Yearly Archives: 2024

Taking a Drive with Pacific Drive

When I first heard about Ironwood Studio’s survival horror game I did not really know what to think. The setup was intriguing for sure: you are trapped in a quarantined area of the pacific northwest with some crazy dimension-bending things afoot. You must make your way out whatever it takes. How the game sets itself apart is that the survival…

Steelrising

The Alternate Timeline French Revolution of the Souls-like Sub-genre Set during an alternate version of King Louis XVI’s reign of France, Spiders’s Steelrising puts players in control of Aegis, an automaton, or Automat as the game calls them. Intended to be Marie Antoinette’s bodyguard, Aegis is sent on a mission to find Antoinette’s surviving children, and learn the fate of…

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2: Not Game of the Year

On December 7th 2023, The Game Awards took place and dubbed 2023’s Game of the Year. Many fellow gamers were split between who would win, Larian Studios’ Baldur’s Gate 3, or Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. Both games that many were anticipating for years. Alas, Larian Studios took home the win, leaving many fans of the Spider-Man sequel asking, ‘Why?’. So why…

Stray

The Dystopian Cat Simulator We Never Knew We Needed Set in a post-apocalyptic city where humans no longer exist, Stray puts players in control of an adorable orange cat trying to find its way home after being separated from its fellow felines. With an amazing attention to detail and love put into the model and animation of the little protagonist,…

Dragon Age: Origins Replay Review

With Dragon Age Dreadwolf making its teaser debut a few months back, it is only right to discuss its predecessor: Dragon Age Origins. After many years since my very first playthrough of Dragon Age Origins, I had the opportunity to play it again only this time through the PC, and man was I missing out.  Released in 2009, developed by…