Review: Orbo’s Odyssey

Mirage feels like a return to the series' roots but the smart implementation of mechanics and features from later games ensures it still feels modern.

To say there’s been a great deal of hype leading up to this point for one of the first Microsoft/Bethesda post-merger is a bit of an understatement. There’s been a lot said about one of the first feature games of its new era, Starfield. While most of the game’s coverage has been largely positive, the talk on behind-the-scenes matters hasn’t always been.

AMD has finally released cards in the mid-range, targeting high refresh-rate gaming at 1440p with its new RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT graphics cards. The new cards start to round out the full product stack from AMD in the RDNA 3 line of GPUs, providing an alternative at the $500 price range from last-gen and competitor offerings. 

Rome 2077 Space Odyssey Action is now available to play on Android! Delve into a brand-new top-down adventure, battling against other spacecraft and enemies as you travel across the galaxy.

The PSVR 2 delivers on Sony’s promise of more fleshed-out games with Firewall Ultra. This title is First Contact Entertainment’s new tactical shooter that serves as a sequel and slight reboot of their 2018 game, Firewall Zero Hour. As a huge step up from its predecessor, Firewall Ultra seems like a game that was done justice by its developers. However, looking at it from a pure VR perspective, it does not deliver the fantasy expected from a virtual reality experience.

The Sand Kingdom is one of the many realms Mario visits in his quest to rescue Princess Peach from the clutches of Bowser in Super Mario Odyssey. With its sprawling deserts, ancient ruins, and bustling towns, this kingdom offers a variety of challenges and secrets for players to uncover.

Mechs are cool. I think it’s just one of those innate facts that we all understand. Give a person a mech suit, let them fiddle around with the kinds of legs, arms, body, and weapons it has, and you’ve got a recipe for success. Armored Core 6 not only has plenty of weapons to choose from, but also different leg types that change the things you can do. Standard legs are jack-of-all-trades, reverse jointed legs are good for jumping, there are legs for hovering, and you can swap out legs for the lower half of a tank, which lets you carry more stuff.

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Step back into the nostalgic times when the only important things were pizza, toys, and building the best fort ever for you and your friends. Playable with 2-4 players ages 10 and up, Fort is a board game that lets you play an awesome deckbuilding game while reliving the austere years of life as a kid.

Swapping swords and spells for mechs and missiles probably wasn't the first thing a FromSoftware accountant suggested following the absurd success of Elden Ring, but then the Japanese developer doesn't do things by the books. Having sold more than 20 million copies of the open world masterpiece, the studio has returned to a series it made primarily before Demon's Souls put its name on the map: Armored Core. A continuation rather than a reboot, an army of new fans is sure to make Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon the most popular entry in the mech franchise to date. What they'll need to accept, though, is this isn't the sort of FromSoftware experience they're used to — it's far from Elden Ring with robots.

I’ve been waiting to watch Junk Head for over a decade.

One of the great joys of being a parent is crushing my kids at any tabletop game we play. OK, no really, but we do enjoy playing games together. And they are finally getting to the age where we can move past the mindless roll and move or memory games. So when Big Discoveries offered to send over a copy of their latest game to check out, I jumped at the chance. One look at the box and I knew I would have no trouble getting it to the table with my kids.