Listmas 2024: Customizing the Perfect Christmas Gathering

It’s time for our wildcard week, folks!  While the rest of the month was dedicated to relationships, I thought I’d focus more on our surroundings for this week’s post.  Because who doesn’t enjoy decorating their home for Christmas and getting it nice and festive in time for all your guests to arrive?  So today, I’m…

The Horror That Surrounds: The Dunes

With so many horror games revolving around abandoned buildings, spooky woods, and loads of dead things, it’s really refreshing when a horror game comes along that forgoes all of that.  Okay, okay, today’s subject is not technically a horror game, and yet I still find it to be a good deal more terrifying than most…

Do I Really Want to Play This?”

Late last week, after putting somewhere are around 40 hours into it, I finished the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC for Elden Ring. It truly was an exceptional addition complete with all frustration / elation that comes with fighting and (eventually) defeating its often ridiculously strong bosses. But, now it’s over and I’m once again…

The Duck’s Ten Best Games of the Last Ten Years

Ten years have gone by, and now it’s time to list the Duck’s ten very favorite games from the last decade, ranging from horror to Metroidvania to expansive adventure and platformer games.  The last decade saw the release of some pretty amazing games from well-known series, along with a whole bunch of amazing indie gems. …

Scariest Environments: Open Water and Outer Space

The Duck’s most dreaded environments are not of the traditional variety.  Sure, I love getting creeped out by a particularly decrepit abandoned asylum or jumping at the mysterious noises one might encounter in the deep, dark woods.  But there is something very important that these locations have in common that prevents them from being especially…

YouTube Highlights, Weekly Edition #216

Up this week: Song of the Deep – Merryn’s father is missing, and we have to help her find him in this metroid-vania adventure. The Shady Part of Me – in this puzzler, we take a surreal and emotional journey with a young girl and her shadow, and there are plenty of twists and turns…

Subnautica: A “Broken” Masterpiece

Always on the lookout for good sales on digital games, easily the best deal I ever got was when I downloaded Subnautica for free, thanks to PlayStation’s whole “Play at Home” program.  Having already seen Youtuber 8-BitRyan play the game online, I never really intended on playing Subnautica for myself, as awesome as it looked. …

YouTube Highlights, Weekly Edition #215

Up this week: The Shady Part of Me – in this puzzler, we take a surreal and emotional journey with a young girl and her shadow, and there are plenty of twists and turns along the way. Subnautica – what lies in what in this underwater adventure game? Let’s find out! Not Zangief – our occasional…

Goofing Off in Subnautica is Far Too Addicting

Subnautica is one of many games that I have heard good things about, but seeing as I had already watched a playthrough online, I saw no reason to play it for myself.  That all changed when I was perusing the PlayStation Store, only to notice that Subnautica was available for…free?  Was I seeing this right? …

YouTube Highlights, Weekly Edition #214

Up this week: Mega Man 11 (demo) – here we try out the latest Mega Man sequel, one with a new look but plenty of old school vibes. Minecraft (demo) – It’s Minecraft! You know it, you love, but will we? World of Final Fantasy (demo) – join us as we try out this oddly…