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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…

Trinity Fusion (PS5) Review

As we’ve covered many Rogue-lites in the past, one such genre fusion I tend to shy away from is Metroidvania. While I find this meshing to be the most reliant upon RNG and brute forcing through some areas ignoring enemies to survive…

Freedom Planet 2 Comes to Consoles in April

I’d say of all the indie games that have tried to mimic the style of Sonic the Hedgehog, Freedom Planet is the only one that succeeded in capturing that classic magic. I loved Freedom Planet. To my excitement, Freedom Planet 2 is…

Pokémon Presents News Breakdown

Yesterday in celebration of Pokémon Day, The Pokémon Company released a special presentation regarding upcoming releases for the franchise within the next few years. The first announcement is in regards to Scarlet and Violet, which will hold some special Tera Raid battle…

Supermassive Games to Layoff Portion of Staff

The video game industry continues to see record layoffs in a time of turmoil and transition. With major companies like Microsoft and Embracer Group included in these layoffs, it’s no surprise that smaller studios are also seeing unfortunate mass departures. Supermassive Games,…

ENDER MAGNOLIA Releasing in March

One of the more enjoyable 2D Souls-likes in the last few years following Hollow Knight and Blasphemous is Live Wire and Adglobe’s ENDER LILLIES. Announced last Wednesday, during the third-party Nintendo Direct, a sequel has been in the works for quite some time, it seems. ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom…