Tag: video games

Happy Spooktober!

If it’s October (and, hey, it is!), then that means only one thing around these parts…it’s Spooktober! If the name didn’t give it away, Spooktober is our annual celebration in October of all things scary in games. In past years, we’ve themed our Spooktober event, but not this year. This year, we’re presenting a more…

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Q Remastered: Demo Review

Q Remastered is a unique puzzle game that allows you to draw various shapes that fall to the ground due to the forces of gravity.  Although it seems like there’s very little you can do with such a feature, this brief demo of 10 stages had an interesting variety of puzzles to solve.  At first,…

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The Worst Kept Secret in Conker’s Bad Fur Day

In the pantheon of 3D platformers, Rare’s Conker’s Bad Fur Day is a bit of an outlier. It has the bones of an exploration game with the muscle of a puzzle-platformer and the brains of an action-platformer. But its most noticeable departure from tradition has to do with collecting. Unlike its most comparable titles (Banjo-Kazooie,…

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Barely Scratching the Surface of Undertale Easter Eggs

Undertale was groundbreaking in its time.  A game that broke the mold, where you had the potential to spare every enemy instead of fighting them.  Filled with lovable characters that you may or may not have chosen to massacre depending on the route you were taking, this game also boasted a jarring mix of quirky…

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That Which is Hiding in the Hidden History of Santo Ileso

The 2022 Saints’ Row reboot may have gone over the gaming community like a lead balloon, but I had a decent time with it. There was plenty wrong with the game, but one thing that Deep Silver Volition (RIP) got right was the game’s setting, the wild and wonderful world of Santo Ileso, which was…

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Sneaky Secret Anomalous Rubber Duckies

Today’s Easter eggs cover multiple games, but a singular topic.  Ironically, said topic could even lay eggs.  Because I’m talking about ducks.  Or more specifically, rubber ducks (okay, okay, so I suppose those can’t lay eggs…).  These Duck of Indeed-approved bath toys are cute and silly and can actually be found in a handful of…

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