Threads of Time Revealed at TGS
Time elements have been a part of JRPGs for a while now. Indie games have taken a page from Chrono Trigger and really utilized them in fun ways. Cris Tales is a game that comes to mind, but a new game announced…
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The Spirit and the Mouse is free on Epic
Monday, Gas Station Simulator has a new DLC, and Captain Majima is on deck for the new Like a Dragon game next year. Tuesday, Blasphemous II has gotten DLC and a free update. Wednesday, there was a State of Play announced not…
Star Trek: Picard “Seventeen Seconds” – Review
With Frakes at the helm, you knew that “Seventeen Seconds” was going to be 17 seconds because he’s the type of person to take these things seriously. Directed by the serial leg-cocker himself, “Seventeen Seconds” had to be the early emotional heart…
Assassin’s Creed Shadows Delayed to 2025
Delays aren’t unheard of, and they certainly happen to AAA titles regularly, but Ubisoft surprised everyone yesterday with a delay for its flagship stealth series. Assassin’s Creed Shadows, set to release November 12, 2024, will now be held back to February 2025.…
Golden Lap (PC) – Review
The age of cigarettes and cigars clouding the paddock, champagne being more than sparkling water at some races, and just before James Hunt would come and shag everything with legs. The “golden” age of F1 is something some fans fawn over to…
Fae Farm Heading to PlayStation and Xbox
We’re experiencing no shortage of farming sims in the last 10 years. For a genre that felt more or less reduced down to the Harvest Moon franchise, there are now small indie teams and major AAA studios working on farming simulators. One of…
A Brief History of Backyard Baseball
With news dropping today that a remaster of the original Backyard Baseball game released in 1997 will be coming to Steam on October 10th, I thought that it would be appropriate to bring everyone up to speed about this franchise. If you…
PlayStation State of Play September 2024 Roundup
We’re getting to the end of the year. This means we have very little time between now and the Game Awards. It also means that developers will have a last-ditch effort to announce and update details on upcoming games. This week we…
Keylocker (Nintendo Switch) Review
I have a love-hate relationship with action commands. I love games like Paper Mario and the Mario & Luigi series, but sometimes those timed action commands are an accessibility issue. I went into Moonana’s Keylocker with an open mind after playing Virgo…
Xbox Talks Carbon Reduction Days after Energy Announcement
Typically I try not to blend two pieces of news together and just cover the most recent thing, but honestly, this one seems like it needs it for context. We’ll start with the more wholesome, face-value niceness then progress to everyone dogpiling…