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Doctor Who Series 2 “Fear Her” Review

To Doctor Who fans there are very few words that precisely strike fear in the hearts of all of them at once. “Paul Chuckle is The Master,” “Chris Chibnall is your new showrunner,” and “Fear Her,” it terrifies the Christ out of every…

Underhero (PC) Review

Underhero by Paper Castle Games is a 2D side-scrolling game with RPG and platforming elements. You play as a nameless, masked minion to the kind of cartoony overlord boss most video games ask you to defeat. Underhero plays with and bucks familiar ideas…

NHL 21 is Next-Gen Compatible

NHL 21 is set to release this October for the Xbox One and PS4. For a while now, fans wondered if next-gen versions of the game would release as well. EA Sports is now confirming that they are forgoing a next-gen version.…

Neon Abyss (Switch) Review

I am a huge Roguelike fan. I started out with Dungeons of Dredmor and then moved onto Rogue Legacy and The Binding of Isaac. In recent years I’ve gotten into Enter the Gungeon, Slay the Spire, and plenty of other roguelike titles.…

Women and Queerness in Horror: The Perfection

Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Perfection, mentions of sex and violence, mentions of self-harm, and mentions of child sexual abuse and rape. Last week, I talked about the meandering, lesbian-fear-inflected Single White Female. I went into all the ways it…

Ubisoft Exec says “Women Don’t Sell Games;” They do!

Ubisoft is getting a right good kicking of late, for all the right reasons. If you’ve been living under a rock, the company has copped about a dozen sexual misconduct and harassment claims in the last three or so weeks. Now, following…

How Long Will the Xbox One Last Into Next-Gen?

Microsoft indicates that the Xbox One will still play for years into the Xbox Series X’s lifespan. How will that work and what can current Xbox One owner expect for the console? To be fair, it’s impossible to imagine that the Xbox…

Kentucky Route Zero: Act I (PC) Review

Bugs chirp as a truck rolls into a darkened gas station. The name, Equus Oils, is silhouetted against a twilight sky. The sun is heavy and swollen as it lowers, casting an incongruous darkness in the foreground. A man gets out of…

How Lovecraftian is Apostle (2018), anyway?

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Apostle, images of violence and blood, and mentions of racism. Many a horror fan and purveyor of all things cosmic and monster-kind, has reached the point in their fandom life of disavowing H.P. Lovecraft. Not all…

Keen – One Girl Army (Nintendo Switch) Review

Keen – One Girl Army is a neon-bright game with charming visuals and puzzles that are sure to make you take a deep breath, say, “I’ll just try again later” and angrily shove your Switch in your bag. That is to say:…