New Releases: March 28th-April 3rd, 2024

This week, junior detective Mackenzie and her faithful sidekick Funghi make their English-language debut in Touch Detective 3 + The Complete Case Files (pictured). Meanwhile, OTXO offers some overhead ultraviolence with some roguelike qualities. If ...

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Verzeus mini-review

All the joys of a classic Game Boy Shooter, just without the eye strain. This month, Retsuzan’s “Game Buddy” franchise arrived on Steam. As the name implies, each entry in the seven-game series evokes the ...

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The Legend of Legacy HD Remastered review

Not quite legendary, but nine years on, FuRyu’s role-playing legacy endures. In 2020, FuRyu’s The Alliance Alive made a reappearance, bringing a graphically improved port to most contemporary platforms. Now, the Shibuya-based publisher is reaching ...

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New Releases: March 21st-27th, 2024

This week, Rise of the Ronin lets players loose in a Bakumatsu period recreation of Edo, Kyoto, and Yokohama, while Dragon’s Dogma 2 purportedly offers a game map that’s four times larger than its predecessor. ...

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Dungeon Drafters (Switch) review

Fusing grid-based movement with card battling, Dungeon Drafters demonstrates a lot of ambition. Although the Switch port improves upon the original PC release, the nonsensical writing and balancing issues haven’t been remedied. 2005’s Metal Gear Acid was one of ...

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Berserk Boy mini-review

Retro fans, you’re going to like this wild child. With its succession of elemental-themed abilities gained every time you defeat a boss, Berserk Boy is likely to be compared with the Mega Man franchise. But ...

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Unicorn Overlord review

Vanillaware retains its long-running reign, with the studio delivering another enchanting experience. Osaka-based Vanillaware confidently pushes genres in innovative directions. 2007’s GrimGrimoire adapted the mechanics of real-time strategy games – placing them on side-scrolling, two-dimensional ...

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New Releases: March 14th-20th, 2024

Before baseball season begins later this month, MLB The Show 24 takes a leadoff, heading onto consoles this week. Alone in the Dark also arrives this week, providing a reimaging of the 1992 survival horror ...

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Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story review

Boasting skilled curation, Digital Eclipse delivers a mixed-medium digital museum dedicated to the life of Jeff Minter. With each image, video interview, and playable game, it builds a strong argument that the developer commonly known ...

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Bore Blasters review

“I’m Gonna Make You Mine”, 8BitSkull boasts. While there are people who dig shallow holes in the ground for fun, hobby tunneling can become an obsession. In California’s Mojave Desert, a man known as William ...

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