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Criminally Underrated Roguelikes on PS4

Roguelikes are enjoying a surge in popularity, and it isn’t hard to see why. Instead of leaning heavily on over-the-top visuals, dazzling cutscenes, elaborate plotlines, and complicated mechanics, roguelikes keep it simple and rely solely on the gameplay. You might get a brief tutorial before they launch you into the central gameplay loop, but usually you kick things off and the game unapologetically whips you … Continue reading Criminally Underrated Roguelikes on PS4

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Gelatinous for Game Boy Crushes its Kickstarter Funding Goal in 75 Minutes

The Gelatinous team destroyed their funding goal and has unlocked all stretch goals. The long-awaited Game Boy platformer is nearing completion. Pending the final 9 days of their Kickstarter campaign, the team is poised to implement newly-unlocked features and get Gelatinous out into the world so they can start on their next project. Learn more by signing up at the Gelatinous: Humanity Lost Kickstarter page. Continue reading Gelatinous for Game Boy Crushes its Kickstarter Funding Goal in 75 Minutes

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New Indie Game Boy Titles You Need to Get Your Hands On

Although the Game Boy was first released over 30 years ago, it continues to be a popular handheld console for retro gamers.  Maybe it’s nostalgia kicking in or the fact that a small team can make a very enjoyable game, or a combination of both, but modern game creators are still producing physical copies of their recent creations. Retro Game Boy fans, collectors, and gamers … Continue reading New Indie Game Boy Titles You Need to Get Your Hands On

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Indie Gaming Hidden Gems You’ve Got to Play

It seems like every day a new game drops on the market. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, particularly for hardcore gamers like yourself. But sometimes the variety of games can feel overwhelming, even more so if you play on multiple platforms. Indie games especially seem to get lost in the shuffle. Trying to find a good indie game can feel like searching for buried … Continue reading Indie Gaming Hidden Gems You’ve Got to Play

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Deliriant Game Review

Deliriants are defined as a class of hallucinogen. The term was introduced by David F. Duncan and Robert S. Gold to distinguish these drugs from psychedelics and dissociatives, such as LSD and ketamine respectively, due to their primary effect of causing delirium, as opposed to the more lucid states produced by such other hallucinogens as are represented by psychedelics and dissociatives [1]. This would have … Continue reading Deliriant Game Review

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This Game is Not Fun – Little Adventure on the Prairie Review

Little Adventure on the Prairie is a hack and slash adventure game where you follow a young man with an insatiable appetite for destroying anything that gets in his way. Little Adventure on the Prairie was developed and published by Infinite Madaa. I believe this was Infinite Madaa’s first game and it shows. It was first released for mobile in 2017, then for 3DS one … Continue reading This Game is Not Fun – Little Adventure on the Prairie Review

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Leap until you Puke with Jump King – for Switch, PS4, and XBox

If you think you’re good at games, try Jump King. There’s a Smoking Hot Babe at the top! The promotional email I received for Jump King promised “a comically vicious vertical platformer.” My thought was, “Oh, I love platformers. Watch me eat this little game for breakfast.” But in the end, I was the breakfast. But Jump King is the kind of game that takes … Continue reading Leap until you Puke with Jump King – for Switch, PS4, and XBox

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Alien Scumbags brings 8 bits of carnage to Steam

Monster Finger Games has mashed up your favorite franchises into a horror parody platformer. Alien Scumbags packs an impressive amount of content into a shiny little package. It’s a 2D, 8-bit platformer with cheeky nods to classic action, horror, and sci fi franchises like DOOM, Duke Nukem, Halo (the main protagonist is Master Chef), Aliens, and tons of familiar faces. Features 10 areas of insanity … Continue reading Alien Scumbags brings 8 bits of carnage to Steam

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Dogurai for PS4 – Game Boy aesthetics in a tough platformer

If Mega Man and Ninja Gaiden had a pet together… it would be Dogurai on PS4, Steam, and Switch Looking for a retro-style platforming game that is reminiscent of old Gameboy boy games? Dogurai is here to slice through the competition. The game has eight stages with countless enemies to hack and slash you way through. Dogurai was developed and published by Hungry Bear Games … Continue reading Dogurai for PS4 – Game Boy aesthetics in a tough platformer

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Grow a Cannabis Empire in Blaze Revolutions

Grow your empire. Then smoke it? Here’s our Blaze Revolutions review. I don’t know how you spent your 4/20 this 2020, but I spent it growing my marijuana empire in the new stealth/tycoon hybrid Blaze Revolution on Steam. Does that sound like a real thing? A stealth/tycoon hybrid? I’ve never heard of such a thing, but when you’re growing an illegal empire, a certain amount … Continue reading Grow a Cannabis Empire in Blaze Revolutions

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