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Review: 🎮 Forspoken is slick, funny, and nowhere near as bad as you think it is 🎮

Alfre “Frey” Holland is out of chances, homeless, and hopeless when a mysterious bracelet transports her to the mythical kingdom of Athia. Sentient and awakening dormant magic within Frey, she finds the bracelet she dubs “Cuff” inextricably bound to her. Before she can process that, however, the deadly dangers of a barren and corrupted Athia propel Frey into a hero role she doesn’t want with revelations about herself she could never expect. Continue reading Review: 🎮 Forspoken is slick, funny, and nowhere near as bad as you think it is 🎮

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Review: 🎮 Dead Space (Remake), thanks to Motive, gives EA a second chance not to screw up a defining entry in the survival horror genre 🎮

Isaac Clarke is an everyman engineer on a mission to repair a vast Planet Cracker-class ship, the USG Ishimura, only to discover something has gone horribly wrong. The ship’s crew has been slaughtered and Isaac’s beloved partner, Nicole, is lost somewhere on board.

Now alone and armed with only his engineering tools and skills, Isaac races to uncover the nightmarish mystery of what happened aboard the Ishimura in hopes of finding Nicole. Trapped with hostile creatures called Necromorphs, Isaac faces a battle for survival, not only against the escalating terrors of the ship but his own crumbling sanity. Continue reading Review: 🎮 Dead Space (Remake), thanks to Motive, gives EA a second chance not to screw up a defining entry in the survival horror genre 🎮

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Review: 🎮 Alan Wake 2 is undeniable art under threat from its own narrative’s ambitions 🎮

13 years after bestselling writer Alan Wake went missing, a string of ritualistic murders occurs in the town of Bright Falls, Washington. Saga Anderson, an FBI agent, is sent in to investigate the killings, where she finds herself tangled in a supernatural horror story rewriting reality. Continue reading Review: 🎮 Alan Wake 2 is undeniable art under threat from its own narrative’s ambitions 🎮

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Review: 🎮 Alan Wake’s light can’t quite pierce the darkness of its age, but its shining narrative exudes a bright future 🎮

Troubled author Alan Wake embarks on a desperate search for his missing wife, Alice. Following her mysterious disappearance from the Pacific Northwest town of Bright Falls, he discovers pages of a horror story he has supposedly written, but he has no memory of. Wake is soon forced to question his sanity, as page by page, the story comes true before his eyes: a hostile presence of supernatural darkness is taking over everyone it finds, turning them against him.

He has no choice but to confront the forces of darkness armed only with his flashlight, a handgun and what remains of his shredded mind. His nightmarish journey to find answers to the mind-bending mystery he faces will lead him into the terrifying depths of the night. Continue reading Review: 🎮 Alan Wake’s light can’t quite pierce the darkness of its age, but its shining narrative exudes a bright future 🎮

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Review: 🎮 Dead Space is arguably the best sci-fi horror game even over a decade from its release 🎮

Only the dead survive…

A massive deep-space mining ship, the USG Ishimura, goes dark after unearthing a strange artifact on a distant planet. Engineer Isaac Clarke embarks on the repair mission, only to uncover a nightmarish blood bath — the ship’s crew horribly slaughtered and infected by alien scourge. Continue reading Review: 🎮 Dead Space is arguably the best sci-fi horror game even over a decade from its release 🎮

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