Patrick Anderson
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With another Summer Olympics fast approaching next year, that means another installment of SEGA’s long-running Mario & Sonic Olympic game series. And Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 has a bit of special vibe to it, being in Japan and also the first title on the Switch....
Being a kid, riding your bike with your friends — no school, no parents, just freedom and fun in the sun. Who wouldn’t be instantly attracted to the quaint, simple premise of Knights and Bikes, from developer Foam Sword? It’s a co-op adventure, with two protagonists setting off on their...
So, I just finished saving the universe. Well, technically, a weird purple guy named Trover saved the universe, but I helped him along from the comfort of my couch. Along the way, we electrocuted a guy in a bathtub, pushed someone’s house off a cliff and yanked two dogs out...
If you’ve always longed for a dog or cat of your very own to cuddle, play with and dress up, now you can in convenient handheld form with Little Friends: Dogs & Cats from Imagineer and Sold Out Games. You get all the adorable-ness of owning a puppy or kitten,...
Spread over 20 missions, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown puts you in the cockpit of modern, realistic fighter jets as Trigger, the game’s unseen protagonist. I’ve never played the previous titles in the Ace Combat series (it’s been around for decades) but I was able to quickly pick up the...
Having never played any of the Sky Force games over the years, I confess I came to the review for the latest installment, Sky Force Anniversary on the Switch, with a blank slate. At first glance, there’s certainly a lot that is familiar – it’s a vertical-scrolling airplane shoot em...
If you’ve had the fever for a great tycoon game in the vein of those 90s classics – especially Theme Hospital – then Two Point Studios has the cure. Taking all the best aspects of past titles and somehow making them even better, Two Point Hospital is a true delight...
Pool Panic
Pool Panic, now out on the Nintendo Switch, is hyped by developer Rekim as “the world’s least realistic pool simulator,” and after playing it I would definitely agree. While it takes its basic cue from the traditional game of billiards, this little game takes demented glee in twisting, warping and...
There’s apparently a lot of little things you have to do when you drive a public transit bus, and Bus Simulator 18 has clearly gone to great pains to replicate them all realistically. You’ve got to manage the lights (exterior and interior), front and rear doors, a ticket machine, wheelchair...
Agony
Back in 2015, indie Kickstarter project Agony (then called “Sacred Agony”) gained a lot of attention by promising to take us on a first-person journey through Hell itself. Since then, screens and videos have only stoked the infernal fires of player interest with their fascinating, sometimes-disturbing teasers of what the...
Dreadnought
Dreadnought, from Six Foot Games, left the Beta stage on December 5th and its floating battleship mayhem has commenced in full force on the PS4. Should you fork over your hard earned money on it? Definitely not … because it’s free to play! See what I did there? But of...
The Sims 4
The Sims has been a hugely popular game series ever since its debut in 2000. That’s because it, perhaps better than any other series of video games, distils the essence of playing God into its purest, most potent form and lets players live out their vicarious fantasies in ways they...
