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2024 in Games: A Review

At the end of the year, I always like to look back and see how the gaming industry performed. I think anyone who pays attention to gaming trends can usually tell when a year is less interesting or enticing than others. 2024…

2024 Albums of the Year – #20-16

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, for me that is. In this series, we’ll explore the 2024 albums of the year, a list of 25 records I believe to be the year’s finest. I love doing this annually for Phenixx…

Top Ten Movie Popcorn Buckets of 2024

While novelty popcorn buckets have been around for quite a few years, there is no doubt that 2024 is the year that the Popcorn Bucket Wars truly heated up! The standard promotional popcorn bucket of the past was either a paper one…

Keiran’s Top 3 Games of 2024

Despite playing very little of the big hitters this year, I’ve found it hard to define the top of my list. I know where the bottom lies, next to a certain Prime Minister from the 80s, but we’ll get to that. As…

2024 Albums of the Year – #25 – 21

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, for me that is. In this series, we’ll explore the 2024 albums of the year, a list of 25 records I believe to be the year’s finest. I love doing this annually for Phenixx…

Gift Guide: Turn-Based Strategy & Tactics Games

I’ve always preferred turn-based strategy games as opposed to real-time strategy. I find I struggle with having to manage multiple units and make tactical decisions without having as much time to think things through as I would prefer, even though I almost…

Phenixx Gaming’s Game of the Year 2024

It’s that time again! The team at Phenixx Gaming has come together to deliver details on our Games of the Year for 2024. Because we come from such different backgrounds and gaming styles, we don’t just pick one game for our entire…

Football Manager 2024 (PC) – Review

Despite storming the field when the team won but wasn’t promoted in 2003, then having season tickets right behind the dugout in the new stadium the year following and beyond, I was never a big fan of whatever you call “the beautiful…

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (Movie) Review

Last Thursday, I went with friends to see The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim. All of us who went to see it were there for a variety of reasons; I am a big fan of The Lord of…

Lower Decks “Of Gods and Angels” – Review

So what exactly happened to Captain Carrol? Directed by Brandon Williams, this is his penultimate episode before we cover “Fissure Quest” towards the end of Lower Decks. I’ve previously covered what Williams has done in his other episode of the season, “The…