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Yoku’s Island Express: A Pinball-Metroidvania Adventure

Yoku’s Island Express is an interesting combination of pinball and Metroidvania, and it’s one of those weird ideas that works way better than I ever would have expected.  You play as a dung beetle named Yoku, who was just recently hired as the new postmaster of Mokumana Island. The game features a very pleasant art…

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Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is an Absolute Blast…With Friends

As much as I love Elden Ring and games featuring difficult boss fights, I’ve never really been so into difficult fights that I’ve been willing to take on the stuff Team Ninja makes. That studio tends to take things a bit too far as far as I’m concerned. So, I wasn’t really planning on picking…

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Top 5: The Grind to Unwind

When it comes to most games that don’t involve action sports, “grind” is typically a bad word. It means that players will have to spend hours upon hours slogging away at routine tasks and combat to obtain necessary (and sometimes unnecessary) levels and gear to progress. It can also be applied to the act of…

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Forspoken SteelBooks Found In the Dump

I suppose this isn’t exactly breaking news, but I still find it interesting because of just how much Sony and Square Enix were banking on Forspoken’s success. It was supposed to be one of the PlayStation 5’s killer apps, with all kinds of resources thrown into its development and promotion, and somehow this is still…

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I and Me: Demo Review

I and Me is an obscure puzzle game for which I could find very little information.  You control two cats who move in unison with each other, and the goal is to figure out how to get both of them into these…boxes?  Picture frames?  Playing demos has exposed me to games of a wide range…

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Atomic Heart is Flawed But Fun

I got pretty excited for Atomic Heart almost as soon as I heard about it back in 2017. I was already a big fan of games like Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Prey (2017) and BioShock, so a new game in a similar vein was a slam dunk for me. I didn’t think I’d have to…

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Survival of the Somewhat Competent

When Valheim was first released in early access on PC early 2021, it took over my news feed for several weeks. A number of bloggers I followed jumped on Valheim and seem to take to it very quickly and very positively. Like any new live-service game, it apparently came with its share of issues, but…

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Hunt: Showdown is Getting an Engine Upgrade

Once an online game hits the five year mark, it’s usually either run its course or has just settled into a regular content schedule with no more earth-shaking changes planned. There are exceptions like Warframe of course, and now it seems Hunt: Showdown is one too. In fact, according to PC Gamer, the grim battle…

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