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INT: THE DINING HALL OF CASTLE GRUYERE, CHEESE MOUNTAIN The lights were bright and cheery in the famed dining hall of Castle Gruyere, the mood festive, a veritable menagerie of the finest dorks, dudes, dudettes, cryptid horrors, stacked raccoons wearing a big skin suit, and the entire contents of a clown car, including rather inexplicably the car itself vaping nonstop and pounding down Coca Cola all in attendance for what would certainly be yet another magnificent feast. Rising from the...

“Hey Octopus, what’s the best thing to play with your friends?” No one has ever asked me this, but don’t worry, I’ll answer it anyway; tabletop RPGs. Colloquially referred to by the ‘TTRPG’ abbreviation, these are games of collaborative storytelling that combine structured rulesets, often involving dice, with elements of make believe and ‘theater of the mind’ that sees players create their own characters to do random nonsense with. They meld these elements to let players make their own fun...

Megaman has had an illustrious career over the past three decades, spanning a total of 38 mainline games (Yes, I counted them) spread across 2 timelines, at least 4 genres and countless game systems. If you thought it was hard enough to keep track of every Kingdom Hearts game due to the sporadic console releases back in the day, then you had your work cutout for you with Megaman. But with so many games, some are bound to be more polished or more fun than others. Today we’re ranking the ten...

We’re finally back. We’re back on the path of the licensed Marvel games after a bit of a ‘detour’ (read: I couldn’t take any more terrible Marvel games) where I played some things that were actually good; and I do say, it was fantastic. But like death, taxes and the existential dread of my own mortality, I can never truly escape the call of the retro Marvel game and so here we are. The last two articles (Part One and Part Two) saw us encounter some real opponents of quality and, of course...

You have heard me gosh over Deus Ex for as long as I have been a member of this site. I'm sure it drove some of you nuts. But I could never quite put my finger on why that was... on why I couldn't stop recommending this 24-year-old game to anyone who would listen. Well, that --hopefully-- ends now. This isn't going to be a review, but a sort of love letter to a game that changed my entire understanding on what gaming is and should be. I don't expect it to make a lot of sense, but I hope...