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It’s that time of year again. The leaves are turning brown, your social media feed is drowning in pumpkin spice propaganda, and you’ve already worn the same oversized hoodie for six consecutive days. Congratulations, you’re officially in “cozy season.” Now, if you’re like me—a person who has spent an embarrassing amount of money on indie

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. So you finished Nobody Wants to Die. You stared at your screen. Rain streaked down the digital window of your mind. James Karra’s gravelly voice is still rattling around your skull like a loose bullet casing. And now you’re sitting there at 2 AM thinking, “What the

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Look, I get it. You’re here because it’s October, the pumpkin spice has infiltrated everything, and you want to be scared. Not “oh no, my Amazon package is late” scared. I mean properly terrified, the kind where you have to leave the hallway light on and question why

Author’s Note: This review is based on actual gameplay. If you think I played it wrong, you’re probably right. I did spend forty minutes figuring out how to politely ask Kaizen to open a door. Disclosure: I bought this game with my own money, played it through three times, and still can’t decide if I loved it

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. You’ve beaten Onimusha: Way of the Sword. You’ve absorbed enough Genma souls to power a small nation. And now you’re sitting there, controller in hand, wondering what to do with your life. Congratulations. You’ve discovered the cruelest truth of the gaming industry: the games that hit hardest

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Year by year, she erases us. Every year, the Paintress wakes and paints a number on her monolith. Everyone that age turns to smoke and fades away. Tomorrow, she paints “33.” Tomorrow, we depart on our final mission—destroy the Paintress, so she can never paint death

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. I have not played Insomniac’s Wolverine yet. But I have heard things. Whispers. The kind of whispers that make you instinctively check if your pre-order has shipped before you remember you did not pre-order. A Metascore that makes grown adults clutch their Spider-Man collector’s editions and

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Let’s be honest: most “deep” games about climate change are about as subtle as a brick through a window. You get the heavy-handed metaphor, the guilt-trip soundtrack, the ending where the protagonist gives a speech about how we’re all doomed unless we recycle more. Congratulations, you’ve

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Let’s get one thing straight: you’re not getting any younger, and November 5th—the release date for the Ocarina of Time remake on Switch 2—is still an eternity away. You could spend the next two months staring at the pre-order screen, refreshing your email for a shipping

Hello everyone and welcome back to another blog post. Congratulations, humanity! We finally solved death. Turns out, the solution was just a monthly subscription fee, and if you miss a payment, they repossess your body while you’re still using it. Progress! In Nobody Wants to Die, the neo-noir detective thriller set in New York 2329,