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Stranger Things 3: The Game (Switch) Review

I have gotten to the age where I understand what the phrase, “They don’t make ‘em like they used to,” feels like. There’s a certain sadness when a genre evolves and leaves behind the “tried and true” for new mechanics. These new…

Moonlight & This War of Mine Free On Epic Game Store

It may very well be obvious to say, but I enjoy video games. I know, shocking that a “games journalist,” (who makes too many phallic jokes for his own good) would like the medium he covers. However, part of the job is…

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (PS4) Review

I have followed the development of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night since it’s’ highly successful Kickstarter campaign in 2015. I have been a big fan of Koji Igarashi’s Castlevania games for a long while, so when Bloodstained was revealed and funded, I…

Remembering Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

July 22nd marked the 15th anniversary of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. It was the Gamecube sequel to the first Paper Mario on Nintendo 64 and it’s largely considered to be the best of the Mario RPGs. Let’s take a quick look…

Hardest Super Mario Maker 2 Level Goes Viral

You’ve probably seen it everywhere on social media. A particularly hard Super Mario Maker 2 level is catching a lot of eyes. A lot of the online levels of Super Mario Maker 2 are hard, as I noted in my review; but…

Anodyne 2: Return to Dust Coming Soon

Anodyne 2: Return to Dust is a game made by Analgesic Productions, consisting of Sean Han Tani and Marina Ayano Kittaka. It is a sequel to Anodyne, though it’s a sequel in the Final Fantasy sense in that similar elements are shared…

Fade To Silence (Xbox One) – Review

If you ask me, two types of games hold the player in contempt. One is fun and is my Mr. Grey, the other is imitating that prior game poorly. Sexual endeavors with the monsters in Dark Souls and Bloodborne aside. I’ve been…

Pokémon Go Adds Shadow Pokémon, Team Rocket

Pokémon Go is still up and running, even if you haven’t touched it in three years. Now, Team Rocket and Shadow Pokémon are joining the adventure. This week, Niantic started rolling out an update bringing two major changes to the game. First,…

Overwatch Introduces New Hero: Sigma

Coming off the heels of the Summer Games, Overwatch has put out a trailer for Sigma, the game’s 31st playable character. In the lore, Sigma was formerly astrophysicist Siebren de Kuiper, a man that tried to research the nature of gravity. After…

Two Point Hospital Coming To Switch, PS4, Xbox One Late 2019

Being a child of the 90’s, I grew up with all the best games surrounding me from the moment of birth. Grand Theft Auto was developed in a building less than an hour’s travel from where I was born, Doom still stood…