Listmas 2024: Even Scrooges Need Christmas Cheer

We’ve already covered our favorite allies and most memorable gaming friendships and family relationships.  So now let’s look at the other end of the moral spectrum.  Because you can’t really have a good adventure without some villains causing the main conflict.  These guys might be on Santa’s naughty list, but that doesn’t mean they can’t…

Listmas 2024: Friends and Family Are the Greatest Gift of All

The one thing more important than gifts and good food during the Christmas season (as much fun as they are) is having friends and family to share the holidays with.  (After all, who else is going to give you those presents, ha ha!)  So it’s about time we listed some of the gaming relationships that…

PS Plus Extra May Get Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

One of the areas where Sony’s new subscription service completely fails to measure up to Game Pass is in major first-party exclusives. For years now, Microsoft has been offering access to their biggest, most exciting titles Day One through their service, and that’s absolutely a major draw to the service. While Sony is offering many…

Song of the Deep: An Undersea Metroidvania

Song of the Deep had been on my radar for a long time, largely because it was made by Insomniac, the creators of one of my favorite gaming franchises, Ratchet & Clank.  The game is an underwater Metroidvania where you control a submarine built by a girl named Merryn who makes it her goal to…

Tricks, Treats, and Feats: Dragon Shores

The PS1/PS2 era Insomniac Games really knew how to do bonuses right. They included whole spaces for cut-content in the Ratchet & Clank games, hid demos for Crash Bandicoot in their Spyro games, and the reward for completing those Spyro games was always a special world for their most dedicated players to enjoy. “Dragon Shores”…