Alex’s “Top 5 Games” of 2020
In a wild year full of ever changing items, something remained consistent for me in 2020: limited game time! Gaming took both a front seat and a back seat while I dealt with my end of the pandemic. Early on,…
Read moreIn a wild year full of ever changing items, something remained consistent for me in 2020: limited game time! Gaming took both a front seat and a back seat while I dealt with my end of the pandemic. Early on,…
Read moreWhat better way to have celebrated Halloween than with the release of a spooky game in The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope. It’s a survival horror game that has you jumping back and forth in time to figure out what’s…
Read moreA Star Wars flying game? Now there’s a game I haven’t heard of in a long, long time. A long time. Some haven’t played such a game since, oh, before you were born – provided you were born in 1998…
Read moreMarvel’s Avengers is a game that’s been through a bit of a rough go–sort of slammed for not being the MCU version of the characters, delayed due to COVID-19 shut downs, and a beta that was fine, but I personally…
Read more“NOW THIS IS PODRACING” – every person who ever played Star Wars Episode 1: Racer back in 1999 and now again in 2020. Developers Aspyr have worked to bring us exactly what we had back in ‘99 with a remastered…
Read moreAt the time of this writing, the world is in a bad place. While I normally wouldn’t want to make a game review so specific to a time, despite it inherently tends to be in terms of the state of…
Read more2019 was one hell of a year for me, but mostly on a personal level. In the gaming area, things were a little tough. Where does it fit in when you are trying to accomplish several major life elements? Definitely…
Read moreAh, single player Star Wars. Long have we waited to see this work out. Star Wars: Battlefront (2015) had nothing to say and Battlefront II provided Inferno Squad through a single-player campaign, but still relied heavily on multiplayer activity. But…
Read moreWe’re going back to war. Well, not really. Xbox Game Studios and The Coalition are taking us back to the Gears franchise but dropping the “of War” portion of the title and simply offering us Gears 5. But will this…
Read moreIron Man and VR? A match anyone could love 3000. At least, that’s what developer Camoflaj will be banking on when they release Iron Man VR on the PlayStation 4 at a to-be-determined time. I was able to play through…
Read moreThe Stranger Things 3 hype machine marks the return of BonusXP and their video game franchise for the Stranger Things adaptations. No major extras for this title. Just Stranger Things 3: The Game. What Is It? Stranger Things 3: The…
Read moreIt’s finally time for a review of Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2. Months after release? Such is the life of a gamer with too much going on and yet so much to do within a massive game. Was it worth…
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