Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks in Street Fighter 6’s World Tour

If a time traveler were to have appeared in my living room circa 1993 as I was gleefully mashing my way through Street Fighter II Turbo and told me that, in 30 years, I’d get to create and customize my very own fighter and play in a world crafted around Street Fighter lore…I…I don’t know…

Xbox, PlayStation Sign a Call of Duty Deal

It looks like the acquisition of Activision-Blizzard by Microsoft will indeed be happening at some point. The deal took a major step forward this week thanks to a new deal between PlayStation and Xbox regarding Call of Duty. The long and short of it is this: Call of Duty will (for at least a while)…

Ranking the Spirits from Spiritfarer

Spiritfarer is a “cozy management game about dying” where you’ll be ferrying the spirits of the dead to the afterlife.  As such, I formed a very different sort of relationship to these characters than I would in a regular game, and on the most part, knowing that a character is soon to pass on helps…

Yoshi’s Crafted World: Demo Review

Having never played Yoshi’s Wooly World, I was at least given a chance to play a small portion of the game’s successor, Yoshi’s Crafted World, thanks to a short demo available on the Switch.  One of the biggest features that stand out with both games is the unique aesthetic.  Where the former took place in…

Final Fantasy XVI is Kind of Incredible!

Though I’ve played a handful of Final Fantasy games over the years, I’m not sure that I can call myself a Final Fantasy fan per se. Fans, I feel, are more dedicated and more passionate in their feelings regarding their favorite series, I think. Still, perhaps I can at least call myself an “enjoyer” of…

Going with the Flow in Tears of the Kingdom

Since picking up The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom at release I have been making my way through it ever so slowly. My opinion of it so far stands with what others have already said, like my cohort, The Duck of Indeed. My quick review at this point (main story-wise, I’ve so far…

PUBG is Getting New Arcade Mode, Compares It to CS:GO

As those who’ve been in the gaming scene for a while know, before Fortnite launched the battle royale craze that once threatened to consume the entire FPS genre, there was PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). There was also DayZ: King of the Kill before that, but it was PUBG that primed the addicting format for Fortnite’s mainstream…

Spiritfarer: A Poignant Game About Death…and Appreciating Life

Described by the developer as a “cozy management game about dying”, Spritfarer follows the story of Stella, who has been tasked with ferrying the spirits of the dead to the afterlife.  Joined by her trusty cat Daffodil, Stella will be sailing about the ocean, looking for spirits and caring for them until they’re ready to…