Tag: gaming

Rethinking Rougelikes

About a million years ago, I played (and maybe you did, too) the game from whence all current roguelikes and roguelites were born: Rogue. Apt title, right? Originally a DOS game, Rogue was a procedurally generated dungeon crawler where no two runs were ever alike. Each run began with a blank screen, a single character…

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Xbox Might Add Another Tier to Game Pass

It’s hard to tell what exactly the game plan is with Xbox. For the past few years, it seemed as though it was looking to exit the console space entirely, especially with the “Everything is an Xbox” campaign they were running last year. Yet, now that campaign has been very quickly and quietly retired with…

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Crimson Desert is Neither the Best Game Ever Nor the Worst

I touched on this topic once already in my post about the discourse surrounding Marathon recently, but I couldn’t help be revisit it after seeing how people have been talking about Crimson Desert. As far as I can tell, there’s no reason for discussion about this game be anything but civil. In fact, I’d say…

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A Dearth of Good Game Writing?

Crimson Desert was decently prominent among my most anticipated games of the year, but, at best, it was a wait and see” prospect. Now it’s out, along with a plethora of initial reviews, I am glad I didn’t jump on it in a fit of FOMO. Word is that Crimson Desert is, to turn a…

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Sony Likely Won’t Have a PC Launcher (Thankfully)

Between Sony’s decision to rebrand PlayStation Network (PSN) into, uh, something else later this year and the statements its been making regarding PC as a platform, there hasn’t been a lot for fans to celebrate this year. One thing that likely will be nice, though, is that Sony doesn’t appear to be interested in making…

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Bethesda’s Time in the Sun Might Be Over

With Bethesda now going about crowing over its latest re-release, this time the PS5 port of Starfield, I found myself thinking about just how different this company and its games are compared to its Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Skyrim era. In pure dollars and cents, Bethesda is bigger and enjoying more success than ever before,…

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MIO: Memories in Orbit First Impressions

Back in January, I listed MIO: Memories in Orbit as one of my most anticipated games of the year, and it one that I thought I’d have to buy. Color me surprised when it popped up on Game Pass upon release! With a winter plate too full of games, spring has arrived, and MIO’s time…

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