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Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood (PC) Review

Warning: This article contains mentions of death, misogyny, racism, and spoilers for Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood. Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood is the recently released action RPG from developer Cyanide, set in and borrowing from the World of Darkness tabletop RPG…

Doctor Who “The Beast Below” – Review

So, “The Beast Below.” I’ve never really been one for the episode as it is used as a secondary introductory episode, not just of the companion, but the Doctor too. I have other, less prophetic, reasons for not liking it too much,…

Nintendo Direct February 2021 Roundup

It’s been quite a bit since Nintendo has last released a proper Direct. While we got a bunch of mini-versions of this beloved format, yesterday’s Direct was the first one in a while. We got almost an hour’s worth of new announcements,…

Microsoft Announce FPS Boost For Xbox Series X/S

I’ll bang on about this until the day I die, and given the stress of being the acting-senior editor this week (thanks, Texas!), that might just be until Tuesday. In an Xbox Wire post on Wednesday as an update to something said in…

Enhanced System Shock 2 Will Be Playable In VR

It feels like it has been a lifetime already, though NightDive announced their Enhanced Edition of System Shock 2 back in August of 2019. We’ve not heard too much about the development or the details of what is, indeed, being enhanced with this coming release. In…

Civilization VI’s Newest Free Update Arrives Soon

February is one of the “off-season” months, as I like to call them, as far as Sid Meier’s Civilization VI‘s New Frontier Pass is concerned. Even so, that doesn’t mean that the game’s developer Firaxis has just been sitting around twiddling its …

Nintendo Direct Announced for Today

A new Nintendo Direct event is taking place on February 17th. The news broke on February 16th directly from Nintendo. Fans wondered when the next event of this sort might take place. We also got a bit of insight into what to…

February’s Xbox Game Pass Releases Announced

Normally, I wouldn’t cover these things, as I do enough similar articles in weekly series and otherwise to make up for this, but we’re in dry February. It is like dry January, but more stressful as this is when games should be…

Channel Zero Season 3 Episode 1 Review: “Insidious Onset”

Warning: This article contains discussion of mental illness, ableism, and spoilers for Channel Zero. The inaugural episode of Channel Zero‘s third season, this time based on Kerry Hammond’s “Search and Rescue Woods” and here titled “Butcher’s Block,” only peels back the first…

Details Release On Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition

The underground, it’s a smelly, horrible, turgid place, and full of those things that make life a living hell, people. The Metro series is a series of games (Shocker, I know) about depressed people sitting in the squalor of dark and damp hovels…