The switchable magnetic buttons are a cool but unessential gimmick on Glorious’ great, all-around performer Glorious already has an impressive lineup of gaming mice, between their $64.99 wired O 2 and their $99.99 O 2 ...
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Dead on Arrival With its stylized visuals, vivid colors, and spacious stages shown from a third-person perspective, Die After Sunset shares a passing resemblance to Fortnight. But any similarity is largely cosmetic. Barcelona-based Playstark has ...
Read More »New Releases: August 24th-30th 2023
This week, Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon (pictured) jump-jets toward release, Karateka gets a revival almost 40 years after its debut, while Blasphemous 2 provides players with another dose of bit-mapped artistry. Venture on, ...
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A mild advancement on the 1982 arcade game. There’s a possibility you might not have played 1982’s Quantum. Although the vector graphics-based title was included in Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration, the original cabinet had ...
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Slavic traditions elevates storytelling that occasionally flirts with convention. Ukraine-based Animagrad Animation’s sophomore effort opens with one of those visually stylized prologues meant to convey the charm of a fairy tale book. Voiceover details an ...
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Bigger isn’t always better 2013’s Hammerwatch was pretty much twin-stick-driven, dungeon-crawling perfection. Building on the basic blueprint of games like Gauntlet and Diablo, players used six traditional fantasy archetypes to eliminate enemies while amassing a ...
Read More »New Releases: August 17th-23rd, 2023
This week, WrestleQuest makes its arena entrance, Let’s Build a Zoo gets an aquarium add-on, while The Texas Chain Saw Massacre brutalizes players with asymmetrical confrontations. Alternatively, Clover Day’s Plus (pictured) offers the heartfelt tale ...
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The worst thing about Unidentified Falling Objects is the game’s title. About fifteen minutes into UFO: Unidentified Falling Objects I knew there was a problem. Most action-driven puzzle games are appealing. But the majority fall ...
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Garbage Can or Garbage Can’t? In PixelJunk Scrappers Deluxe, topsy-turvy dystopia, trash is a treasured resource. This abnormality happened after a rocket filled with waste was launched skyward. Instead of dropping its payload at an ...
Read More »White Album: Memories like Falling Snow review
Thinking being the boyfriend of an up-and-coming music idol is easy? Relationships are minor miracles White Album: Memories like Falling Snow reminds us. Susceptible to a myriad of misunderstandings and even misdeeds, moments of interpersonal ...
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