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Image via Yacht Club Games Yacht Club Games built a name for itself off of Shovel Knight and its spin-offs, becoming known for its 8-bit spritework and clever platforming challenges. Mina the Hollower provides an opportunity to build on that by expanding into a new genre, and this The Legend of Zelda style top-down action adventure game doesn’t miss. It challenges the player in whole new ways, while offering a compelling story and excuses to go hunting for secrets and new challenges. I’m not sure it’ll inspire follow-ups like Mina the Hollower: Dig , but the characters are so delightful…

Online gaming is a wide label now. It can mean a console match with friends, a puzzle app on the train, an esports stream, a mobile game that lasts three minutes, or a casino lobby opened from a phone. These things are not the same, but they all sit inside the same screen habit. Online casinos have their own corner in that world. They are not regular video games. Real money changes the whole setting, and that matters. Still, the way people move through online casinos like Betway zm now feels much closer to digital gaming than to the old…

Nioh 3 review An amalgamation of Elden Ring, Assassin’s Creed, and Diablo, manifested into a punishing yet immensely satisfying combo-heavy package. Developer: Team Ninja Publisher: Koei Tecmo Release: February 6 2026 On: Windows From: Steam Price: £64.99/$69.99 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i9-10850K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 11 My experience with the third Nioh reminded me of many other games — the open world of Elden Ring, the samurai/ninja gameplay of Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and the dopamine-generating loot drops of Diablo. I make these comparisons not to disparage Nioh 3, but rather to praise its adroitness. This is…

Image via Toge Productions The original Coffee Talk visual novel ended up being so influential that it spawned a whole subgenre for that kind of games and led to titles such as Disney Villains Cursed Cafe and Tavern Talk. The sequel offered a continuation of character arcs and an ability to hand out items. Coffee Talk Tokyo is yet another serving of the same sort of lofi experience, filled with engaging customers to gradually befriend and both hot and cold drinks to dispense.  Coffee Talk Tokyo is set in, you guessed it, Japan in 2026. The latest barista runs a…

The Metroidvania concept has enthralled players now for dozens of years as it took on a unique buzzword status to boost the appeal of 2D games. Tevi is the latest game to adopt this subgenre, and in my review, I evaluate its unique contributions as a game! A Metroidvania with RPG and Bullet Hell Elements Image: CreSpirit Tevi is, on the surface level, another 2D sidescroller with backtracking and plenty of secrets to uncover. You can unleash increasingly layered melee combos, evasive maneuvers, and general attacks while you level up, and find new ranged attacks to pack a wallop before…

The Avatar film franchise has been a special series for moviegoers worldwide, grossing over $5 billion in just two films. With such massive appeal for James Cameron’s iconic epic science fiction, I was skeptical about it getting a game. Here is my review of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. It’s Time to Wake Up Image: Massive Entertainment / Ubisoft This isn’t the first time I’ve gotten to review an Avatar property. This time last year, The Way of Water came out, and while it was a delightful experience, there were just enough flaws to remind me that sometimes what I like…

Image: Vertigo Games | Published: Dec 7, 2023 03:37 pm The VR landscape has shifted dramatically since mainstream consumer VR headsets first hit the market back in 2016. Back then, the novelty of VR carried a lot of games that probably wouldn’t be as well-received today. Very few games stood out as must-haves, and one game in particular rose above the rest as the premier VR zombie-slayer: Vertigo Games’ Arizona Sunshine. The sequel to the comedic carnage has finally arrived, but is a new canine companion enough to keep things fresh? While Arizona Sunshine 2 is still a gory good…

When Tales of Arise first launched in 2021, I considered it an exciting entry. It really felt like something of an upgrade in terms of some mechanics and environmental design compared to PS4 and Xbox One-era installments. Now that Tales of Arise: Beyond the Dawn Edition is on the Switch 2, I’m just as excited in entirely different ways. Not only due to this being the “complete” package, but it being a port that feels so smooth and well executed on the system.  Since this is the full version of Tales of Arise, we’re getting both the base game and…

More than two decades ago, Shadow of the Colossus arrived on the PlayStation 2 and set a standard for sophisticated, immersive storytelling that still feels wholly unique today. Very few games since have been able to replicate the sense of scale and mystery that made Fumito Ueda and Team Ico’s masterpiece so unforgettable. Among Giants comes remarkably close.It also understands something many modern games studiously ignore: that mystery works best when players are allowed to feel lost. Among Giants is difficult, opaque, occasionally frustrating and sometimes mechanically abrasive. It is also one of the best, most atmospheric, and most immersive…

Professor Harry Everhart may have survived the cosmic horror that plagued him while he was trapped on that accursed Pacific island in Call of the Sea, but he still suffers from ominous visions decades later. Elsewhere, university student Evangeline Drayton has similarly bizarre dreams of a life and civilization beyond her understanding. When fate brings these two together, it leads to an intriguing and fun mystery centered on solving puzzles that bend the mind and reality itself.Like its 2020 predecessor, Call of the Elder Gods challenges players to solve elaborate environmental puzzles using observational and deductive skills, with no small…