Game Reviews

Mixing and matching genres in video games is always an exciting notion, often creating innovative experiences that stand out amongst their competitors. You have the likes of Portal that mixes FPS-type gameplay with puzzles and platforming, and most famously, Nier Automata, which combines hack and slash and shoot-em-up play styles.

Romancing Saga 2’s Revenge of the 7 remake is a rare gift to JRPG fans. The revival of an old classic from the Super Famicom days, it maximizes the strengths of old roleplaying games while reinvigorating them with its own twists and energy. The new elements build on the

I’m starting to think this Weyland Yutani group doesn’t have humanity’s best interests in mind. Call me crazy, but they also don’t seem to be very good engineers. Their ships seem to fall out of the skies, crash landing onto remote stations where they’re doing

I can’t play the trombone in real life, nor can I say that I’ve ever really felt the need to, but you can bet that I was excited to step onto the VR stage like a trombone master in Trombone Champ: Unflattened to perform for my sometimes delighted,

Spirit Mancer is the latest 2D hack-and-slash adventure to come out. Inspired by the likes of Megaman and Pokémon, this indie game is all about slicing through hordes of demons or capturing them and using their abilities to your advantage. Spirit Mancer is a difficult game to discuss because of

Tycoon games on the PC in the ’90s were everywhere. Hasbro Interactive and Atari pumped these games out like nobody’s business. If you were looking for business or management simulation games in the late 90s, Roller Coaster Tycoon gave you a creative twist that others couldn’t compete with.

When John Carmack left id Studios to work at Meta (then Facebook), he clearly stated that he had a target in mind – he wanted to make a wireless headset that was affordable and powerful. It has been a long road, and Carmack has since left the company, but he might

The fate of the Mario & Luigi series was uncertain for quite a while after the closure of developer Alpha Dream in 2019. Much like the Paper Mario series, I enjoyed the first three titles to varying degrees, then felt they became boring and more of a formality than anything,