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From the team who gave us the original zombie horde shooter, Turtle Rock Studios returns with Back 4 Blood. The online multiplayer first-person shooter is a spiritual successor to the beloved Left 4 Dead series, mostly similar in gameplay and tone. While there are certainly issues making some ravenous, overall...
Much like annual sports games and competitive multiplayer shooters, The Jackbox Party Pack has become a dependable yearly release – ready to provide accessible entertainment and player-driven shenanigans for the eighth year in a row. The Jackbox Party Pack 8 has now been released and with it comes 5 irreverent...
If you had asked me weeks ago, I doubted that I’d be presenting a review for JETT: The Far Shore without seeing the end credits. Although unfortunately, mere days before the game was released, my save data corrupted during an update and I lost all progress. With that said though,...
Square Enix as a video game publisher and developer have existed for over thirty-five years at this point. Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest… they’re behind so many known and beloved franchises. Admittedly, I wasn’t alive at the time of the studio’s infancy or golden years. Naturally, there’s then going to be some titles...
Nintendo has been keenly showing us trailers for Metroid Dread ever since they announced it earlier this year. They even went so far as to create a whole series of “Dread Reports”, providing a retrospective look at the Metroid series and how it all connects to this newest title. It...
No other franchise quite nails the “big violent playground of chaos” vibes quite like Far Cry. It’s one of my favourites of the various Ubisoft open-world templates, providing an endlessly satisfying adventure that has you galivanting about a massive island, causing explosions and slowly capturing piece after piece while completing...
Alan Wake is a name few people will recognise outside the video game cultural zeitgeist, i.e. if you didn’t play it when it was released all the way back in 2010, you’ve most likely never played or heard about it since. Despite its soon to be discovered brilliance in game...
Astria Ascending is an RPG with a distinguished pedigree behind it. The story was written by Kazushige Nojima, a veteran of the Final Fantasy series, and the music was composed by the legendary Hitoshi Sakimoto. With names like these, and a unique take on turn-based combat, French-Canadian developer Artisan Games...
Rogue Lords is exactly the kind of game we love to watch crop up around October. Hiding behind this somewhat generic name is a turn-based roguelike that holds all the makings of a perfect Halloween game: It’s got a gothic, Dark-Ages setting full of vampires and witches, it’s got famous...
Ever get an itch to play something simplistic yet innately satisfying in design? Sega and Rya Ga Gotoku’s Super Monkey Ball franchise has become that for me in recent years. The series has but one simple concept that lasts surprisingly well for each entry and its bountiful level count. That concept...
Activision Blizzard is currently facing serious ongoing allegations of harassment and mistreatment of marginalised workers, along with a toxic work environment for its employees. To learn more, please click here.
No fitness game can exist in a vacuum. There’s an established body of weight loss, strength training, and resistance-building software that resists traditional gaming industry trends and often the pull of linear time. Titles from the early 2000s share more than just surface-level elements with modern releases, continuing to sell...
