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Rauniot (PC) – Review

Following in the footsteps of the great Finnish developers such as Taneli Armanto for Nokia, Sampo Karjalainen and Aapo Kyrölä on Habbo Hotel, and Karoliina Korppoo as well as everyone at Colossal Order, Act Normal Games brings another delightfully depressing Finnish game, Rauniot. A…

The Paleontologist (Book) Review

It’s not often that I’ll read recent releases that I’ve never heard about beforehand. The Paleontologist is one such book I saw randomly on a shelf at Barnes and Noble and decided to give it a shot. Written by Luke Dumas, The…

ArcRunner (PS5) Review

The majority of my time with roguelites is spent with hidden gems on Steam that are the result of tons of hours searching high and low. So it’s a departure to see a game from this platform make enough of a splash…

WWE Backlash: France 2024 Review

With such a large output of paid live events, WWE has a tall task in ensuring their big events don’t become oversaturated. Aside from the “big four” of Wrestlemania, Royal Rumble, Survivor Series, and Summerslam, the tertiary events are challenging to get…

Comic Book Corner: Radiant Black

Despite the overabundance of superhero books, I do enjoy the genre quite a bit from time to time. I’m especially fond of hero stories not set within the cluttered multiverses of Marvel and DC. It’s great to see characters that have the…

Star Trek: Picard “Et in Arcadia Ego” – Review

So Picard is dead and Evil Spock disappears. That’s the entertaining, satisfying narrative that has been broken up into 10 episodes (9 stories). Let’s get the convoluted mess of credits out of the way, Akiva Goldsman directs both parts of “Et in…

10 Underrated Films of the 2010s

As I have gotten older, I have come to appreciate films and the film industry more and more. While we are blessed every year to have highly anticipated and extremely artistic films, there are always films that get left behind in the…

Rogue Lords (PC) Review

If The Charlie Daniels Band is to be believed, the Devil accepts defeat with humility when he goes down to Georgia and loses a fiddle contest. Would that same thing be true if the Devil stood to lose something much more valuable…

Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator (PC) Review

As the former MythBuster Adam Savage once said, “The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.” 2022’s Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator, is a simulator title in which players are encouraged to screw around and (sometimes) write down their…

Planet Zoo: Console Edition (Xbox Series X) Review

Planet Zoo launched in 2019 for PC – to a joyous player base eager to hop back into a proper zoo sim for the first time since the 2000s. Developer Frontier Developments had previously translated the PC version of their other sim title,…