Hatmonster’s 2023 GotY: BG3 and…

I’ve been hearing a lot of talk recently calling 2023 one of the best years in gaming. To be completely honest, I don’t see it. I mean, yeah, a lot of pretty good stuff came out this year, but I feel as though very little of it was actually memorable or impactful. In my case,…

Listmas 2023: Gaming Gifts for Sci-Fi Nerds

As Cary pointed out in our official kick-off to the season, Listmas time is here again already! It doesn’t matter how old you get, the fact that December can just one day arrive is always just such a wild phenomenon, I think. Anyway, we are indeed carrying on the Listmas tradition in this year of…

Playing to Get Better

As much as I’ve enjoyed games over the course of my life, I don’t think I’ve ever considered myself a “hardcore” gamer. They’re fun, and sometimes it’s fun to do everything or try to get a little better at something like Halo multiplayer. It’s also nice to talk about games like this too. Is that…

Returnal is Great, But It May Too Old School for Its Own Good

During the Christmas season, I had the incredible good fortune of obtaining the ever-elusive PlayStation 5, and immediately dove into a game that’d been on my mind ever since it released: Returnal. As you might’ve heard (and I quickly discovered), Returnal is decidedly not an easy game. It gameplay is wonderfully fast and fluid, but…

Returnal on PC Will Require 32GB of RAM, Won’t Feature Crossplatform Play

It’s amazing how quickly technology advances, isn’t it? Yesterday’s high-end is today’s bare-minimum, and so shall it ever be. See, this is why PC, despite being the superior platform in many cases, still doesn’t enjoy as much popularity as the console market. It’s not enough to have a PC, you gotta continually upgrade and replace…