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It's hard to believe that Sam Raimi's Evil Dead franchise is over four decades old. Despite that, it's only had four instalments, which is much less than other long-running iconic horror franchises. A whopping ten years after Fede Álvarez's Evil Dead remake comes Lee Cronin's Evil Dead Rise, the fifth entry in the franchise. Groovy Evil Dead...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), Nintendo Switch Genre: Strategy If you're a fan of tactical deckbuilding games like Slay the Spire, Banner of Ruin, and Monster Train, then Wildfrost may be the game for you. Developed by Deadpan Games and Gaziter, and published by Chucklefish, Wildfrost is set in a world that's been overrun by an endless win...
HBO has quite a win streak with many of its drama and comedies like Hacks and White Lotus. You can add the 2016 show Barry in the mix, now in its fourth and final season. The show where a hitman turns to acting to change his nature, or at least attempts to, is now at its final junction. There's only so much writer and director Bill Hader (who al...
When the trailer for Renfield was first released, many (including me) were enthralled by the idea of Nicolas Cage as Count Dracula. Let me tell you this; he's definitely the highlight of the movie. Director Chris McKay manages to balance horror and campiness in Renfield, so much so that Nicolas Cage's Dracula is both scary and funny at the same tim...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), PS5, Xbox Series X | S Genre: First-person shooter Crime Boss Rockay City is a game that wears many hats. It's a first-person shooter that takes place in a digital city full of crime and celebrity cameos. Imagine being at a party where everyone's trying to outdo each other with snappy one-liners, except nobod...
Platforms: PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S Genre: Visual Novel, Fantasy, Horror, Myth, Legends, Malaysian/Southeast Asian Back in 2020, Malaysia-based developer Persona Theory Games burst into the games industry with their spicy debut game, Fires At Midnight, a visual novel that covered controversial and mature subject matter that most other deve...
If you are looking for a drama biopic about a shoe company that got big because it made one big and risky bet with then-up-and-coming basketball player Michael Jordan, you'll be hard-pressed not to watch Air. Directed by Ben Affleck (who also stars in the film as Nike co-founder Phil Knight), the film centres on the person who orchestrated the f...
Platforms: PC Genre: Beat-Em-Up, Adventure, Action RPG, School It's been almost two decades (!) since the release of Rockstar Games' Bully game. However, perhaps due to the controversial nature of the game, the genre (action adventure or open-world beat-em-up games in school settings) hasn't really sparked many copycats or clones like GTA has. ...
Platforms: PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, PS VR2, Meta Quest 2, PC Genre: Adventure, First-person, Sci-Fi, Puzzles Once in a while, it's nice to be genuinely surprised and get immersed in a game's story and characters. The Last Worker from developers Oiffy and Wolf & Wood Interactive is one of those games. It's an immersive narrat...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), PS4, PS5, Xbox Series, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Genre: Cinematic platformer brought back from the 90s You have to thank folks like Jordan Mechner, Paul Cuisset, and Éric Chahi for introducing cinematic experiences in the 90s era of gaming. Not only do you have lavish artwork and animation to admire, but als...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), PS5, Xbox Series X | S, PS4 Genre: Third-person survival horror Resident Evil 4 is a classic that's been around for 18 years and just got a jaw-dropping makeover. If you're not familiar with it, the game follows Leon S. Kennedy, a suave government agent on a mission to rescue the President's daughter from a c...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), Netflix Genre: Reverse Building Simulation Without The Preaching Developer Free Lives are taking quite a turn with its new simulation title Terra Nil. The jump from 2D action title Broforce and Genital Jousting (yes, THAT'S a thing), to a game where you build up forests and burn them to create the perfect eco...
The book A Man Called Ove is about a grumpy person with a dark backstory who ends up getting his cold heart melted by his new neighbours, all while attempting to off his own life. It's not exactly a new tale but it's one worth retelling in cinema form for the sake of being a crowd-pleaser drama-comedy hybrid. However, these kinds of movie adaptatio...
The media empire is sure as hell a fast-paced and cutthroat business. Whether it's global news coverage or even video games and entertainment, the lifestyle of moguls and higher-ups who run these companies have to fight internally as much as externally and against many other rivals vying for the same seat of power and relevance. So it's no surprise...
After years of suffering through terrible movie adaptations based on the most popular tabletop game out there -Dungeons & Dragons, not Magic: The Gathering- we finally have a noteworthy adaptation made by a production, writing, and directing crew who knows what they're doing. They understand that they have to make a movie that's entertaining an...
John Wick: Chapter 4 has no goddamn right to be this stylish and action-packed while still maintaining a steady stream of world-building information as its story progresses. And yet here we are. John Wick: Chapter 4 (henceforth referred to as JW4 for brevity's sake) picks almost immediately after John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum. A...
A newbie to the VR gaming ring, the newly-released Pico 4 is definitely going up against mainstay competitors like the Oculus Quest 2 or even the newly-released PSVR 2, in terms of wow factor, games, and tech. After checking out the device for a good number of days, it's safe to say that ByteDance's wireless and incredibly accessible proverbial ...
Platforms: PS4, PS5, PC Genre: Adventure, Open-World, Sandbox, Third-Person Tchia was originally announced back in 2020 during The Game Awards from Awaceb, a developer from New Caledonia, an island located in the Pacific Ocean. Courtesy of publisher Kepler Interactive, I spent some time with a demo for the survival adventure title. What is T...
Now that we've already covered the origins of Shazam in the 2019 movie, we don't have to sit through all that set-up and can get on straight to the good stuff. Shazam Fury Of The Gods brings back Billy Batson and his Shazam family (or Shazamily), but with the DC Universe about to be rebooted soon, is the movie good enough to watch on its own? Read ...
Platform(s): PS5 (version played), PS4, PC, Nintendo Switch Genre: 90s JRPG with eight protagonists, tailored for a 2023 audience If you're looking for an epic JRPG experience, you don't have to wait until Final Fantasy XVI to arrive this June. Instead, you should spend way more time with the gorgeous-looking-and-epic-sounding Octopath Traveler...
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