What comes to mind when I initially saw 90’s Japanese manga icon Shinnosuke Nohara, plastered on a cozy life sim game was the infestation of movie-to-video game adaptations in the game market. From Finding Nemo on PS2, to Harry Potter on the DS, I was skeptical that Shin chan
I’m going to be honest, getting under a mask is a tough ordeal. Not just for Batman, who more or less lives under one, but for me, who doesn’t always prefer to put a VR headset on. I love the idea of VR, but to wear a screen
Shure is already well known for a line of microphones that are reliable for podcasts and professional recording, but one doesn’t always need the bells and whistles of the MV7, or have the $250 to invest in recording hardware. Enter the MV6, a $149 option that will more than
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Sonic is healing. Sonic Frontiers shifted the series away from a relatively stagnant decade of games concerned more with recapturing glory days than creating new ones. While it still kept one foot stuck in the past, the other took a solid step towards the future The next step comes
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed is not what I expected. I fully admit that is my issue, as 30+ years of TMNT games have conditioned me to expect beat ‘em ups, which is not a good summary of Mutants Unleashed, despite having a decent amount of combat. Instead, what
The team at Piranha Games knows mech combat. Mechwarrior Online has been going strong since 2013, and they successfully rebooted the single-player experience with MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries. We enjoyed it quite a bit, with the only real gap being the thinner storyline. Six expansions built on the fantastic foundation they’
Introduction to the World of Frostpunk
Frostpunk: The Video Game sports a steampunk coat of paint, the stylish, often meaningless brass cogs and aviator goggles, but the real hook was “global warming in reverse.” It’s a satire equipped with the macabre comedy of that old Robert Frost poem:
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Halloween is nearly upon us and what better way to celebrate the macabre than to take the reins of two of horror’s most iconic characters in the bloody and challenging 16-bit inspired platformers RetroRealms: Halloween and RetroRealms: Ash vs. Evil Dead? Two games which, while similar in structure, manage
