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Remedy Entertainment Purchases Control IP Rights

Control is one of my favorite games of all time. I could talk for hours about how Remedy Entertainment perfectly executed the worldbuilding and set up a world endlessly ripe for exploration in the future. To my excitement, the future seems bright…

Puzzle Quest 3 Heading to Consoles

It’s hard to break through the mobile game marketplace when there are hundreds of games released every day. Publisher 505 Games is a steady name in the space, however, thanks to massive franchises like Puzzle Quest. A mix of RPG elements and puzzle-matching…

Death Stranding Is Free On Epic

Monday, I spoke about Eurovision and maybe something about Doctor Who specials getting their titles. Tuesday, mech warfare continues as Hawken Reborn returned to PC recently. Wednesday, the second wave of Game Pass was unveiled for May, To the Rescue made its way to the kingdom (or platform) for which Zelda has…

Hawken Reborn Announced and Playable Quite Soon

2023 has been a stellar year with well-made re-imaginings of classic games. We’ve seen remakes such as Resident Evil 4 and Dead Space as well as incredible remasters with Metroid Prime Remastered and Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection. On the other…

Control 2 Officially Announced

Control was a well-met game when it was released back in 2019. It had all of the best elements that developer Remedy Entertainment is known for and a setting inspired by the likes of the SCP Foundation fiction project. Later DLCs would…

Death Stranding Coming to PC Game Pass

The Hideo Kojima gem Death Stranding is a divisive game. Some love it, some hate it, and now some people who haven’t previously gotten to play the game get a chance to do so thanks to PC Game Pass. The title did…

Eiyuden Chronicle Rising (PS5) Review

2020’s most highly funded Kickstarter excited me greatly. It was for a game called Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. It is inspired by games like Suikoden from the PS1 and PS2 eras and brings back mechanics close to my heart. While Hundred Heroes…

First Hour – Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising (Switch)

In this new format I’m trying out, I’m going to play exactly one hour (timed, of course) of games I’m starting. The purpose of this format is to give the first impression of said game. Later on, once I’ve finished a game,…

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Free On Epic

Monday, we covered that Road 96 will get a console release, WoW is finally moving on from the Shadowlands, and an action runner game gets its latest update. Tuesday, Team17’s Batora: Lost Haven will get a demo soon, Dying Light 2‘s first DLC arrived in decaying gory bits, and Children of Morta has online…

Death Stranding Director’s Cut Coming to PC Soon

I think we can all agree that console exclusives coming to PC can only be a good thing. Death Stranding is already available on PC, but it seems as though it will be getting the same treatment as console players. That’s right,…