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Wildwood Down Review – Let’s Get Down To Business
No matter how far the video game media evolves, no matter how shiny the graphics or complicated the gameplay become, the point-and-click adventure game will never die. That immortality comes with a price, though, and that’s an inability to change. From its glory days in the 90s and early 2000s to now, the genre hasn’t…

Steelbook Editions Of Studio Ghibli’s Best Movies Are Only $16 At Amazon
If you’re a Studio Ghibli fan, now’s an ideal time to start or expand your Blu-ray collection. The distinctive, matching Steelbook Editions of most of the movies in the Japanese animation studio’s filmography are on sale for exceedingly low prices at Amazon. Nearly all of animated movies written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki are featured…

Tiny Bookshop Review
There’s a particular kind of fantasy that cozy games like Tiny Bookshop tap into—walking away from the stress and constant noise of modern life to start anew in someplace cozy and quiet. It’s an irresistible daydream for many of us, and Tiny Bookshop lends us the temporary escape from reality that we all crave. In…

Steam’s fight against Visa, Mastercard, and censorship is only getting messier
It’s been weeks of anger and confusion for fans and game developers ensnared in the debacle between gaming storefronts — like Valve and itch.io — and the payment processors that service them. Who, exactly, is responsible for the recent crackdown on adult games? The answer changes depending on who you ask. That vagueness has been…

How Virtua Fighter Looks to Bring Innovation and Realism to the 3D Fighting Genre | Evo 2025 – IGN
While it wasn’t ready for a gameplay demo at Evo, the new Virtua Fighter project was still one of the most exciting games of the show, thanks to a brand new trailer released during Finals day that gave us our best look yet at what Sega and RGG have cooking for this revival of a…

Wildgate Review
Wildgate is a brand-new IP from Moonshot Games, a brand-new studio, and Dreamhaven, a relatively new publisher with a few games under its belt. Releasing a new multiplayer game in the current industry climate is a bold move and one that I can ultimately respect. Although the studio and publisher are new, the talent at…

Is Critical Role still Critical Role without Matt Mercer as DM?
A bombshell announcement from Critical Role has sent ripples across the internet. Announced on July 2, for the first time ever in Critical Role’s history, there will be a new Dungeon Master leading a core campaign. Instead of co-creator Matthew Mercer, Campaign 4 will have a new host entirely: Brennan Lee Mulligan, Dropout’s Dimension 20…

Mistborn: The Deckbuilding Game Review – IGN
I love it when multiple passions of mine mix together into something awesome. So as someone who loves board games and books from epic fantasy author, Brandon Sanderson (specifically the Cosmere series), Mistborn: The Deckbuilding Game really hits that sweet spot. With Era 1 characters Marsh, Shan, Vin, and Kelsier, each depicted with beautiful art…

Lego Mario Kart: Check Out All Five New Sets & Deals On The Original Lineup
Lego’s Mario Kart collection has nearly doubled in size with the release of the second wave of playsets on August 1. And just like with January’s launch lineup, the new building sets feature karts pulled from the video game series and introduce a character that had previously never received the Lego treatment: Wario. The fan-favorite…

Elden Ring Nightreign Duo Expeditions are here and so are all these quality of life changes
Elden Ring Nightreign’s latest patch has finally arrived. Following a one-day delay due to a tsunami warning in Japan, FromSoftware officially rolled out patch 1.02 moments ago across all platforms. The patch’s release follows about an hour of server maintenance, which rendered servers offline. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings…