Taylor Bauer | Phenixx Gaming

Two Point Museum (Nintendo Switch 2) Review

Two Point Museum was one of my gaming highlights earlier this year upon its initial release. Since then, I’ve revisited the game in spurts and sessions when I was feeling that itch for the unique and zany world of Two Point games. Now, the…

Record-Breaking Switch 2 Sales Cross 10 Million

The Nintendo Switch 2 is currently enjoying the largest console launch of all time, and even so, Nintendo is raising its expectations. In its latest financial update, Nintendo reported that the first six months of the Nintendo Switch 2’s lifecycle have yielded…

Pokémon Legends: Z-A Nails This Particular Game Mechanic

In Pokémon Legends: Z-A, much of the experience of the franchise is adjusted and reinvented to feel familiar but new. Unlike Legends: Arceus or the mainline traditional games, there is a particularly narrow scope to not only how you explore the world presented…

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Switch 2 Edition Announced

With over 550 hours in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, I felt confident my time with the game was up, outside of a few visits to see my friends around holiday events. To my surprise and everyone else’s, a new version of the game…

Minigame RPG Cauldron Out Now on Nintendo Switch

It feels like every game nowadays has some blend of genres. You have card-collecting Rogue-likes and action RPGs, but rarely have I seen a minigame genre blend so seamlessly with another genre. That’s where Cauldron seems to have found its place in…

Status Pro X Headphones Impressions

I’m a huge fan of keeping up with the latest and greatest in headphone technology. As someone who loves music, I’m always picking up audiobooks, podcasts, and games; there’s not a whole lot of the day when I’m not listening to something.…

Xbox Profit Goals Reveal Motivation Behind Recent Price Hikes

There’s a famous saying that there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism. Wherever you spend your money, businesses aim to increase profits and decrease costs, no matter what that might mean for their consumers – the people driving that profit. We know that…

Little Nightmares 3 (Nintendo Switch 2) Review

The Little Nightmares franchise is not necessarily a genre-defining, all-time triumph in either platformers or horror games. That said, the desire for a third game in the series was strong enough that, despite the original developers wanting to move on to new things,…

Snoopy & The Great Mystery Club (Nintendo Switch) Review

Snoopy & The Great Mystery Club has something going for it that almost every other game does not. Snoopy is in it. The pop culture icon has seen a resurgence with Gen-Z, including collaborations with The Red Cross for blood drive merch, a…

Super Mario Galaxy 1 + 2 (Nintendo Switch) Review

Great games are getting introduced to new generations every year thanks to a boom in remakes and remasters. There are some like Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater that change very little, and others like Resident Evil 2: Remake that completely redefine what makes…