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Spelunky 2 Wants You to Die, Hades Wants You to Win
Back in 2012 I was blown away by Spelunky, a slick yet simple roguelike platformer with colorful art that masked a brutally challenging experience. Every run begins the same. Armed...Read More
Five New Digital Board Game Adaptations You Need to Play in 2020
Playing video games with friends online has never been easier. Yet it still doesn’t compare to gathering around a table to throw dice, move miniatures, and build empires of cards....Read More
Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning is Still a Great RPG Nearly a Decade Later
Eight years ago the now infamously defunct 38 Studios released their first and only game. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning was a big-budget single player RPG. It was created as a...Read More
Crucible First Impressions: Fun Characters and Glaring Issues
Amazon Games’ first published title sinks into a familiar space in recent years: the free-to-play online hero shooter. To its credit, Crucible doesn’t try to remake Overwatch. Nor does it...Read More
Opinion: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Local Co-op is Frustratingly Limited
I was the first person to play Animal Crossing: New Horizons in my house. I didn’t realize the power that would be bestowed upon me as the island’s primary resident...Read More
Funkoverse Board Games Are the Perfect Light Strategy Games for Families
I never paid much attention to the odd, square-headed figurines known as Funko, despite their incredible popularity and breadth of licenses. They couldn’t be scanned into their own video game...Read More
The Latinx Lounge and PAX Together Booth Were Fantastic New Additions to PAX
Image source: Latinx in Gaming Tucked away in a second floor conference room at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas was an experimental section of PAX...Read More
The Ten Best Family Games of 2019
It’s the calm before the storm as we head into 2020, with with a pair of next-gen consoles looming on the horizon from Sony and Microsoft. This year was more...Read More
