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It’s that time of year again – time for our recommendations for your Holiday Gift Guides to help you quickly and easily find the perfect gift for the gamer on your holiday shopping list! Today, we are looking at the best gaming peripherals of the year – we’ve got you covered for keyboards, mice, headsets and microphones! Whether your gamer is looking to just get started or is upgrading to a full streaming setup, there’s sure to be something on…

How bad - or good for that matter - can a game about slapping Romans be? Well, if you decide to play Asterix & Obelix: Slap Them All! today you will be pleasantly surprised. While simple on the surface, the game brings along tons of humor, some decent depth in the combat, and a ton of levels to enjoy. 

Playmobil has always been a popular toy in the Roffel household, and my kids have gone through phases. There was the city phase, where they couldn't get enough of firefighters, doctors, construction workers and more. Then they moved onto the pirate phase, and I was constantly tiptoeing around pirate swords and treasure chests littered across my basement floor. With all of these toys, however, there has been on disconnect - my three year old. While the figures themselves are easy enough to play with, he cannot enjoy the finer pieces included in these sets ...

Earlier this fall, we took at look at the iRobot Roomba j7+, and despite a few small quirks, really liked the way the robot easily made itself a part of our daily habits around the house. And it's still going strong just a few weeks later, and shocker - we have little to complain about.

There have been a number of fantastic farming simulation and crafting games published this year across all consoles, and we've rounded up a few of our favourites! Check out our top picks for this holiday season for games that will have you farming, crafting, and even defeating enemies on the open field!

When the Super Mario 35th Anniversary Game and Watch released last year, you can add my name to the group of folks who said, “Why do I need a Game and Watch?” And while I understand that these items should be looked at as more a collectors item than actual game machine, I could help but want both. So I passed. This year, to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of the Legend of Zelda, Nintendo of Canada was nice enough to…

Our full review of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond isn’t ready yet but we thought we’d talk more about the game. Where are we? Is the game still good? We will try not to give too many spoilers in this review-in-progress! Note: none of the pictures here are from the area hinted at in the article. I feel like throwing my Nintendo Switch. Pokémon Brilliant Diamond has had some hard battles here and there, but mostly, I didn’t find it too challenging…

When we talk about board games, for years people would assume you were getting friends together to play Monopoly, Scrabble, The Game of Life, or something like that. Two games came onto the marketplace that have now entered that conversation, those being Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne. Both games have their intended audiences, and unfortunately that isn't children. It wasn't until development teams familiar with both titles decided to put together kids versions of these board game giants, and they both are magnificent. Let's take a look at why these are ...

With limited time to play and review games, there are a number of things that can make me put down a review build of a title and walk away. One of those things is when a game just cannot seem to get out of it's own way and let players...play! And that was almost the case with Grow: Song of the Evertree, and if it wasn't for my love of these style of games - Hello Harvest Moon and Story of Seasons! - I probably would have quit within the first 2 hours. Fortunately for me, I didn't!

Before We Leave, a fun and deep city builder from Team 17 lands on Xbox today, and I have been playing it for the better part of a week. And I'll admit off the top that I was really skeptical of how this game would run on console. When it comes to strategy games on console, only two have really worked in my opinion: Planet Coaster (which I played on the PlayStation 5), and Two Point Hospital (which I played on Nintendo Switch). So the question became - could I find a equally fun experience on Xbox and love it? Let's take a look.