XY Game Review

Okay, I need to talk about Baldur’s Gate 3. Like, really talk about it. Because this game is something else. When it dropped in August 2023, I thought “okay, another D&D game, probably solid...

February 2022. Elden Ring drops. And suddenly everyone—not just Souls fans—is talking about this weird Japanese game where you die a lot. Within weeks, it’s sold millions of copies, won basically every Game of...

Okay, real talk: I was skeptical about Marvel Snap at first. Another mobile card game? In 2022? Come on. But then I downloaded it, played my first match, and… I may have deleted it...

Let me tell you something about Super Mario. Even if you’ve never touched a video game in your life, you know who Mario is. That little guy with the red cap? He’s appeared in...

Let me paint you a picture: You’re crouched behind a broken wall in the dark. You can hear your heartbeat pounding in your ears. Actually, wait—that’s not your heartbeat. That’s the Killer getting closer....

So March 2017. Nintendo drops Breath of the Wild, and suddenly every open-world game that came after it looks at itself in the mirror and asks some hard questions. That’s not an exaggeration—Ubisoft, Bethesda,...

Okay, so Slay the Spire. If you’ve been anywhere near the indie game scene since 2019, you’ve heard this name. The original game—developed by MegaCrit, published by Humble Games—basically invented a genre. Not exaggerating....

So here’s a fun party trick: ask anyone in the world to do the “Tetris hand gesture”—the one where you rotate your hands like you’re spinning falling blocks. They’ll know it. They’ll do it....

Believe it or not, EA dropped Apex Legends in February 2019 with absolutely zero marketing. No trailer, no hype campaign, no “pre-order now” — just a surprise launch. 25 million players in a week....

My nephew is eleven. Last Christmas, I asked him what he wanted, and he said “Robux.” I had no idea what that was. He looked at me like I’d just asked what the internet...