Game Night: Let’s Get Murdered By Pixel Aliens in ‘Exophobia’
Exophobia bills itself as a first-person Metroidvania, but that’s not terribly accurate. It feels more like someone tried to port…
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Game Night: It’s Bullet Heaven Weekend With ‘Earl vs. the Mutants’ and ‘Death Must Die’
I haven’t written as many columns about “bullet heaven” games as I could have. Almost as soon as Vampire Survivors…
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Game Night: It’s a Horrible Night to Have a Curse in ‘Dragon is Dead’
Starting with 2002’s Harmony of Dissonance, several of the Castlevania games on Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS let you…
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Game Night: ‘Capes’ Asks Some Pointed Questions About Superheroes
Without looking, I assume that at least half the reviews for Capes used the phrase “superhero fatigue.” That might be…
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Game Night: It’s Casual Friday with ‘Sokomage’ and ‘Hive Jump 2: Survivors’
I had to switch horses mid-race this week. I started playing a game for the column, but it rapidly became…
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Game Night: Let’s Kill Some Dreams With ‘The Tower on the Borderland’
“Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil,” the late Terry Pratchett wrote. “Prayer,…
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Game Night: Explore a Cheerful Hand-Made Dystopia in ‘Harold Halibut’
The problem with Harold Halibut is that it’s a startlingly vivid artistic accomplishment, but in the traditional sense of the…
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Game Night: I’m Not Sure If ‘Phantom Fury’ Is Actually Kidding
It’s interesting how nostalgia comes in layers. The concept of the “boomer shooter” started with games that were deliberate throwbacks…
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What ‘Furiosa’s’ Failure Says About Hollywood According to Someone Who’d Have Had the Same Opinion if It Succeeded
RALEIGH, N.C. — George Miller’s new film Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga was the headliner for what’s been called the…
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Game Night: Getting My Idle Clicker On With ‘Dragon Ruins’
Check out our weekly indie game review column Game Night on our non-satirical section, Minus World.
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