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Raji: An Ancient Epic (PC) Review

Raji: An Ancient Epic is the highly enjoyable, deeply impressive first project by India-based developer Nodding Heads Games. It’s a rare thing for a game to grab my interest as swiftly and completely as Raji has. In fact, I might just have…

Electronic Arts Faces Canadian Class Action Suit

Electronic Arts and its Vancouver office Electronic Arts (Canada), are facing a new class action suit filed by a pair of plaintiffs. Mark Sutherland from British Columbia, and Shawn Moore from Ontario, filed their Notice of Civil Claim against the developer on…

Song of Horror (PC) Review

Song of Horror, by Spanish developer Protocol Games, follows Daniel Noyer, ex-entrepreneur, and now an employee of Wake Publishing. Noyer investigates a series of disappearances, starting with his employer’s client, prolific historical fiction writer Sebastian P. Husher. The story is quick to…

Lovecraft Country Episode 9 Review: “Rewind 1921”

Warning: This article contains discussion of racism, violence, homophobia, murder, child abuse, and death. Engaging with (and relating to) fantasy, science fiction, horror, and any combination of the above will often, if not always, require accepting some otherworldly or even outlandish logic.…

Blizzard Staff Called to Strike Over Versailles Closure

Earlier this month, Activision Blizzard Inc. communicated to employees working from their Versailles, France location that they would be closing the office, severing the U.S.-based game publisher’s last physical tie to France. The Versailles office has primarily been a hub for marketing,…

Runescape Arrives on Steam

It’s been one of those weeks where a Wednesday feels like a Friday, hasn’t it? Maybe it is just me, but RuneScape’s Steam release has added to the slightly surreal feeling that’s settled over just about everything, lately. The announcement of RuneScape…

Women and Queerness in Horror: Martyrs (2008)

Warning: This article contains discussion of racism, war, child abuse, abduction, torture, murder, mental illness, self-harm, suicide, gore, and spoilers for Martyrs. Boy, oh, boy am I glad you all are around to help me unpack this week’s pick so I can…

Lovecraft Country Episode 8 Review: “Jig-A-Bobo”

Warning: This article contains discussion of murder, child death, lynching, racism, police brutality, images of body horror, and spoilers for Lovecraft Country. This episode was … a lot. For the majority of its runtime, it was a lot in a good —…

Samudra Demo First Impressions

With Steam’s Autumn Edition Game Festival newly underway, I’ve found myself yet again in the delightful — if time-consuming — position of sifting through the widespread of new, long-awaited, and forthcoming games on offer for the gems among them. Enter Samudra, an…

Bargain (2020) Review

To the surprise of, I suspect, absolutely no one who’s been following my writing for a minute, October is my month. Sadly not my month of birth, but it’s my zone, my vibe — you get the idea. All this to say…