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Frozen Way Announces “Dine Out” House Flipper DLC

I find it somewhat strange that House Flipper is still getting DLC whilst House Flipper 2 is out in the wild. However, as someone who champions continued support for games, it is a great thing to see. House Flipper’s latest DLC will…

Classified: France ’44 (PC) – Review

Before your Navy Seals and modern US Rangers, the UK was forced to create the special forces as we know them today. While David Stirling and the SAS were off in Africa and eventually taking on Operation Pegasus, and the SBS were…

Mario vs. Donkey Kong Review

First released in 2004 for the Game Boy Advance, Mario vs. Donkey Kong took the Super Mario experience and expanded it to focus more on puzzles and less on platforming. Reintroducing Donkey Kong as a villain after many games focusing on Bowser helped spark a…

Venba’s Free Cookbook DLC is Coming Soon

One of the highlights of 2023 for me was Venba, Visai Games’ delightful and heartfelt cooking game. While the experience was short, it was also highly impactful, and I found myself wishing I could just spend more time with it. It turns…

Prime Gaming – March 2024

I sat and worked it out. If every Prime subscription was paid in full in US dollars, that would generate Amazon around $32 billion a year, which doesn’t account for Prime Music subscriptions, sales on Amazon, or anything else; it also doesn’t…

Netflix’s Avatar is a Waste of Time

Like many folks, I grew up with Avatar: The Last Airbender. In fact, it’s probably my favorite show ever. I’ve seen the original series so many times that I was willing to give the newest adaptation by Netflix a fair shot. Now…

Aerial_Knight’s Never Yield is Free on Epic

Monday, Primal Planet is a Metroidvania with a prehistoric twist. Tuesday, Pepper Grinder, which we’ve covered multiple times already, has finally gotten a March release date, as did ENDER MAGNOLIA, the sequel to ENDER LILIES. Meanwhile, Supermassive joined EA and Sony in the cascade of laying off staff, the latest…

Lower Decks “Old Friends, New Planets” – Review

An episode that’s a 30-minute version of Wrath of Khan, with heavy connections to TNG, including “Lower Decks?” I’m in! Directed by Bob Suarez, he returns from “Something Borrowed, Something Green” and “A Few Badgeys More” from earlier this season. As I’ve said before,…

Bethesda is Releasing a New Fallout Anthology

Few Western RPGs have made the impact on video games that Fallout has. There’s a new show on the way, a fairly active MMORPG continuing to get updates, and plenty of people revisiting the older titles on services like Xbox Game Pass. Bethesda, the…

Remedy Entertainment Purchases Control IP Rights

Control is one of my favorite games of all time. I could talk for hours about how Remedy Entertainment perfectly executed the worldbuilding and set up a world endlessly ripe for exploration in the future. To my excitement, the future seems bright…