Review: 📚 Out of the Ashes is a juicy collision of truth and lies 📚

When she was thirteen years old, Samantha Newsom’s family was murdered and their Catskills farmhouse set ablaze in an unsolved crime that left nothing behind but ashes.

Twenty-two years later, Sam is pulled back to her hometown of Carney, New York, under the shadows of the grim tragedy she’s never forgotten or forgiven. Authorities mishandled the evidence, false rumours were seeded about her family, suspects yielded nothing, and the case went cold. Not anymore. Investigator Travis Meacham has been assigned to the case, and he has news for Sam: a prison inmate has come forward with a shocking admission. Sam’s baby sister, presumed dead in the fire, made it out of the house that night.

It’s not the only reveal that upends everything Sam thinks she knows about the crime and her family. But Carney protects its secrets. And this time, Sam might not be able to escape the town alive. Continue reading Review: 📚 Out of the Ashes is a juicy collision of truth and lies 📚

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 🎮

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 🎮

Review: 🎮 Phantom Liberty puts spy thrillers on notice 🎮

V receives a call from the mysterious Songbird who promises she can save V’s life. Running out of time and options, V can’t refuse, travelling to the city within Night City of Dogtown. If Night City stands ready to chew you up and spit you out, Dogtown stands ready to show it how true torture is done.
V knows they’re grasping at straws, but they can’t even begin to fathom the lair of secrets and lies they’re about to enter: from saving the President to rogue AIs beyond the Blackwall.
Being a merc in Night City is one thing, but espionage and shadows might be too much for V to handle, and all for a cure that might not even exist… Continue reading Review: 🎮 Phantom Liberty puts spy thrillers on notice 🎮

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 🎮