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Riot is swinging for the fences these days. While Arcane is impeccable, and Ruined King a worthwhile RPG worthy of your time. Hextech Mayhem is an enjoyable slice of platforming when you want to turn your brain off and test out how well you can time a beat.
Beyond Blue
If you’ve ever wondered and wanted to learn more about the world under the sea, E-Line Media has you covered. In collaboration with BBC Studios, Blue Planet II, Beyond Blue allows you to explore the depths of the ocean to learn more about sea life in this soothing, relaxing, and...
White Shadows
Certain games strive to do more than simply entertain. Some look to tell an emotional story, while others may try to communicate a politically charged message. Whether implicit or explicit, societal themes are becoming more prominent in video games. White Shadows has straightforward subject matter that permeates throughout but will...
Halo Infinite
Halo fans, myself included, have eagerly and sometimes impatiently awaited the arrival of Halo Infinite. 343 have finally delivered the follow-up to Halo 5: Guardians more than six years later. At this point, many are relatively aware of the immense, time-consuming challenges development studios face when creating massive AAA projects....
I’ve never seen a single episode of any Gundam show. I’ve also never seen a Code Geass. And when I saw a game called Super Robot Wars 30, I worried that I’d have to catch up on the previous 29 games. Turns out, that’s not the case. Super Robot Wars...
Encodya
There are a great selection of point-and-click adventures with fantastic stories on the market, and now, Chaosmonger Studio’s ENCODYA is reaching out to widen audiences with its release on console. Originally released back in January 2021 on PC, players will be whisked away on a cyberpunk-themed journey on the PS4/PS5,...
As I sit to write the review for Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – Definitive Edition (GTA: DE), I can’t help but be reminded of Vito Corleone, lamenting over the massacre of his boy in Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Godfather.’ I think many like-minded 30-somethings that grew up with Grand...
If you believe the intros to their reviews, most of the folks who have been looking at Just Dance 2022 are sedentary endomorphs with multiple left feet, a disinclination for rhythm, and a peculiar unfamiliarity with contemporary pop music. Well, far be it from me to buck the trend. Consider...
Quick, name five really great recent mystery video games. Sure, there are a few, but chances are you ran dry pretty quickly after The Vanishing of Ethan Carter and maybe Wolf Among Us. Maybe you also listed Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments, one of Frogware’s better games about the legendary...
My favorite building sim of all time was, and remains, Frontier’s Planet Coaster. It’s a colorful, easy to get into theme park sim that is both immediately rewarding and infinitely deep. When the folks at Frontier announced Planet Zoo I was beyond thrilled, but ultimately disappointed in the final product...
The feeling of true speed is something video games often get wrong. 200 mph should feel completely unhinged. As though every minor correction to your path is riskier than jumping out of a plane without a parachute. Forza Horizon 5 absolutely nails that feeling.
Riders Republic is a sprawling, messy, open world playground, an extreme sports game for the TikTok generation, incredibly ambitious, audacious and pure, fast, fantasy fun. Riders Republic is a land of youthful bodies that can never break, endless trails, perfect powder and energy drink-stoked good times. But will the fun...
