Time is cyclical. No matter what happens on a daily basis, you can always depend on the sun rising in the morning and setting in the evening. Like it or not, life is just an infinite loop, with a series of similar-looking offramps scattered throughout the trip. The never-ending, ceaseless nature of life steps into …
The Loupedeck Live is one impressive piece of hardware. A simple-looking companion console that is anything but, the Loupedeck Live expands productivity in ways that many could only dream of. Think of it as keyboard macros ramped up to 11. It’s along the lines of the popular Elgato Stream Deck just with much more flexibility, …
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There’s an acute kind of horror to being very, very small. A lot of it’s in the timing, I think: the time it takes just to get anywhere is so long, so monotonous and lonely, that you feel oddly trapped. All that infinite expanse around you and at the same time, nowhere you can really …
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Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos places the player on a fantasy journey of progression, puzzle-solving, and adventure; a jaunt that is clearly inspired by older entries in The Legend of Zelda series, like A Link to the Past. You pick up a boomerang, a magic wand, a grappling hook, and all the other dungeon-crawling essentials. …
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Today’s best Razer Kiyo Pro deals Most streamers will tell you one of the most painful things about streaming, next to setting up audio, is decent lighting. Not everyone has the room for mounting key lights from the ceiling or space on their desk for a giant ring light. The Razer Kiyo Pro is hopeful …
A good puzzle involves a delicate balance. The perfect brainteaser should leave players confused just long enough to feel clever once they reach a “eureka” moment, but the solution shouldn’t be so obtuse that players want to throw up their hands in frustration. Maquette fails to strike that balance. This gorgeous indie game explores the …
Sometimes, there’s nothing quite so reassuring as a good old JRPG. This is a comfort blanket of a genre for players of a certain age, games that happily consume entire lazy afternoons curled up on a sofa as you slowly push numbers ever upwards. They don’t come much more comforting than those producer Tomoya Asano …
Bravely Default 2 review – a heady serving of nostalgia, and a theorycrafter’s dream Read More »
Bravely Default II hearkens back to another age of fantasy role-playing games, where players would find tiles to pace back and forth on, taking on random encounters to gain experience and resources before proceeding to the dungeon boss. Managing a team of four, players change jobs to access a wide variety of skills and abilities, …
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This game casts a spell. A very particular spell. It is hard as they come, punishing, brutal, unforgiving in its challenge. And yet I love it still. It’s not just difficult. It has a perspective on difficulty. It makes its sheer level of horribleness first endearing and then thrilling. Ghost ‘n Goblins Resurrection review Developer: …
Ghost ‘n Goblins: Resurrection is a game that time forgot, designed to transport players to the heyday of the Super Nintendo where visual beauty meets gameplay brutality, dazzling and pummeling in equal parts. The stack of corpses Resurrection piled up during my playthrough made me swear like a sailor, and yet I walked away singing …
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