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Game Reviews
Rise of the Ronin reinvents hack-and-slash in a remarkable open-world Japan
Stalking through the neglected ruins of an empty graveyard, I crouched through a hole in a wall with my katana…
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The Ghostbusters franchise isn’t aimed at anyone or anything anymore
It isn’t really clear who the Ghostbusters franchise is for anymore. In Jason Reitman’s 2021 sequel/reboot, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, it seemed…
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I played 43 psychedelic Jeff Minter games in a row and now my brain is a puddle
Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story is a fascinating “interactive documentary” from Digital Eclipse, which previously applied the same format to…
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3 Body Problem is the kind of TV epic we need
When Game of Thrones ended in May 2019, the hunt was well underway for a series that could match its…
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Star Wars: Unlimited is a force to be reckoned with in a resurgent TCG landscape
My biggest beef with trading card games, a genre now in its fourth decade of existence, is just how hard…
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The Divinity tabletop game is perfect for the most chaotic Baldur’s Gate 3 fans
Before it set the role-playing world ablaze with Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian Studios sent a considerably smaller, but still sizable,…
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Balatro cast a magic spell that made me like math
I’m not a poker guy, but I am definitely a Balatro guy now. Created by an anonymous developer who goes…
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The Thaumaturge is ambitious, compelling, and just a bit janky
The Thaumaturge exists in an alternate 1905 Warsaw, where I can’t go anywhere without a couple of soldiers trying to…
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