Code Vein Review – Bloodbored
If you were waiting for a Dark Souls inspired game to set your heart aflutter with vampiric themes and pulse-pounding combat…then you might want to wait a bit longer, as Code Vein definitely isn’t that game.
If you were waiting for a Dark Souls inspired game to set your heart aflutter with vampiric themes and pulse-pounding combat…then you might want to wait a bit longer, as Code Vein definitely isn’t that game.
Stuck in development hell as it bounced around Hollywood for over 20 years, Gemini Man is finally hitting the big screen boasting some eye-watering technological leaps. But was all this filmmaking wizardry worth the wait?
Joker is a conflagration of themes and meta-commentary as subtle as a city on fire. It's inflammatory and revulsive and self-indulgent and pretentious and meticulous and achingly beautiful. In short: It's art.
Overall, FIFA 20 is a gift wrapped with flair and flamboyance on the outside. When you unwrap it, rather than it brimming to the full, it leaves you a little underwhelmed. It’s still good, there’s lots to be found inside and it will no doubt keep you busy for hours on end, but there's just not the same magic inside as there is on the outside.
Its world is magnificently detailed, the story is fascinating and while the bones may not have much meat on them for now, Hunt: Showdown is showing some promising signs of fattening up as it doubles down on adding to its creepy world.
While the regular Nintendo Switch is still the best Jack of all Trades console that you can find on the market today, the Switch Lite is a fantastic new spin on an already brilliant console that offers plenty of comfort and style at an affordable price.
I enjoy media and genres that can take on different contexts over time. Mikey Neuman, over on his excellent YouTube show Movies with Mikey, did an excellent reading of the film Hot Fuzz, speaking about how fascinating it was that the film has remained exactly the same over the years but its extrapolated meaning has changed over time. The movie …
It’s been a heck of a year for Lovecraft games, huh? Given the (relatively) recent growth in the appreciation of that old racist codger’s fiction, I suppose it shouldn’t really come as a surprise that so many different developers are offering up their own takes on the Lovecraftian mythos, and it’s even less of surprise that many of them just …
Traci Braxton husband was Kevin Surratt Sr., a longtime partner who stood by her …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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