Spooktober 2025: The Alters and Deadline Dread

Released earlier this year, The Alters is an intriguing game. Part exploration/discovery, part survival, part base-builder, it puts players in the shoes of a “lone wanderer” of a different sort. Admittedly, it pushes the boundaries of Spooktober, as it’s not particular scary. Or…is it? Being stranded alone on an alien world could be considered quite…

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Pokemon Legends Z-A Is Looking Rough, and It Really Shouldn’t

I’ve long been of the opinion graphics don’t really matter, certainly not of much as they used to. You could have the most realistic or high fidelity game ever made and it’d still be garbage if the gameplay is no good (see: The Callisto Protocol). However, this isn’t to say that visuals don’t matter at…

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Spooktober: The Many Traumas of Outer Wilds

Outer Wilds is a fantastic game where you discover the mysteries of your galaxy, while a supernova occurs every 22 minutes.  (And time travel is involved or else it would be a very short game indeed).  Nothing else can truly compare, making this one of my favorite games of all time.  There’s just one teensy,…

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Spooktober 2025: The Terrifying Brilliance of RE7’s Video Tapes

It might be because I’ve been playing and discussing games for so long now, but I find myself wandering back to the same games every time the spooky season rolls around. I play new stuff constantly, horror games included, but I suppose it just takes a lot for something to really stick now. Anyway, I…

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Spooktober 2025: Resonance – Moondrop

In the not-too-distant past, I completed my first ever FNAF game: Security Breach, and its DLC, Ruin. While probably not the best entry points for the series as far as understanding its lore and characters goes, I found the experience to be mostly enjoyable and suitably weird and creepy. I was surprised by jump scares…

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Xbox Hardware Mostly Unavailable in Europe

In a past news post, I speculated that Microsoft secretly wants out of the console business and is purposely driving customers away from Xbox in order to make the move less messy. It’s only my pet theory, but I think it’d go a long way towards explaning the baffling string of decisions made regarding the…

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Spooktober: Just How Far Will the Aberrations in Dredge Spread?

Whereas some horror games have you getting chased by terrifying monstrosities that scream and moan as they shuffle or outright bolt after you, the horror of Dredge is far more understated.  In fact, the game could almost appear relaxing on the surface.  You play as a new fisherman who just moved to the island of…

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