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Star Trek: Picard “Stardust City Rag” – Review

Yippie, garish costume design by drugs fired out of a shotgun. The first episode not to be written by Chabon, “Stardust City Rag” is written by Kirsten Beyer, and she’s only ever written for Star Trek, though sadly that also means she’s a…

Where Winds Meet Announces Closed Beta Test

One of the games that really stood out to me last year was Where Winds Meet. The Open-World game created by Chinese developer Everstone Studio immediately caught my attention due to its Wuxia-inspired world. Luckily, it seems that select PC players will…

1.0 Release Announced for Instruments of Destruction

It was only at the last Winter sales that I bothered to pick up the Re-Mars-tered edition of Red Faction: Guerrilla. I haven’t played it yet, as I had reviews and Baldur’s Gate 3-based smooching to be getting on with, but my PS3 edition of Red Faction:…

Embracer Sells Gearbox to 2K; Layoffs Included

It is difficult to tell the owners of any given company now, as you’ll have noticed when looking up a developer on Wikipedia. Rockstar is owned by Take-Two which also owns 2K, Microsoft now owns Activision-Blizzard|King which in turn owns The Simpson’s Hit…

Comic Book Corner: Sweet Tooth

Today I’ll be taking a look at Sweet Tooth, a 40-issue comic series written and illustrated by Jeff Lemire. The book was published by DC Comics under the Vertigo label, and originally ran from 2009- 2013. Sweet Tooth was also adapted into…

Saviorless is Out Now

Announced only a couple of weeks ago, Dear Villagers and Empty Head Games’ Saviorless is something that certainly wasn’t on my radar until I got a press release a week or two ago. Touted as “The first independent Cuban video game,” Saviorless was first revealed as an…

Smiling Friends Season Two Details

Adult Swim loves to play April Fools’ jokes – they never miss a year. Notably bringing back Toonami for a night in the early 2010s with so much fervor that it returned eventually. Smiling Friends had some hype generated for their April…

Hauma – A Detective Noir Story Gets Switch Release Window

I love a good detective story. More specifically, the Noir aesthetic really hits the right note for me in terms of tone and theme for a detective story. Now, it seems that Assemble Entertainment and developer SenAm have plans for their Noir-themed…

SolForge Fusion Card Game Coming to Steam

As I’ve discussed in some of my past articles here, I’m a massive fan of card games and I am always looking for new gems within the genre to try out. SolForge Fusion is a deckbuilding game developed by designers Justin Gary…

Tomb Raider I-III Remastered (PC) – Review

Witchcraft and wizardry, that’s what is going on with the Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft. This collection retains what makes the Tomb Raider games the classics they are to the modernization of certain aspects without entirely sacrificing what made them great.…