Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is coming out on April 5th, 2022. Not too long now! Here’s a brand new look at the game! Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga will be out very soon. The newest video shows off the huge galaxy that the developers have created for the game. Its pretty amazing! The graphics look great and its looks like we’ll be doing a lot of exploring. The developers highlight some of the many side missions, some…
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More Thoughts From Me Special Edition: Cowabunga! What A State of Play
Playstation had a State of Play video today. You can check it out below and then please come back here for my thoughts on it. Oh dude! COWABUNGA! Before I get to THAT announcement, let me back track a little bit. I admit when I first saw Capcom’s new game, I thought it might be a new Dino Crisis. Yes, I know there were no mechs in the original Dino Crisis, but you never know. Instead it was a brand…
Read MoreFixing Elden Ring and its Unfathomableness
There were no 15 minutes introductory cutscenes. There’s no quest log or diary of recent dialogue. Hell, there isn’t even a Sonic the Hedghog-esque voice actor saying “previously on…” every time I load. I have no idea what’s happening in Elden Ring – and I love it. I mean, hey, I like being beaten over the head with issues as much as the next guy. I’m sure those giants I’ve killed over and over are Somalian pirates or something. Or…
Read MoreState of Play Announced for March 9th
A brand new Playstation State of Play video has been announced for Wednesday, March 9th, 2022. We have some details below. A new State of Play will air at 2 PM PT on March 9th, 2022. It will be 20 minutes long and feature PS4 and PS5 ” first looks and updates, with a special focus on games coming from our Japan publishers.” As a big fan of Japanese games, this makes me pretty excited. I’m hoping that this could…
Read MoreBeyond the Horizon: Does Sony need to Shake Things Up?
Horizon appeared. It reviewed very well. It sold pretty well. And it disappeared into the shadow of Elden Ring. Forums throughout the interest are dissecting the new king of the open world to the point of complete joylessness, for better or for worse. And Horizon Forbidden West has had to take a quiet second place. It’s important here to say this isn’t an article about Horizon’s quality, or even about its quality next to Elden Ring. This is an article…
Read MoreSocial Media (in general) as a 2022 Influencer
Influencers are great - in fact, I've worked to build a brand outside of GamesReviews.com to attempt and achieve that to some extent. But I'm finding more and more that one single person isn't generally convincing me of making a purchase. Instead, I'm finding the growing communities on Twitter - as toxic as it can be - as a driving force behind whether or not I play games. And Elden Ring is a great example of this.
Read MoreThe Elden Ring Hype Is Real
Occasionally a game will come out that helps define a generation. Ocarina of Time. Metal Gear Solid 2. The Last of Us. Red Dead Redemption 2. And now, perhaps, we can add Elden Ring to that list. I say perhaps because I haven’t played it yet. I wasn’t planning to play it for some time. Trailers and discussions have been ignored… But today the Metacritic score got to me and I loaded up my Amazon account and purchased the launch…
Read MorePlayStation Plus games for March: Ark: Survival Evolved, Team Sonic Racing, Ghostrunner
The March PlayStation Plus lineup will test your survival, racing and combat skills in equal measure. Prove you’ve got what it takes to survive a deadly island wilderness in Ark: Survival Evolved, outpace the competition in Team Sonic Racing and sharpen your reflexes in cyberpunk first-person adventure Ghostrunner. And in addition to those titles, team up and take on fearsome, supernatural foes in bonus game Ghost of Tsushima: Legends, which joins the lineup this month. All games will be available…
Read MoreEASports FIFA and Canada’s Rise in Soccer (Football) Rankings
A few years ago, when EA Sports added the women's national teams to FIFA, I often enjoyed trotting out Team Canada and going to work. As one of the better clubs in the world, it was fun to not only cheer for them in real life, but to play with them as well in FIFA. On the men's side...it's never been that way. I've always cheered for the Netherlands when the EURO Cup or World Cup come around, and always played as the Netherlands in FIFA. When FIFA 23 launches this fall with a FIFA World Cup mode, I can finally play as....Canada?
Read MoreHorizon Forbidden West: What’s In a Review Score?
Horizon Forbidden West has come and gone, and it’s apparently unplayable. It has only an 88 on Metacritic. Call Sony, tell them to shut it all down. Nope, not just PlayStation. Shut it ALL down. Don’t take my word for it either. Go take a look on Twitter, or on the regular gaming forums. People are up in arms because – horrors of horrors – Forbidden West didn’t score above a 90. It didn’t score above Forza Horizon. It BARELY…
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