Yeti Snowbrawl Review

For the longest time, I only knew of the Utawarerumono series because certain corners of the fandom jokingly called it Underwater Ray Romano. When I moved past the memes and finally gave the games a shot, though, I was blown away. Ray Romano be damned, these visual novels are amazing! Their tight writing, gorgeous old-school artwork and immersive world-building hooked me, and the tactics-gameplay battles that were sprinkled throughout them helped keep me engaged until the credits rolled.

We review Hamlet: The Village Building Game from Mighty Boards. In Hamlet, players are building out a communal village with the hope of scoring the most points.

We review Fantasy Realms, a combo card playing board game published by WizKids Games. In Fantasy Realms, players are trying to create the highest scoring hand over the course of the game.

From the city street shootouts of Heat to the creepy clown masks found in The Dark Knight’s opening moments, there’s something alarmingly alluring about the Hollywood bank heist fantasy. Fortunately, the excellent Payday series has been letting me live it out for more than a decade without needing to establish a rap sheet of my own. The next chapter in this long-running burglary simulator, Payday 3, recently concluded its open beta before we all get to filch the final version later this month – and though this early look was only a limited snapshot of what’s to come, it already feels like a significant step up from the lawbreaking of Payday 2. After twelve hours of smashing and grabbing, I’ve got a whole lot more left to see in the full game, but so far I’m very excited to come out of retirement and continue my life of crime.

Throughout my nearly 130 hours of Baldur’s Gate 3 , I could not help but be astounded by the sheer flexibility the CRPG showed in allowing me to push things along my own way. From getting into a drinking contest with a bloated, undead carcass to bypassing long encounters thanks to a well-cast invisibility spell, Baldur’s Gate 3 made me feel as though I could do anything.

Dragonflight Season 2 released with 3 brand new affixes and reworked old affixes. We review the changes and give thoughts on what we would want to see for affixes in Season 3!

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.

If any video game truly deserves the mildly ludicrous 'AAAA' moniker, it's Baldur's Gate 3. Larian Studios' latest is a roleplaying experience of the first order, a work of vanishing beauty made in the old ways to modern specifications. This third instalment in the long-dormant series effortlessly makes spiritual progenitors Mass Effect and Dragon Age look like tentative first steps on a grander adventure; Larian's own immaculate Divinity: Original Sin 2, a first draft in comparison.

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.

Last week, I wrote about the ROG Strix Scar X3D: a gigantic, very expensive gaming laptop with off-the-charts benchmark scores. The X3D is a very exciting product in terms of what it represents for the laptop sphere but not something I necessarily see a whole bunch of people rushing to purchase.

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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