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There is still technically time for this to change, but at this point in the year -- lurching into October, with much of the release schedule for the rest of 2021 dead in the water -- I think Psychonauts...

I've been a Metroid fan since the early days, having Justin Bailey'd my way through the NES adventure and spent time in the deserted labyrinths of SR-388 hunting metroids on a Gameboy long before the series' most beloved instalment...

This is a triple threat review of Factorio, Dyson Sphere Program, and Satisfactory.   Factorio Factorio burst onto the scene in 2016 with an innovative take on the management sim genre that was so well received it has since inspired two successors,...

This is almost what Warhammer 40K licensed products should all be. That’s not prescriptively true, of course; far from it. The Warhammer 40K universe is big enough to fit in all kinds of titles, from third-person character action games to...

And farewell to all that MEss.  I’ve now spent some combined 200 hours playing Mass Effect games over the past few months (with a couple rounds of technical difficulties unrelated to the games themselves near the end), so it’s perhaps...

I’ve now completed Mass Effect 2 for either the seventh or the eighth time, and I have some thoughts on the matter. First, the occasion: we’re going through all three of the original Mass Effect games in their remastered form,...

Mass Effect is the game that should have saved the CRPG, in all honesty. It didn’t, but that wasn’t its fault. Originally released in 2007, the first entry into the iconic and now semi-defunct hybrid shooter/CRPG series was much, much...

Warning: This review contains mild, non-ending plot spoilers.   Yoko Taro’s victory lap continues, strangely, with the game where the ascendant visionary phase of his career began. NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139…, stylized hereafter as Nier for obvious reasons, began life as a third...

Generally speaking we try not to review games before they release too often on this site -- we’ve broken the rule before, usually for games deep into Early Access, and we’re going to be breaking it again for Magic:...

The game begins with the universe being destroyed, and then you move forward from there, on a loop. Loop Hero is not really an idle game, as it’s been somewhat curiously -- and a bit frustratingly -- tagged. You will...