For the Queen – Ye Olde Improv

Doty, take this down – Initially released in 2019, this new edition of For the Queen, designed by Alex Roberts, has found its home at Critical Role’s tabletop publishing house, the Darrington Press. For the Queen sells itself as a…

PAX EAST 2024 Stand Outs

So…this should have been out a good bit ago. That was the goal, actually, but a steady rotation of illnesses through the family and wrestling with an 8-month-old who just wanted to move and explore the house got in the…

Dustbiters offers a surprising amount of depth and strategy in a small package

After more than a year of this pandemic, I’ve gained a special appreciation for the smaller-scale board and card games, especially those games that can be played just by two individuals. Being able to sit down and in the course…

30XX Impressions – Jump’n and Shoot’n Still Feels Great In This Roguelike Sequal!

Battery Staple games were released 20XX back in 2014. This game took the historic gameplay of Capcom’s legendary Mega Man X franchise and infused it with the rogue-like genre’s essence. The result was an incredibly fun action platformer roguelike that…

Ooblets Impressions – Vibing with Lil Plant Babies

Ooblets opens with a very familiar concept: you play as a character who is tired of their old life and moves to the island of Oob in hopes to start a new one in Badgetown. It establishes itself within minutes..…

Morning After: The Nintendo3DS

In case you guys weren’t paying attention to anything going on in the world, Nintendo’s latest handheld, the 3DS, was released at 12:00am this morning to all us lucky North Americans. After all the craziness of the night, how does…

PSP2: Irrational Passions Thoughts/Hopes

Today, January 27th 2011, Sony announced their next handheld console: the NGP (Next Generation Portable). Yeah, we know its dumb, but its just a code name. This IS the long-awaited PSP2, which is hitting sometime holiday this year… in Japan…

Final Fantasy XIII-2 Coming Proves Interesting

*Has been updated with release date. So if you have not yet heard, Final Fantasy XIII-2 was announced for PS3 and Xbox360 today. Apparently, it will be coming out in 2011, but whether that is for Japan only, or in…