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AoE4: Small Steps
Earlier this month, I played through the Yue Fei’s Legacy DLC for Age of Empires IV. I’ve had a lot of criticism for AoE4’s direction since launch and had all but lost hope for the game, but I enjoyed...
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Retro Review: His Dark Materials
I’m always debating with myself how old something has to be before I give it the “retro” tag. If I had to do it all over again, I probably wouldn’t have a separate category for non-current reviews, but...
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Age of Empires: DLC Catch Up and 2026 News
I recently took a week or so break from New World to catch up on some more Age of Empires II content, and no sooner had I finished that than Microsoft dumped a whole bunch of news about the crazy...
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Belated Road 96 Appreciation
A few weeks ago, I played the demo for Tides of Tomorrow, the upcoming game from the team behind Road 96. Enjoyed it, will likely buy the full version at launch. That got me nostalgic over Road 96, so...
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Review: War of the Rohirrim
I was never quite sure what to think about the Lord of the Rings anime film War of the Rohirrim. With lukewarm reviews, I waffled on whether to bother seeing it in the theatre, and by the time I...
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Out of the Comfort Zone: Frieren and Expedition 33
There are two pieces of media I’d like to discuss today. There’s no real connection between them, except that they’re both a bit outside my usual wheelhouse in terms of interests, but that’s a good...
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Deliverance of Dragons Review and Final Thoughts on the Dragon Prophecy Trilogy
Over a decade ago, I read the first book of the Dragon Prophecy trilogy. It was a prequel to the Obsidian trilogy, a series I’d loved when I was a teenager. There was a long wait until the second book,...
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Age of Mythology: Heavenly Spear Impressions
After the many faceplants of Age of Mythology: Retold, I wasn’t feeling terribly enthusiastic about the Japanese-themed Heavenly Spear expansion, but I was pleasantly surprised. It’s not perfect, but...
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Unknown 9: Awakening Review
Unknown 9: Awakening first came to my attention when I saw the trailer at Summer Games Fest while waiting for the New World: Aeternum announcement. It looked interesting, but I would come to find the...
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WoW: Beyond Death
I’m currently knee deep in The War Within, but before it launched, I took a few weeks to catch up on what I’d missed in World of Warcraft by running through all the story content of Shadowlands (minus...
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Thoughts on Star Trek: Prodigy’s Second Season
I recently got done watching the second season of Star Trek: Prodigy, the franchise’s entry into the realm of children’s cartoons. Despite my ambivalence towards kids’ media and disdain for the current...
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Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden Review
I meant to write this several weeks ago when I actually finished playing Don’t Nod’s latest, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, but I’ve had a dearth of spoons to spare. Still, I didn’t want to go without...
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Thoughts on Halo’s Bizarre Second Season
I was sure I had posted about the Halo TV series when the first season aired, but I can’t find the post now, so presumably it was yet another thing I’ve let fall through the cracks recently. The short...
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Review: This Bed We Made
Decided to do a good old-fashioned numbered review for this one. By gar, it’s been a while! For Christmas this year a friend got narrative mystery game This Bed We Made, which I only realized after I...
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Final Thoughts on Disenchantment
Disenchantment has always been a bit of a divisive show. While I generally count myself as a fan, I do sympathize with a lot of its critics. It is a very strange, inconsistent series. It’s definitely...
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Gaming Round-Up: Summer Sale Aftermath
Thanks to the recent Steam sale, I’ve blitzed through quite a few games recently. I’ll just go through them all real quick… or as quick as someone as long-winded as me is gonna get, anyway. Harmony:...
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Warrior Nun Deserves Another Season
Thanks to the long gap between seasons and a total lack of promotion from Netflix, there’s been a bit of a pall hanging over the second season of Warrior Nun. There’s this perception that it’s a dead...
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Rings of Power Is Off to a Poor Start
I had a lot of skepticism going into Amazon’s new Lord of the Rings series, The Rings of Power, based on some truly bizarre plot leaks (at least some of which have now been confirmed) and a lot of...
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The Inexplicable, Irredeemable Disaster of Picard’s Second Season
I debated whether or not I should even write this post. Partly because I try not to be too negative in what I write (I know it doesn’t always seem that way), and partly because fully covering...
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Star Trek: Prodigy Is Shockingly Good
I have not, as a rule, been terribly impressed with the newer crop of Star Trek shows. Discovery starting out appallingly bad, and after years of improvement has only clawed its way to “watchable, just...
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