It’s holiday 2018, and everyone is excitedly rushing to stores for Black Friday sales — the largest shopping day of the year. More money changes hands on this day than any other, making it the perfect vector to deploy a terrible virus. The Green Poison devastated New York, causing The
Let’s face it, spring doesn’t begin until baseball season is underway, or the release of one of PlayStation’s most prized franchises: MLB The Show 20. As a baseball fanatic, I grew up playing MLB The Show way back in 2006. And here we are, commemorating fifteen years
In 1694, Dandara was an Afro-Brazilian warrior who fought against slavery in Palmares. Not much is known about her life, but she is described as a hero and committed suicide after being arrested. In 2020, Dandara: Trials of Fear Edition is a game inspired by her life. I think it’
I remember hanging out with my grandmother one weekend in 2006, after we got lunch she surprised me with a copy of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team on the DS. It’s a memory that, strangely, sticks firmly in my mind. I remember starting it up on the car
I played the original Nioh when it first launched back in 2017. I enjoyed it well enough, but I remember wishing it was more on the difficult side. Too many bosses were humans that were too easy to kill, and most of the normal Yokai enemies didn’t put up
Afterparty is a game I really want to like. It follows two recently deceased college graduates, Lola and Milo, as they attempt to out party Satan, get out of Hell, and maybe find out why they’re there in the first place. It’s a great setup! And, coming from
Arise: A Simple Story is so much more than the title implies, because nothing about life is simple. It’s a story about human nature, memories, and feeling a connection to those memories. Through the different chapters that act as the protagonist’s memories, you will feel an emotional pull
I’ve noticed an intriguing trend in fighting game design recently: accessibility. In my opinion, fighting games have never been about who can perform complex inputs like pretzel motions or half-circles the fastest; they’re about reading what your opponent is about to do next and countering that. The genre
