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It’s like Dirty Dancing, without the dirty. Busting into a club, gravitating towards unsuspecting victims, activating your groove, and encouraging them to join your dance line. It’s not something that always works in the real world (trust me, I’ve tried), but in Conga Master Party! you are the dance commander...
Earth Atlantis
Publisher Headup Games have discovered yet another potentially amazing game that might be worth your attention. Developed by the relatively new developer, Pixel Perfex, Earth Atlantis is fun, side-scrolling shooter available on the Nintendo Switch. With an eye-catching art style, fast gameplay, and a unique nautical theme, Earth Atlantis could...
Is there anything more maligned than the video game based on a movie? Sure, there have been a few here and there that were actually good but that result is seemingly the exception rather than the rule. WayForward are the latest to take a stab at turning a movie into...
When MachineGames went back to Wolfenstein with The New Order back in 2014, they did the first-person shooter genre a great service. The follow-up DLC, The Old Blood, was a feather in their cap to celebrate their no-nonsense approach to shooting Nazis. Once more, this studio has struck Nazi gold...
The core Mario franchise has constantly defined and redefined video games. Super Mario Bros and Super Mario World built and perfected the 2D platformer, with Mario World continuing to be the benchmark of quality over 25 years later. Mario 64 established the qualities necessary in a 3D platformer equally strongly,...
If you’ve daydreamed about having the powers of a superhero while also being shouldered with the terrible burden those same powers bring, then Megaton Rainfall may be perfect for you. This PSVR/PS4 title from Pentadimensional Games gives you godlike abilities that can very easily kill hundreds or thousands of innocent...
Nights of Azure made its debut last year that had us noting its lack of customization and variability, but praising its concise, straightforward, and accessible structure that doesn’t make you feel as if you owe it 100+ hours. You can check out the full review for it here. A year...
88 Heroes
When you think of 80’s gaming you probably think of platforming, pixels, and superheroes. Video games were cashing in on colorful heroes to star in their games, and here we are, almost 40 years later with a new title that gives us everything we remember from the arcade days in...
Back in the 90s, games were games. We didn’t need 1080p, 60 FPS, flimity-flamity – we had pixels and by God, we liked it. Games were simpler but they were fun. Take RollerCoaster Tycoon – we kids would gather around the old Personal Computer and have a ball, just laying...
Echo
When Half-Life 2 came out, the new AI being able to actually circle around and break through doors to get to you was the wave of the future. Smart enemies who had the power to hunt you down became more and more present in modern gaming, and while guards in...
WWE 2K18
The motto of World Wrestling Entertainment is “Then, Now, Forever.” It’s something wrestling fans read before every WWE television show, be it on the WWE Network or on normal TV. The slogan is supposed to symbolize the history and legacy of the storied wrestling promotion, but in turn, these words...
From its very first moment, Gran Turismo Sport floods the player with a melancholic symphony of sound and picture that takes you back to the racing days of old. I say racing because that’s what it’s all about, not merely waltzing past mistake-prone AI on a quest to attain the...
