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Within The Cosmos Release Date Revealed

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the upcoming first-person, single-player RPG, Within the Cosmos. I was intrigued due to the Deus Ex vibes dripping from it, and I wasn’t the only one. Now, Indie developer debdev has given the release date…

EA announced F1 25, with a few major updates

“New Year, new me,” they say. However, as usual, it is: New Year, and the same people online complaining about yearly releases being similar while expecting a team stretched thinner than their dad in the back of a Honda Civic to pull…

Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii (PS5) Review

At this point, if Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio tossed Like a Dragon (Yakuza) characters into a puzzle game or a hidden object game, I’d probably play it. While Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is neither of those genres, it does…

MLB The Show 25 (Xbox Series X) Review

MLB The Show is one of the most in-depth, captivating sports games on the market. Sony’s San Diego Studio has mastered the art of presenting a realistic baseball sim for years now, but that comes with challenges. Every annual sports franchise battles…

Blizzard Addresses WoW DDoS Attacks

Blizzard Entertainment has once again found itself in a sticky situation. For the past few weeks, Blizzard’s game servers have been bombarded by frequent, severe Distributed-Denial-of-Service (“DDoS”) attacks. These attacks overload the game servers with huge amounts of illegitimate traffic, which means…

Sin Slayers (PC) Review

There’s an elephant in the room that I want to address right up front. Sin Slayers, as it originally existed when I received a review key for it years ago, appears to have since been removed from sale on Steam. The developer…

Spilled! (PC) Review

Eco-conservation themes aren’t new in gaming. Truthfully, Final Fantasy VII puts “Save the Planet” in big lights hanging over the party’s head for 100+ hours, and that’s just the original release. Spilled! is a more low-key affair, a simple experience based on…

Call of Boba (PC) Early Access Review

A standout in recent Wholesome Directs for me has been Call of Boba, an inescapably-adorable pixel-art shop management game that not only looks cute as a button but is quite deep with tons of mechanics. Beyond running a bubble tea store, the title incorporates…

Wolfenstein: Youngblood (PC) Review

Second Wind’s Yahtzee Croshaw once said, “Nazis are like Skittles in that you can rid the world of as many as you like and never get a bad taste in your mouth.” Yahtzee is absolutely right about that, which is why I’m…

Atomfall (PC) – Review

By the 60s, the UK was returning to a decent economy with low unemployment, and Atomfall’s alt-history proposed a somewhat similar time frame. However, the fire at the Windscale nuclear power plant in 1957 seemed to be a bit of a setback;…