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AEW Fight Forever Review

Gary Smith

Yuke's and THQ step back into the wrestling ring with AEW: Fight Forever. This arcade-style, spiritual successor to the old N64 wrestling games is available now for every platform but mobile. Read our review to find out if it's a contender or a pretender.

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Risen Review

Gary Smith

Risen, the cult classic RPG from Piranha Bytes, is on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. Is it worth playing in 2024? Read our Risen Review!

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Chronos: Before The Ashes Review

Gary Smith

In 2016, Gunfire Games released the RPG Chronos, which a lot of folks compared to titles like Dark Souls and The Legend of Zelda. While the game was generally well received, it had an extremely limited audience because it was a VR game on PC promoted by Oculus. So you had to VR to play it. Now the game has been overhauled and the VR removed, and this new version dubbed Chronos: Before The Ashes is now available on PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch and Stadia. Of course with backwards compatibility, it's…

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Kingdoms of Amalur Re-Reckoning
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Kingdoms of Amalur Re-Reckoning Review

Gary Smith

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning originally released all the way back in February 2012 on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. We won't get into the history of the development of the game and the quick demise of developers 38 Studios and Big Huge Games, because none of that matters in the present. Reckoning was to be the introduction to the Kingdoms of Amalur, which would have been a grand MMO. What we got with Reckoning is a single player RPG, although one that in small ways feels like an MMO world…

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Darksiders Genesis
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Darksiders Genesis Review

Gary Smith

Darksiders Genesis has arrived on consoles (PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch) after releasing late last year for PC and Google Stadia. Budget priced at $39.99, Genesis brings a lot of value to the table in terms of a fun gameplay loop and replayability. Genesis is a spin-off of the main Darksiders games, and in this case serves as a prequel taking place before the three numbered games. The perspective has shifted to an isometric one akin to Diablo, the developer is Airship Syndicate as opposed…

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The Riot Retort
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SJW’s Attack THQ Nordic Over AMA

PatriotPaine

The mob wanted THQ Nordic burned to the ground for holding an AMA on 8chan. The Riot Retort breaks down the manufactured outrage and SJW Patrick Klepek's role in leading the charge.

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Patriot’s Playing: Diablo 3 & Titan Quest

Gary Smith

It's a been a while since I've done one of these posts, but I want to start back writing more and so here we are. This week, I'm playing three games. Of course Destiny 2 is a given for me, and this week I plan on spending a little more time in the Haunted Forest since I didn't really get to into it last week. Outside of Destiny though, this week I'm continuing to play some Diablo 3. i'm playing some on my main character, the Demon Hunter I first began playing on a couple of years ago. I recently…

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