The Surge was one of the major surprise hits for me in 2017. Unique, addictive, and challenging as hell, this was a title I found myself still playing long after my review went live. With the game’s first major piece of DLC, A Walk in the Park, Deck 13

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is the fourth and penultimate game created by Japanese mobile developer DeNA in partnership with Nintendo. It follows Miitomo, Super Mario Run, and Fire Emblem Heroes, games that were critically–if not financially–successful (Super Mario run has been downloaded over 200 million times, but did

(Contains minor spoilers from volume 9) Like a lot of Shonen Jump fans, My Hero Academia is one of my favorite manga currently running. As I’ve started collecting comics since 2015, I’ve grown to love the dynamics of superheroes and what makes them likeable. My Hero Academia manages

Shooters aren’t exactly a fresh and new idea for VR headsets, but I’m shocked at the lack of westerns on the platform. Virtual Reality and gunplay goes together like peanut butter and jelly, so where’s my virtual Red Dead Revolver? Developer Octobox Interactive makes their VR gaming

Monopoly has been around for over 80 years. For many, myself included, the goal of the game is less to win and more to cause chaos by preventing the other players from purchasing any of the key properties they need to build their houses. Just as Monopoly is guaranteed to

I’ve been a Gunnar devotee since I first laid eyes on them in 2014. As I said in my review at that time, their lightweight frames and blue light-blocking technologies made my eyes feel better after long gaming sessions. The only real hitch was that the prices were a

Happy Salmon is the kind of perfection that defies typical analysis. My reviews usually focus on the nuance of a game; how its mechanisms translate the emotional weight of its theme, draw people out to explore their psyches, or just help facilitate a good time. Happy Salmon does all of

Picture, if you will, a GameStop branch in the summer of 2012. Business is slow, as it’s the dead season for game releases, and a bored employee sits behind the counter as 2 high-school students browse the selection. Happening upon a lone copy of a Wii game he’d