Category: Video Games
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The Addictive Loop of Slay the Spire
Roguelikes. A genre built around trial and error. Fast, short, and brutal, they’re all about rolling the dice and honing your skills to their utmost. Deckbuilders. A genre built around patience and strategy. Slow, meticulous, they’re all about careful planning and combinations, about optimizing your cards to bring out your deck’s maximum potential. One is…
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The Immortality of Marvel VS Capcom 3
That’s right! We talkin’ ’bout Mahvel, baby! To an outsider looking in, few pairings in the world make less sense than Marvel and Capcom. But video games are a wild, unpredictable landscape. If Donald Duck can meet Sephiroth and Mario can throw hands with Minecraft Steve, then who is to say Ryu couldn’t shake hands…
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Baldur’s Gate 1 is a Masterpiece
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster… when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes into you… Friedrich Nietzsche Even in the face of all the massive games we’ve been getting in 2023, Baldur’s Gate 3 stands as the clear frontrunner for…
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Spider-Man 2 (PS5): A Solid, Safe Sequel
As if we didn’t have enough quality games this year… Insomiac has done some amazing work with the Spider-Man IP in the last five years. The first game on PS4 was amazing (heh heh, get it?), easily one of the best games on the console. Miles Morales was basically a tech demo, but I still…
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The Five Nights at Freddy’s Movie is Another Adaptation Victory
I was gonna do the original Halloween, because… well, you know. But with this fresh out and streamable, how could I resist? When this movie was first announced back in 2014, I had two thoughts. Thought one: there was no way in hell it would be any good. Thought two: there was no way in…
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