Shardpunk: Verminfall is an impressive label that attempts to check several pseudo-cultural reference boxes at once. The “punk” evokes retro-futurism; its prefix, “shard”, serves to…

Free-form sci-fi combat/trading simulators are the rarest breed of games. You can practically count good ones using one hand, and even that seems like an…

Dredging is the excavation of material from a water environment, usually the removal of sediments and debris from the bottom of lakes, rivers, harbors, and…

Contrary to the other forms of art, perfection in gaming is a fleeting thing, prone to aging badly. Nobody would dare suggest improvements to Mozart’s…

Suppose you are looking to spice up the early spring with a fantasy rogue-lite game, which one would you pick? A friend asked me that…

It has been roughly a decade since Company of Heroes 2. The real-time strategy genre didn’t exactly thrive back then, but now it’s objectively dead….

It still perplexes me that the masochistic experience of Soulsborne games has become a global phenomenon played by millions, instead of staying a niche product…

Since the first announcement teaser from 2017, Atomic Heart became “that uncanny soviet game” people loved to speculate about. The clips showed plenty of stuff…

In an unexpected move, during the Nintendo Direct showcase, the company acknowledged the existence of Metroid Prime Remastered and announced its immediate launch. This beloved…

My father had a friend who worked for an old-school book publishing agency specialized in esothery and all sorts of new age faux-scientific hogwash. As…

Dead Space (2008) was the game that briefly made me see Electronic Arts in a different light. The company that acquired then killed some of…

The original Colossal Cave Adventure is one of the oldest examples of digital interactive fiction. In 1976, most civilians used the term “electronic brain” while…

The best thing I can say about Forspoken is that it isn’t nearly as bad as I thought it will be. After trying that half-assed…

If you exist in a pre-millennial cultural plane, you might not know about the most successful manga of all time. The numbers that One Piece…

A tiny village in the middle of a cursed forest, full of people abiding by specific rules to ward off the supernatural threat and stay…

World War 3 is a free2play multiplayer FPS that sits somewhere between the callous casualness of Call of Duty and the hard-core ruggedness of Rising…

I must admit that I never watched Rick and Morty. A couple of cringey hipsters from my old job enthusiastically talked about it all the…

A potential solution to all Earth’s problems could be just giving up on it and colonizing another world. We’ll need a big colony ship, a…

Almost exclusively, Warhammer 40K games are about indulging the Space Marine power fantasy, slicing and boltering the xenos, mutants, and heretics by the bushel. Playing…

You probably heard about recent developments in the field of AI-assisted image generation and processing. User inputs textual description, Skynet churns out incredible images, and…