Review

A handful of years later, and I am still both positively and negatively talking about Stillalive Studios’ previous bus-based simulation game. It would seem like poor form to mention it by name in the opening line of the review of the new…

Heated Rivalry and the Otherness of Gay Men

It has taken me a while to figure out how I wanted to approach this topic. I love Heated Rivalry. In fact, it settles into a part of me that would have suggested you were stupid (or crazy) if you told me…

Aether & Iron (PC) – Review

I was almost a very sad man last month, as I looked forlornly at Seismic Squirrel and Chaos Theory Games’ Aether & Iron after not seeing a review copy land on my doorstep. However, that was simply a problem with our emails,…

Vampire Crawlers (PC) Review

Oh, my dearest poncle, what have you done to me? I swear, after spending hundreds of hours on Vampire Survivors (and its various DLCs), I knew that Vampire Crawlers was going to swallow me. As I suspected, Vampire Crawlers is a surprising…

ATMOSFAR gets May release date

I promise, I’m not annoyed when games get their release date announced two to three weeks before, that totally doesn’t annoy me in the slightest. Aside from when it does, and you have the likes of Apog Labs and Sheisha Games announcing…

SoulQuest (PC) Review

I love a good action game. In fact, Bayonetta and Okami are two of my favorite games of all time. SoulQuest is inspired by this sort of action, but the irony is that the soul of those games doesn’t quite reach this…

Xbox Mode is Arriving on Windows 11 PCs

While the “This is an Xbox” campaign didn’t last beyond the tenure of Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond, the concept of Xbox expanding beyond the traditional console space lives on. With a growing number of gamers gravitating toward the PC experience, especially…

Oddsparks & Streets of Rage 4 are free on Epic

Monday, there is new stuff coming to Fatal Fury: City of Wolves. I’m sure the furries are delighted. Tuesday, PowerWash Sim 2 has its own R2D2 soon, and that will be my dad screaming bloody murder when something opens, again. There Are…

Ugly Betty “East Side Story” – Review

To borrow from Tim Gunn this season: A prison break, a high school musical, a sex dungeon, a birth certificate, a pregnancy, a car crash, three weddings, and a soon-to-be funeral – oh my! Directed by the man who makes more impact…