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I fell in love with the original Splitgate during a time I was yearning for a compelling FPS experience. Eventually, I grew bored of it and stopped playing, but Splitgate 2 was immediately on my radar. A sequel boasting technical improvements over the original game with the addition of highly-requested...
A post-apocalyptic world is a common setting for video games, and we’ve seen plenty of them with a fantasy or science fiction flavor. My favorite, however, is the present-day apocalypse, where something has gone terribly wrong, and it’s up to ordinary people to deal with it. You’ll need to wield...
I have some expectations when I look at something in Disney’s Tron universe. I expect blue and red light accents on the characters, a good electronica soundtrack, light cycles, disc throwing, and copious amounts of de-rezzing of characters as they struggle with the questions of individuality, choice, and purpose. Tron:...
I was admittedly skeptical when FBC: Firebreak was announced. It’s a pretty strong departure for Remedy Entertainment, a studio whose roots are firmly planted in cinematic, single-player games. With Firebreak aiming to put a co-op spin on the supernatural world of Control, I just wasn’t sure how they’d pull off...
Battle Train is certainly an exercise in mashing together some wild ideas. It's a strategy game with trains. It's a strategy game with trains that's played with cards. It's a deckbuilding strategy game with trains that's also presented like a wacky game show. Co-developers Terrible Posture Games and Nerd Ninjas...
What if you could live your life again but make a different decision at a pivotal moment that sets you on a new path? Who would you be? Would the resultant person still be you, or would that change have a butterfly effect so strong that you wouldn’t recognize yourself?...
When I first saw Date Everything, I was suspicious. There’s a trend in Western visual novels with a heavy lean toward parody or irony often flavored with a hubris or disrespect that borders on, at best, otherism. Games like Doki Doki Literature Club or the constant barrage of April Fools...
In case I didn’t make myself perfectly clear in the title and subheading of this review, let me do so now: Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour should have been a pack-in title. It would have been perfect. Much like Wii Sports, Welcome Tour’s minigames, while not as fun as boxing...
Nearly a decade after Clifftop Games launched their gritty, Twin Peaks-inspired detective game Kathy Rain, the punk detective is back for another, darker case in Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer. It's a classic point-and-click adventure game, but also a detective game more grounded in realism than the likes of Phoenix Wright....
Elden Ring Nightreign is a bizarre game. It’s the Majora’s Mask of the Soulsborne family, with a mix-up of locations and bosses from Elden Ring with some Dark Souls trilogy foes sprinkled in. It’s got battle royale elements and roguelite features. It’s fast paced and as brutally difficult as it...
Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo makes an absurdly powerful first impression. As the game loads, a 3D-modeled, handheld gaming console descends from the heavens, artificial light reflecting from the smudged plastic coating on its screen. The console twirls as a cartridge falls into the slot, then spins back to face...
To a T
Main characters in video games come in all sorts of different forms. They range from big burly warriors to captivating underdogs. The lead in To a T falls in the latter category, but this specific one serves as someone whose unique qualities make him an inspiration. Annapurna Interactive and Uvula...
