Category: Reviews
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Moonlight Pulse Review
Last year, we published a pair of articles reviewing the indie game demos we played at PAX East, and I singled out a small title, Moonlight Pulse, as the demo that had me most excited. The game released on Steam this past week, and I was happy to finally play through the full thing. Moonlight…
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Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty Review
Everyone loves a comeback story, and the gaming industry is full of them. Take No Man’s Sky for example; an absolute trainwreck at launch, but over time the game rebuilt its player base and is now a hit with numerous updates that are well received, virtually changing the nature of the game. I am happy…
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Helldivers 2 Review
2024 isn’t off to a great start where the gaming industry is concerned. The mass layoffs from the previous year are not slowing down, but ramping up, controversies are arising from the Culture War via Gamer Gate 2, and corporate bullshit in the form of live service games releasing dead on arrival continues. Looking at…
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2-For-1! Spiritual Successors and a 30XX Review
Growing up, one of my favorite games was Megaman X4. I would eventually play through the entire Megaman X Collection simply because I loved that game and wanted more. The main series was good, sure, but it didn’t quite offer that fast-paced action high that I was getting from the X titles. Despite Megaman 11’s…
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Starfield Review
Oh boy, this one is going to be hard. When it was first announced at E3 in 2018, I was ecstatic! A Bethesda game in space! I had recently gotten into Bethesda and their games. My first experience was Fallout 4, and then Skyrim. I loved both of those games for different reasons. I loved…
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Baldur’s Gate 3 Review
Dungeons and Dragons started out as a tabletop roleplaying game developed by a small company consisting of a handful of individuals. Now it is a giant IP that dominates the genre and has influence in other media. Movies, TV shows, books, and videogames all have projects that build off the lore and worlds of the…
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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Review
Star Wars is one of the biggest franchises of all time, an intellectual property that stretches to movies, TV shows, cartoons, books, and of course video games. Some of the best video games of all time are linked to Star Wars with the likes of the Battlefront 2 (2005) and Knights of the Old Republic.…
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Battle of the VG Bands: Hi-Fi Rush and No Straight Roads
Today, we’ll be taking a look at a pair of similar games that both came out of nowhere. The first is Hi-Fi Rush, the surprise hit from Tango Games, and the second is No Straight Roads, Metronomik’s debut title. Coming out within a close timeframe, and on some of the same consoles, these titles are…
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Hogwarts Legacy Review
The Wizarding World is one of those intellectual properties that has made a lasting impact on our society. Starting as a humble series of books, Harry Potter took the world by storm and its legacy would be cemented into our culture with the eight movies that followed it. Since then, the Wizarding World’s reputation has…
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The Problem with Elden Ring
On February 25th, 2022, Elden Ring was released. Elden Ring is an open world RPG developed by From Software, the developer of Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro. The style of game that this developer has created is coined now as ‘Souls like’. Souls like games throw the player at near impossible hard bosses where dodging,…
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