Category: Articles and Reviews

  • Cat Palette: Merging Colorful Kittens

    Cat Palette: Merging Colorful Kittens

    Do you like puzzle games? Do you like cats? Do you like puzzle games with cats? Well, have I got the game for you?

  • Carol & the End of the World – Review

    Carol & the End of the World – Review

    It’s the end of the world. A giant planet is on a collision course with Earth with no way to stop it. With seven months and thirteen days remaining, what would you be doing?

  • Super Mario Bros. Wonder – Review

    Super Mario Bros. Wonder – Review

    Super Mario Bros. Wonder takes 2D Mario in a new direction without losing what made the original games great while adding plenty of new ideas and gameplay mechanics at the same time. 

  • Yu Yu Hakusho – Review

    Yu Yu Hakusho – Review

    It’s been a spotty run for live-action adaptations of anime and manga over the years, with the likes of Dragon Ball Evolution and Ghost in the Shell being the rallying cry of those burned by these efforts. However, Netflix has taken up the mantle of producing more of these adaptations and, after the success of…

  • Starfield – Review

    Starfield – Review

    Bethesda Studio’s latest flagship title Starfield has finally launched (see what I did there) and after spending a considerable amount of time with it I have finally made my evaluation because, oof, this was a difficult one to judge.

  • Ghostrunner 2 – Review

    Ghostrunner 2 – Review

    Sometimes it’s worth taking a chance on a game. I missed the first Ghostrunner, probably full-up on the cyberpunk aesthetic at the time, but mostly through timing and my own aversion to the idea of a game where I can lose in one hit. However, I had some time – somehow between Baldur’s Gate 3…

  • Kill it With Fire VR – Review

    Kill it With Fire VR – Review

    It’s time to take the fight back to the arachnids, only this time they’re all around you. I reviewed the flat version of Kill It With Fire fairly favourably. It was straightforward arcadey destruction, a fun distraction. This VR release is on one virtual hand pretty much the same game, but on the other disembodied…

  • Weedcraft Inc. – Review

    Weedcraft Inc. – Review

    I remember back in the day, when Facebook gaming was just becoming a thing and Farmville was at its peak, there was a similar farming sim game called Pot Farm, from Brain Warp Studios*. I played Pot Farm religiously back in 2010 on my Fujitsu Siemens laptop and, while I may have been there for…

  • Scott Pilgrim: Takes Off – Review

    Scott Pilgrim: Takes Off – Review

    Scott Pilgrim: Takes Off is the newest iteration of Scott Pilgrim media in a brand new show available on Netflix. (Caution – mild spoilers ahead) Taking place in an alternative series of events, Takes Off also tells its own story while amplifying other characters from the universe that you already know of but maybe not…