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At the end of last year, I wrote about my most anticipated games of 2025 and South of Midnight was number one on the list. That hasn’t changed! Why am I so excited about this game?! Let’s talk about it. South of Midnight is brand new IP: a single player action/adventure game set in the south with a black female protagonist, mystical creatures and music inspired by the South. This game looks and sounds unlike any other game. I’ve seen…

The rumour is that Xbox’s next console will be a PC in a “TV-friendly shell”.  It’s a gamble, and one that probably won’t pay off in any kind of big way. The good news is that Microsoft probably don’t expect it to, so everything will be built with that in mind. It’s been a long-standing rumour, now stood up by Jez Corden. It’s an interesting idea, but one that fans will be more excited by than the general public. The…

Atomfall will be coming out later this month on Game Pass and it looks like the Fallout-like game that we all need right now. Let’s talk about this cool looking game! Atomfall is coming out on March 27th, 2025. It will be Day One on Game Pass. Atomfall is set in post-war Britian in a town thats been hit with a mysterious Nuclear disaster. The player is set with finding out what happened to the local nuclear power station. They’ll…

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is coming out later next month, April, and we’re starting to see more and more footage of it. The following is the first in a weekly series of character trailers for the game. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 comes out on April 24th, 2025 for Xbox Series S/X (Game Pass), PS5, and PC. The game is a turn-based rpg by French developer Sandfall Interactive. It will be available Day One on Game Pass. In the first of…

It’s the classic response each time someone mentions loving Final Fantasy VII. “Wait until you try Final Fantasy VI,” someone will inevitably say. “Makes VII look amateur.” And I’ve written that as politely as possible. I’ve seen too many hipster rants about the beauty of the SNES JRPG classics, and the message is simple. If you came in with the PlayStation games, you’ve missed out. There’s always been a smugness to the discourse. Oh, you think THAT is good? And…

Avowed has been out for a little bit on Game Pass and I’ve been checking it out. How is the game so far? Is it the next Skyrim? Let’s talk about it! I’ve been checking out Avowed on my Xbox Series S via Game Pass lately and here are my thoughts so far. Avowed is a pretty good game. Its not exactly Skyrim, you can’t attack locals or go everywhere and see everything. The game is pretty open but it…

There have been a lot of op-ed pieces lately about the end of the console wars. With Xbox finding their own way and Sony and Nintendo representing different parts of the industry, it seems there’s now little reason to compare the big three. We’ll do it anyway though, eh? I started a segment on how the gaming industry will look very different in five years. But the reality – for those not deep in the trenches – is that the…

Two Point Museum is a delightful, interactive addition to the Two Point Studios catalog, having built itself a niche for quirkiness and accessibility-focused management sim design. It takes players off on a trip into the bizarre realm of curating a museum, where more emphasis is placed on building experience and less on putting things on the ground. Rather, it’s an odyssey of the weird and the whimsical, a challenge to establishing and operating a system of museums that are both…

There’s been a lot of discussion lately around Tomb Raider, in part thanks to the wonderful re-releases by Aspyr. But there’s an issue that these remasters highlight: much of what we love about these classics has been left behind. I’m not going to spend the next 450 words harking back to the “better” days of discourse around whether you can get Lara naked or not using Xploder cheats. The gaming world got bigger, and so Lara had to grow too.…

If you’ve wanted to get your hands on Two Point Museum ahead of its official launch next week, consider picking up the Explorers Edition which comes with a bunch of goodies, including 5 days early access! There is a lot more here than you might think, so let’s dive right in! The Explorers Edition of Two Point Museum is offering up a ton of goodies for just a few more dollars than the basic game. Yes, 5 days early access…