What’s good. What’s not so good. The Nintendo Switch online service is scheduled to go live later today (September 18, 2018). Nintendo is promising some features to enhance the Switch experience but it is not without concern. Below are the major facts [...]
Party Planet 1.5 At the end of 2017, Mastiff and Teyon released Party Planet on Switch, a mini game compilation that supported local multiplayer with several controller options. Arcade Islands Volume One on XBOX One and PS4 is essentially Party Planet 1.5 [...]
This game is way better than it has any right to be. Most reviews don’t start that way, but it is a matter of fact. Ultimate Fishing Simulator manages to mix RPG elements, money management, and catching big honkers (fish). It doesn’t really matter, [...]
Time Well Wasted There seems to be an interesting trend in the industry lately. Nostalgia is king, with pixel art platformers and collections of retro titles being announced every other week, it feels like. Not that this reviewers complaining, as I will [...]
Door Kickers: Action Squad just recently came out of Steam Early Access to a full release title and had a chance to check it out. At first glance, it sort of looks like a 2D Rainbow Six Siege. However, at taking it for a whirl, this game is actually a lot [...]
Phantom Doctrine tries to invoke all the feelings of high espionage from the cold war, mixing in much of the intrigue that moves that plot forward. It also borrows heavily from the XCOM series in mechanics as well, not only in field movement but also in [...]
“Ehh, what’s up doc?” Mixing a beat’em up but with a twist of an endless runner, Ninjin: Clash of Carrots is easy-going, mindless fun especially in co-op mode. In classic brawlers like Streets of Rage, Final Fight, or the TMNT games, the players walk from [...]
Visions of the Past Some genres age like a fine wine, and in fact, I find myself frequently booting up old platformers and beat-em-ups to go on a nostalgia trip for a few hours. As genres like these go in and out of fashion, there is one particular genre [...]
