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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla review — An epic Viking saga

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is the twelfth major installment in Ubisoft’s flagship open-world, action-adventure series. Indeed, after reviewing Assassin’s Creed Odyssey back in 2023, I have been eagerly looking forward to what this latest offering in the franchise has in store….

Mortal Kombat 11 Review – The Right Fight

The new big bad in Mortal Kombat is named Kronika, and she’s causing a ruckus by messing with time and rewriting history. Characters are getting erased or colliding with their past selves, while alliances are reverting and new ones are…

Earthfall Review: An Inferior Invasion

Leave it for dead. It’d be easy to dismiss Earthfall as nothing more than a Left 4 Dead clone, and you wouldn’t be wrong to do so. Despite riffing on well-known and beloved source material, Earthfall drags, with unremarkable missions and mediocre gunplay weighing…

The Red Lantern review — Dog will hunt

I have to be honest. A rogue-lite about dog-sledding was not something I thought would ever exist. The Red Lantern has some interesting ideas, cute dogs, and endearing visuals, but it’s significantly held back by repetition, too few mechanics, and…

Mordhau Review – Medieval Times

The sun beats down on the battlefield as the war cries of my fellow soldiers ring out. Catapults pelt us from a distance and the giant boulders explode onto the ground around us with a great thud, thinning our numbers…

Spellbreak Review – Epic mage battles for the ages

Spellbreak is a fantasy battle royale that challenges you to duke it out with 41 other mages using powerful spells. The combat is fast, chaotic, and absolutely epic. Don’t worry, Spellbreak will ease you into it. When you first open the game, you’ll begin…

Valorant Review – A Valiant Effort

Valorant hooks you match after match with tight, tactical gameplay, albeit in rather barebones fashion. Think Counter-Strike with hero elements. That’s the elevator pitch for Valorant, Riot Games’ debut on the competitive first-person shooter scene. I say that not to disparage Valorant, though….

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope review — The perfect game for Halloween

Four students and their professor, fresh off a field trip, are stranded in the middle of a highway after their bus crashes. Your exploration uncovers deeper mysteries in a nearby New England town, one that’s steeped in occult rituals. This…

Spelunky 2 Review – Snakes On A 2D Plane

Spelunky 2 is a successful evolution of what made the original Spelunky work. In Spelunky 2, the turkey’s fate is in your hands. You could hop on the bird’s back, making use of its double jump and Yoshi-like glide to flap…

Transient review — Across the universe

It’s almost Halloween, and you know what that means! It’s time to review another Cthulhu-mythos walking simulator with some puzzles here and there! Transient is the successor to the game Conarium, although it requires no familiarity with it. The game might…

WRC 9 review — Not a Sunday drive

Taking place across 13 countries around the world, WRC 9: Fia World Rally Championship puts you behind the wheel of nimble rally cars as you race against the clock. The goal: to dominate the death-defying tracks of some of the…

Persona Q2 Review – You Oughta Be In Pictures

It looks like the 3DS’s time in the spotlight is over. We’ve seen 3DS support dwindle over the past few years, but there’s at least one more show to see on the long-lived portable before it takes a bow. Persona Q2:…