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Take a break from… whatever it is you are doing and join Francis & Lucy as they take a look back at Nintendo’s showing at E3 2021. Rabidly Smash the third dimension and bask in this return to 2D podcasting. Enjoy!...

HANDS-ON: SUPER MAGBOT (SWITCH)     Super Magbot sounds like a game that was backward-engineered from a Game Jam competition. In this environmental platformer Super Magbot must journey across various planets without jumping. That might seem strange for a platformer, where one of the traditional core mechanics is jumping...

The first time I watched the third season of Fargo, upon its initial airing, I was befuddled by the opening scene. Despite being described as Siberia with family restaurants, 2010’s Minnesota is a long way away from an interrogation room in 1988’s East Germany. The scene sees a government...

GLYPH REVIEW (SWITCH)   In this rolling puzzle platformer a robotic dung beetle called Anobi wakes Glyph up from a deep sleep to help aid it in finding the lost Temple City of Aaru. Buried under the sand by a corrupt machine, Glyph must restore the Temple of Aaru...

While consistent in regards to style and quality of animation with the first, the second volume (or third season) of Genndy Tartakovsky’s Star Wars: Clone Wars feels like a completely different show when it comes to storytelling and structure. Having never seen it before I was expecting more of...

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey is incomplete. It’s incomplete, partly, for the same reason Elite Dangerous as a whole is incomplete. There will always be more. Players will always want more. Developers will always want to do more. Just beyond our reach but before the distant horizon, there will be something...

ESSAYS ON EMPATHY REVIEW (PC)   Essays on Empathy is a compilation of 10 short games by Deconstructeam, a Spanish development team whose games have an emphasis on telling great stories through narration instead of bombastic action. If you’re not familiar with Deconstructeam you might have heard of The...

This article contains spoilers for Invincible season one.  At first, I thought Invincible’s first post-credits scene was stupid. The opening episode of Amazon’s superhero animation quickly smash cuts to credits before returning for a post-credits scene (or mid-credits, I guess) mere seconds later, with a full 10-minutes of its...

This article contains spoilers for all ten episodes of The Terror. In 1845 two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, departed from England in search of the fabled Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic but found only disaster and death. After the captain and multiple others died, the icebound...