News China Restricts Video Game Usage for Children Under 18 China is limiting video game playtime for kids under 18 to three hours per week as well as restricting online gaming to Fridays, weekends, and public holidays from 8 p.m. to...

Welcome to a new set of entries into the BRG Collection. The rest of the games in my ongoing list can be found here or at the bottom of the blog. With that said, here are entries #33-36. Bioshock Release Year: 2007 / Developers: 2K B...

The ranking of Metal Gear games continues with Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. You can find the rank itself at the bottom. So, without further ado, let’s get into it. The game follows two different characters in two differe...

September, October, and November are usually the big three months for releases in the year, and 2021’s September seems to be no exception. Whether or not it’s a big month, however, these lists will go on. And hey, what do ...

News Gamescom Gamescom, despite being all-virtual this year, had some games to show off. Starting off on the 24th with a Destiny 2 showcase and ending on the 26th with a Future Games Show, there were many games shown off to look forw...

A Short Hike A Short Hike is a bite-sized exploration game about a bird trying to make it to the top of a mountain. The game takes place on an island, and you can either walk, fly, or climb around. Flying and climbing uses up feather...

Welcome to a new set of entries into the BRG Collection. The rest of the games in my ongoing list can be found here or at the bottom of this blog. With that said, here are entries #29-32. Hades Release Year: 2020 / Developers: Superg...

Note: since I skipped the last Ten After Ten, I’m also including news, releases, and blogs from July 30th through August 9th if applicable. News Epic Games Store Testing Self-Publishing Epic Games is testing a self-publishing s...

The Left 4 Dead subgenre has exploded over the past five years, with many IPs both new and old trying to take a piece of that pie to varying degrees of success. Of all the Left 4 Dead-likes that have released, though, the one people s...

August is here, which makes this the fourth anniversary of me doing these monthly anticipated lists. For reference, my most anticipated releases of August 2017 were Lawbreakers, Absolver, Uncharted: Lost Legacy, Agents of Mayhem, and ...

News Activision Blizzard Lawsuit The biggest story to grab headlines during this time was a lawsuit filed in California alleging workplace discrimination. From there, a whirlwind of events happened including a walkout, an open letter...

Note: review code provided by Blitworks. For me, artillery games are a very early childhood memory rooted in Flash. Launching cannon shots and chunking away at the terrain has been around for a surprisingly long time in video games, a...

News Valve Announced The Steam Deck Shortly after the disappointing announcement of Nintendo’s Switch OLED model, Valve announced their foray into the handheld gaming market with the Steam Deck. Since this handheld is meant to ...

While rogue-lites are quite fun, they can be rather restrictive in certain ways. Trying to tell a story, for example, is rather difficult given the run-based nature of the genre. What Supergiant Games have done with Hades, however, sh...

News New Switch OLED For the past few years, people wondered what Nintendo will do with the Nintendo Switch in regards to a half-step iteration on the popular device. After months of speculation and years of anticipation, Nintendo an...

Note: code provided by Terminals.io / tinyBuild. Also, I stopped playing the game at around 11 hours and did not complete the main campaign, so this write-up is based on the time I had with the game rather than the totality of the exp...

Welcome to a new set of entries into the BRG Collection. The rest of the games in my ongoing list can be found here or at the bottom of this blog. With that said, here are entries #25-28. Monster Hunter: World Release Year: 2018...

We are already in the seventh month of the year, which means a new set of games to get excited about. This month is pleasantly packed with releases, and I actually had to whittle down the list to five instead of trying to fill in the ...

News River A.K.A. Dogmeat has Died River, who was the inspiration for Fallout 4’s Dogmeat, has passed away according to the owner Joel Burgess on Twitter. Burgess talked about how River was chosen for the Dogmeat role and why s...

Note: This blog contains spoilers, strong language, strong themes, and disturbing images. The Kane and Lynch duology is one mired with mixed reviews and controversy, most notably of which was a review by Jeff Gerstmann that led to his...

News E3 2021 The main bulk of E3 and the non-affiliated shows surrounding it came and went during this time. I won’t really get into it here because I already did a couple of blogs about it (linked below), but I thought overall...

I didn’t cover E3 this year, but that didn’t mean I didn’t watch it. About a week ago I put out a post explaining why I didn’t cover E3 this year and whatnot, but that isn’t the focus for this blog. This ...

Normally during this time of the year, I would start covering “E3,” which at this rate is more of a blanket term for all of the gaming events surrounding the ESA’s Anaheim Convention Center Expo like the blast zone o...

News I am aware of all the E3 news as well as the news about the Atari VCS, but I will cover them on the next Ten After Ten. Older Need for Speed Titles are Being Sunset According to a Reddit post by Need for Speed Community Manager ...

Welcome to a new set of entries into the BRG Collection. The rest of the games in my ongoing list can be found here or at the bottom of this blog. With that said, here are entries #21-24. Far Cry 3 Release Year: 2012 / Developers: Ub...

Note: review code provided by THQ Nordic / Terminals.io and will include spoilers. Four years ago, I played a demo of Biotmutant at Gamestop Expo in Las Vegas. A lot of time has passed, a lot of games have released, and I have written...

It’s now June and you know what that means: E3 season, or whatever it will look like this year. Even before the pandemic hit, the E3 landscape was starting to drastically change with more studios hosting their own events and the...

Note: Game provided by GTP Media and Sever/101XP Welcome or welcome back to my blogthrough of The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante. If you haven’t read the first part yet, I would highly recommend doing so as it explains what I ...

Note: Review code provided by Sony and Terminals.io. Also, this review will not be a comparison to the console versions of the game. Few things have been more prolific in the games industry than zombies. The same thing could be said f...

Deadly Days (Switch) Deadly Days is a top-down strategy rogue-lite about a group of survivors trying to survive in a zombie apocalypse. Each in-game day, you send survivors out on a mission to collect resources in a limited time fram...