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A screenshot from Slay the Princess with a bare black and white room except for a doorway, a dagger in the center, and a young woman in a dress and tiara chained and kneeling on the floor

Slay the Princess Again and Again and Again

By Phil Hoare • April 26th, 2024

Do I want to watch the gruesome deaths in a film such as Saw? Not particularly, but I won’t be beaten by the film either

This Mortal Coyle

KJ from Life After Magic, a cool-looking person with a punky bleach-blond haircut (replete with purple streak) a great 'fit, and excellent tattoos. They intimidate me.

KJ from Life After Magic

By Deirdre Coyle • July 28th, 2023

“There’s a bunch of different subcultures under the punk and goth umbrellas. Doesn’t always have to be about wearing black and being angry.”

Spirit Hunter: NG

By Gingy Gibson • August 10th, 2022

Losing your team has weight and pain because you had time to develop attachments to this confused and scared band of kids. The game makes you care before it brings down the ax; you haven’t lost a random Joe, you lost people that mattered. It’s a tactic designed to hurt, and it works.

Life Is Strange: Artificial Colors

By Ruth Cassidy • July 13th, 2022

Characters’ quirks and quips are endearing, but they never feel like more than the LARP versions of themselves: there to give information or resources, or be acted upon.

Gingy’s Corner

A cast shot of the crew from Ghostwire Tokyo: Prelude, including detective fingerguns, young headache, teenager and child, and thinking guy

Ghostwire: Tokyo – Prelude – Some Half-Baked Bread to Start

By Gingy Gibson • June 8th, 2022

Ghostwire: Tokyo – Prelude is an appetizer that fails to entice players to return for the main course.

The cover for Citizen Sleeper, featuring the robot Sleeper looking over a space station washed in starlight and some vehicles flying around

Conversation In The Ruins Of Interplanetary Capitalism

By Ruth Cassidy • June 3rd, 2022

An interview with Gareth Damian Martin about Citizen Sleeper, and its bodies

In a dimly lit library, next to an open book and a blood-splattered chair, a severed arm holds a pen

Spirit Hunter: Death Mark

By Gingy Gibson • May 31st, 2022

Spirit Hunter: Death Mark is a wonderfully spooky and unsettling ghost story.

An illustrataed girl with blue hair and blue eyes.

Speak Lies

By Gingy Gibson • January 14th, 2022

Speak Lies is a story about a probably cursed school and the band of students investigating its mysteries; one of which is you, the player.

Huniepop 2

By Gingy Gibson • February 26th, 2021

A disappointing sequel actively working to quash any joy the player may attempt to derive from it.

Hashihime of the Old Book Town

By Gingy Gibson • August 21st, 2020

Oh, how I relish in the familiarity of old monsters.

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