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Pneumata (PS5) Review

Pneumata is defined as “soul, spirit” and more specifically, “holy spirit”. It’s also the namesake of a game that’s seen release on Steam and is gearing up for a PlayStation 5 release on October 4th, 2024. With a premise of searching for your…

Smells Like a Mushroom (PC) Review

The weirder a game, the more I want to play it. This rule of thumb, which disregards quality and polish in search of something that subverts the status quo, has led to many great gaming experiences over the years, whether it’s psychedelic…

Randy Pitchford Accepts Blame for Buggy Risk of Rain 2 DLC

Risk of Rain 2 has been held in high regard as one of the best action roguelikes on the market, ever since its release in 2020. With the combination of edge-of-your-seat adaptive difficulty and a plethora of randomized items, each run was a…

Hollow Survivors: Prologue (PC) Preview

Something I’ve seen from game developers in recent years is instead of releasing short demos, there are several-hour free trials with a wealth of content. A little-known fact is, back in the day, some demos contained the entire game within the disc/download.…

The Violinist Out Now

With a deep background in Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and Dance Dance Revolution, I always keep my eye on any new rhythm games in that fold. So when The Violinist appeared in my deep dive into the Wholesome Games celebration’s list of demos, it was an instant…

Freaked Fleapit Demo Available Now

There’s no shortage of demos to check out on Steam right now, especially after the recent Next Fest gave us so much to test out. One title I found just by scrolling through X and the tag of #screenshotsaturday giving me yet…

“Eggland” Pilot from Adult Swim now available

Adult Swim’s renaissance in the past decade should be studied. Always known for its absurdist, oddball humor, it came to a fever pitch in the 2010s as Rick and Morty was an international phenomenon and the block’s biggest blockbuster to date. Follow that…

DingDongVG’s Summer Resort Now Available

Browser games took a major hit last decade when Adobe Flash began to be unsupported on internet browsers. Gone were the days of wasting time in school with Newgrounds or CoolMathGames, as kids and teens made the transition to phones for their…

Xbox 360 Marketplace is Closed for Business

As of July 29th, 2024, the Xbox 360’s online marketplace cannot be utilized for new purchases anymore. Now two console generations behind and with competent backwards compatibility, Microsoft decided it was time to pull the plug on the system that made up…

Anger Foot (PC) Review

Devolver Digital is as strong a publisher as ever in 2024, releasing memorable titles like Children of the Sun and Pepper Grinder to merely earmark the first half of 2024. Always managing to find developers with such unique titles and elevating them, it was no surprise…