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Kingdom Hearts Integrum Masterpiece collection review on Steam — May your (Steam) Deck be your guiding key

The Kingdom Hearts series has been on PC for a few years now through the Epic Games Store. You can read that review here, but the gist is that they’

By David Flynn

/ 17 Jun 2024

Kingdom Hearts Integrum Masterpiece collection review on Steam — May your (Steam) Deck be your guiding key

Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn hands-on preview — Striking flint

Soulsy games are all the rage, eh? It feels like every game that looks neat is one, and most of them revel in killing me. Finding something unique and less…

By David Burdette

/ 17 Jun 2024

Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn hands-on preview — Striking flint

Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble hands-on preview – Rolling into a new adventure!

I remember playing Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz on the Nintendo Wii back in 2006, then played Step & Roll when the Wii Balance Board was gaining popularity. Then, we

By Adam Moreno

/ 17 Jun 2024

Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble hands-on preview – Rolling into a new adventure!

CBR + PNK Augmented Review — big ideas almost fit in this small package

Portable, stylish, and mostly comprehensible, CBR + PNK Augmented brings a lot to the table. This set of 12 pamphlets contains resources for rules, characters, adventures, NPCs, and setting options in

By John Farrell

/ 17 Jun 2024

CBR + PNK Augmented Review — big ideas almost fit in this small package

Shhhhh! — A Quiet Place gets a game adaption, coming later in 2024

If you needed another reason to keep quiet, this might not be a good one. Or maybe it will? In any case, A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead will arrive

By David Burdette

/ 17 Jun 2024

Shhhhh! — A Quiet Place gets a game adaption, coming later in 2024

We Interview: Executive Game Director Mark Rubin and Creative Director Safy Saada of XDefiant!

XDefiant is finally here, but the team isn’t slowing down. We posted our initial impressions of the pre-season, but Season 1 is right around the corner. We had the

By David Burdette

/ 16 Jun 2024

We Interview: Executive Game Director Mark Rubin and Creative Director Safy Saada of XDefiant!

Delta Force: Hawk Ops hands-on preview — Warfare from a bygone perspective

Making your mark in the shooter genre can be tough. There are a lot of them out there, and if you’re pushing into the MilSim sub-genre, you might struggle

By David Burdette

/ 14 Jun 2024

Delta Force: Hawk Ops hands-on preview — Warfare from a bygone perspective

Expeditions review – The sort of sequel to Scythe

The world of Scythe is intriguing. Mostly told through the rulebook of Scythe and most especially Jakub Rozalski’s art, it follows a bunch of leaders and heroes from various

By James van Tonningen

/ 14 Jun 2024

Expeditions review – The sort of sequel to Scythe

Hyper Light Breaker hands-on preview — extraction roguelike and real-life achievements

You need to take your wins where you can get them. Over the course of 22 years of playing video games as a member of the press and tackling unbalanced

By Ron Burke

/ 14 Jun 2024

Hyper Light Breaker hands-on preview — extraction roguelike and real-life achievements

Talisman 5th Edition and HeroQuest releases detailed by Avalon Hill

Talisman: The Magical Quest Board Game, 5th Edition Avalon Hill announced the release dates for Talisman: The Magical Quest Board Game, 5th Edition as available for pre-order now on Amazon

By Chris Wyman

/ 14 Jun 2024

Talisman 5th Edition and HeroQuest releases detailed by Avalon Hill

Blood & Plunder — Hoist the flag, rule the waves!

This is by far the most time I’ve spent analyzing and preparing a game for review. After a month of assembling, painting, reading, and finally playing Blood & Plunder

By Randy Gregory II

/ 14 Jun 2024

We Interview: Connor Dougan + Josh Looman (Creative Director + Lead Designer) about their work with Madden NFL 25 and Franchise Mode!

We once again had the chance to talk to Connor Dougan about Madden this year, a lot of the things we discussed in last year’s interview about Madden NFL

By Adam Moreno

/ 14 Jun 2024

We Interview: Connor Dougan + Josh Looman (Creative Director + Lead Designer) about their work with Madden NFL 25 and Franchise Mode!