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Death Stranding
After a long and very confusing marketing campaign, Death Stranding is finally in the world’s hands. It marks the first game Hideo Kojima has helped to make under the ugly divorce from Konami and the founding of Kojima Productions. It boasts some big names, wild concepts and quite a big...
Planet Zoo
Planet Zoo is a zoo management simulation game developed and published by Frontier. Similarly to the way Planet Coaster is a spiritual successor to Rollercoaster Tycoon, Planet Zoo is a spiritual successor to the Zoo Tycoon games first released in the early 2000s. Bringing together gameplay elements from both franchises,...
Nowadays, a tie-in game usually alludes to a mediocre experience all round. After years of bad tie-in games based off everything to make its way out of a cinema, it’s hard to imagine that a video game based off a movie could be good. Back in the day though, Disney...
It took me around 26 hours to finish Chapter 1 of The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III. That’s this review in a nutshell. I completed every sidequest I could find, I beat every boss, and I watched every cutscene. 26 hours. Chapter 1.
The fire flower is lit, and the flickies are soaring through the air, which can only mean one thing, that Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 is officially underway! This latest entry is the sixth game in the crossover series, so surely they’ve got the winning formula...
When I noticed Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD at PAX this year, I was cautiously curious. I’ve never played a Super Monkey Ball game. Not with good reason either, it’s just not something that ever really crossed my mind. The series never appeared on my radar nor anyone else...
Luigi's Mansion 3
As a fan of the green younger Mario brother, I had a lot riding on Luigi’s Mansion 3. The original Luigi’s Mansion for the Gamecube is a very important game to me, and though that might seem weird, I’m not alone. It’s a beloved classic to its diehard fans, and...
WWE 2K20
It’s really hard being a WWE fan sometimes. Not just from the people who, to this day, still judge you a bit just for liking wrestling in the first place. The state of the current product is very strange, with the company flying its superstars over to Saudi Arabia twice a...
MediEvil
In the PlayStation 4’s near six year life span, there’s been quite a generous addition of both remasters and remakes. Remasters often look at furthering their audience, while remakes plan to do this and (hopefully) scratch that nostalgia itch. Like it or not, both definitely have their place. MediEvil, a...
It’s clear from looking at The Alliance Alive HD Remastered that it used to be a 3DS game. The chibi character design makes everyone look like toddlers with swords. There is no voice acting, even in pre-rendered subtitled scenes. Every menu and interface is too big. An effort was made...
The Outer Worlds is a corporate space-opera of witty proportions. Obsidian Entertainment introduces fans to a brand-new universe across several strange planets and vibrant characters. The first-person role-playing game aims to be much like prior efforts, yet with Private Division under the publishing helm. Leonard Boyarsky and Tim Cain are...
Destiny 2: Shadowkeep
I’ve been playing Destiny since the Alpha dropped back in 2014, since then my husband, friends and I have been avid fans. We’ve been there since the start and while being a Destiny fan comes with a love-hate relationship with the game you’d be hard pressed to find a player...
