Author: Matias Tautimez
A former journalist from Las Vegas and the occasional dabbler in the ancient and mystic arts of professional wrestling. Matias is often found writing, running TTRPGs with a bunch of weirdos, and justifying his addiction to video games by writing reviews. Any resemblance to the masked man known as El Zitro is purely coincidental.
Naheulbeuk’s Dungeon Master Preview: Managing Monsters for Minimum Wage
We've all done the grind: meet at a tavern, get your quest, destroy the dungeon. But with Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master, it's time to to be a villain! Lay out a devious dungeon and fill it with traps fit to kill any adventurers bold enough to...
Star Trek Resurgence Review: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations (PC)
If you've ever wanted to handle a phaser, sit in the captain's chair, or pilot a shuttle, I've got some good news for you. Star Trek Resurgence is here to pull you into a deep, very trekkie narrative. Examine clues, speak with people, and m...
DREDGE Review: A Mariner’s Melancholic Melody (PC)
The winds of Eldritch horrors blow in DREDGE. Take your trawler onto the open sea seeking fortune and answers. Improve your ship, venture into dangerous waters, and uncover the mystery surrounding the Lovecraftian fog that permeates the wor...
Alchemist: The Potion Monger Preview – Potions for Fun and Profit
If you've ever had the urge to scour the land for ingredients, grind and brew them into fine potions, and explore a fantasy landscape, well, you're in good company. The latest chance to live that fantasy arrives later this year in the form ...
Dungeon Alchemist Review: Bringing Your Campaign to Life
Gather round the table, brave adventurers, it's time to roll the dice. Dungeon Alchemist is here to help any Dungeon Master craft beautiful, detailed maps for their players to explore. With AI filling in the gaps, it promises to be more use...
Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator Review: Medieval Maladies Mended With Magical Mixtures (PC)
A cauldron, a mortar and pestle, and a dream. Potion Craft drops you into the shoes of an alchemist, letting you mix ingredients and haggle with customers. With a medieval pastiche, Potion Craft offers a lot of fun for those who like to get...
Potionomics Review: Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble (PC)
Heroes and adventurers get all the good press. Saving princesses, slaying dragons, killing exactly five slimes and collecting twelve rat pelts. But the true backbone of fantasy society are the craftsmen. In Potionomics you do the real work ...
Oddworld: Soulstorm – Oddtimized Edition Review – Quite the Odd Mess (Switch)
The second chapter in the Oddworld franchise just hit the Nintendo Switch. Oddworld: Soulstorm - Oddtimized Edition has a lot to live up to, with a pedigree of games that delighted previous console generations. Does this Switch port stand p...
Wayward Strand Review: Listen to My Story (PC)
A unique title from developer ghost pattern, Wayward Strand is less a game to be played and beaten than an experience to behold. A gorgeous world filled with amazingly rich characters awaits you in a floating airship turned hospital. Time p...
Construction Simulator Review: Let’s Get to Work (PC)
Fire up your CATs and get ready to dig, haul, pour, and lift. Your town needs revitalizing and with the help of ol' Hape, you're just the person for the job. Use real-life machine brands to take on complex jobs and bring the town back to li...
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: Growing up… in Spaaace! (PC)
Being a teenager has never been easy, but when you have to balance school, a social life, and romance with feeding your colony, exploring an alien planet, and protecting everyone from attacks by strange and grotesque aliens, things can get...
There’s Hope for Remakes and Remasters in Gaming
With remasters and reboots becoming more and more common in gaming there’s an understandable hesitance when developers pull your old favorites back out of the toy box. But games like Final Fantasy 7 Remake show there's hope that it's possib...