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The Orville Season 3 – Episode 3 Review

Warning: This review may contain spoilers for episode 3 of The Orville’s third season, as well as season 1 episode 12, “Mad Idolatry.” One of the best things about The Orville is that you never know when characters, stories, or concepts from…

Mineko’s Night Market (PS5) Review

Game development is a tall task, and sometimes games can take an immeasurable amount of time to release. Whether it be development hell or a developer who wants to see their vision fully realized, players can wait years upon years for a…

Fashion Dreamer (Switch) Review

The Style Savvy games of the DS are a thing of legend for a particular corner of the gaming world. With thousands of outfits to put together for characters, they felt infinite in their offering for anyone interested in fashion. The developer, syn…

Agatha Christie – The London Case (Switch) Review

I have grown to love the Agatha Christie games. I’ve always enjoyed a good mystery, and both The ABC Murders and The First Cases were great adaptations of Agatha Christie’s work. Hercule Poirot’s work is never done, yet The London Case makes me…

EA Sports WRC (PC) Review

Control, finesse, and focus. These are three things I do not have, especially at 9 PM on a Tuesday or 4 AM on a Wednesday. After last year’s WRC Generations, a new development team and a new publishing team bring EA Sports…

The Marvels (Film) Review

While most Marvel fans were at home watching the season finale of Loki, I decided to head on down to my local movie theater and watch The Marvels. The sequel to Captain Marvel and a continuation of the growing Marvel Cinematic Universe,…

SNW “Subspace Rhapsody” – Review

Do we want to talk about a Black woman being a glorified space telephone operator at the start of the episode? Okay, I’ll move on to Dana Horgan and Bill Wolkoff’s “Subspace Rhapsody.” Horgan previously wrote for “Ad Astra Per Aspera” while…

The Expanse: A Telltale Series – Archangel (PS5) Review

As I played through the bi-weekly episodes of The Expanse: A Telltale Series a few months ago, I enjoyed the studios’ return to form and risk-taking, but lamented the brief nature and lack of decision clarity. Nevertheless, as a newcomer to the subject…

Beyond Sunset (PC) Early Access Preview

The “boomer shooter” rise in the gaming industry has been fun to watch over the past decade, with games like Dusk, Warhammer 40K: Boltgun, and even Quake games getting remastered proving that DOOM had the winning formula from the start. There’s nothing like grabbing color-coded keys and…

The Orville Season 3 – Episode 2 Review

Warning: This review may contain spoilers for episode 2 of The Orville’s third season, as well as episode 1, “Electric Sheep.” Watching the first episode of The Orville: New Horizons (The Orville’s third season) left me feeling both excited for the season…