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WrestleMania XL Night 1 Review

Editor’s Note: The following article was written before Night 2 of WrestleMania XL. Some thoughts are reflective of Night 1 only. WWE is in something of a boom era after the unceremonious passing of the guard from McMahon to Levesque, as an…

Smiling Friends Season Two Details

Adult Swim loves to play April Fools’ jokes – they never miss a year. Notably bringing back Toonami for a night in the early 2010s with so much fervor that it returned eventually. Smiling Friends had some hype generated for their April…

Smiling Friends Season Two Nearing

Smiling Friends set the adult cartoon world ablaze when it launched with a pilot in 2020 and a full season following in early 2022. The absurd, hysterical show captivated fans with out-of-left-field jokes and bizarre plots, with every episode ending on a…

Outcast: A New Beginning (PC) Review

Whenever a long-forgotten franchise gets a surprise sequel announcement several years on, it can spark a lot of renewed interest for fans nostalgic for a great experience they had ages ago. No series is off-limits, it seems, as trailers for Alan Wake…

Messy Battlefront Classic Collection Launch Implications

With PC game launches consistently being a catastrophe for years upon years now, it’s no wonder I couldn’t get excited for the announcement of the Star Wars Battlefront Classic Collection. Developed and published by Aspyr, who were on the hook for the…

BORE BLASTERS (PC) Review

I’ll never be able to get enough of the feeling of persistent progression within Rogue-lite games. The rewarding feeling that comes with every play session, whether it be hours of a grind I actually want to do or a brief pick-up-and-play for…

Warhammer 40K: Shootas, Blood & Teef (PS5) Review

We’ve covered all manners of the Warhammer 40K universe in gaming here at Phenixx Gaming, whether it be Warhammer 40K: Boltgun which hits Xbox Game Pass this month, or the expansive Warhammer 40K: Darktide, which is still going strong. One release that slipped past my mind…

Trinity Fusion (PS5) Review

As we’ve covered many Rogue-lites in the past, one such genre fusion I tend to shy away from is Metroidvania. While I find this meshing to be the most reliant upon RNG and brute forcing through some areas ignoring enemies to survive…

Tchia (PS5) Review

Tchia was a game we had our eye keenly on a year ago. An open-world adventure game based on the small archipelago of New Caledonia off the coast of Australia, it’s an homage and tribute to the area as much as it is…

Bee Simulator (PS4) Review

There’s something about simulators that has captivated me in recent years. Whether it’s the effervescent relaxation that Powerwash Simulator brings me or the way MudRunner activates a part of the brain I rarely use, I find these titles as rewarding as they are innovative. So…