Herdling is the Best Money I’ve Spent on a Game in a Long Time

Released earlier this year, Herdling, from Okomotive, is an adventure game unlike any other. In it, players take the reigns as young shepherd who finds and guides herd of “calicorns” — large, furry, sheep-like beasts – from the lowlands to the highlands, and beyond. The lone shepherd’s journey begins in a city with a magic…

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Night Machine Steam Demo is Live

It’s an unusually slow news week this week, so instead of discussing whatever shenanigans are going on in the AAA sector of gaming, I instead come to you with a bit of indie news. I just learned of a new roguelike deckbuilder, one that’s got a pretty intriguing hook. The game is Night Machine and…

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Theorizing Even More with the Newest FNAF 2 Movie Trailer

Just a month before its December 5th theatrical debut, another trailer for the Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 movie was released on November 5th, and let me tell you, I’m getting more and more excited by the day!  The movie is definitely going to be far more action-packed from what they’ve shown, and we also…

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Hollow Knight: Silksong Was Great, But I Prefer the Original After All

Like many fans of Hollow Knight, I spent the last several years eagerly awaiting the day that Team Cherry would finally release its sequel. I think I even reached a point where I told myself that I didn’t care anymore, after waiting 2-3 years without a single update from Team Cherry regarding Silksong’s progress. Yet,…

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Discovery Through Distraction

Last week saw the release of The Outer Worlds 2, and while I’m looking forward to diving into it soon, I’ve been playing Fallout 4…again. Alas, the call of the siren’s song (or, maybe that’s a settlement beacon) is strong sometimes! I didn’t go into a new playthrough with any grand designs, but I approached…

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Tim Cain Remarks on How Digital-Only Hasn’t Saved Gamers Any Money

Gaming has been around a long time, as have many of us who enjoy games as a proper hobby. We’ve a great many changes and shifts in the gaming market over our many years, but one of the most significant is one that has been nearly all-encompassing yet hasn’t delivered on the industry’s most important…

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Unravel 2’s Smooth Gameplay is Unravelled by a Weak Story

The original Unravel was a sweet and unique platformer where you play as a little creature named Yarny (made from yarn, as the name suggests) who can solve puzzles and traverse photo-realistic environments (spanning natural Swedish landscapes to industrial locations) using yarn.  You can swing from yarn, make bridges with yarn, and even make trampolines…

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Learning How to Play

I’ve been watching a channel on YouTube recently called SuperJoeBros. He focuses primarily on Donkey Kong games and has been doing a series where he plays through the SNES trilogy for the first time. It’s been fun to watch, but it was also a little frustrating at first. He’d make silly mistakes or have difficulty…

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