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Awhile back, some friends of mine were telling me about a cool sim game that they were playing on PC. It was called Dinkum and they liked it a lot. I wished that it was on the Switch. Finally, during the recent Direct, Dinkum was announced for Switch and a… Read more »

I have been accused of not having issues with the board games I review, and that I’d prefer to make designers and publishers happy as opposed to giving honest opinions about the games I play. While I generally recommend almost everything I review, it’s for one specific reason: I generally… Read more »

One of the biggest surprises of Friday’s Nintendo Direct was that Donkey Kong Bananza was getting paid DLC. Not only that but it actually came out on Friday too. I managed to pick it up and have some impressions of it so far. When I saw that Donkey Kong Bananza… Read more »

There were many opportunities to walk down memory lane this fall at PAX West 2025, but one of my favorites was the demo of Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted.  I loved the feeling of nostalgia, balanced with the remastered HD graphics, integration of features from across different platforms…. And to be… Read more »

When I visited the Ravensburger booth at GenCon 2025, the representative walked me through all the major titles coming from the growing publisher. Of course we all know about Disney Lorcana and the Horrified series, but the one game she sent me home with was probably my favorite. The simplicity… Read more »

A long time ago on consoles far far away….a game came out that was set in the Star Wars universe. It was called Star Wars Outlaws. Nintendo fans could only dream about it. That is until, somehow, the Switch 2 appeared! Then Ubisoft made a version of the game for… Read more »

Thunder Road Vendetta was a game I have avoided for years because I always had the belief that, “I don’t like racing games.” Post GenCon 2025, after receiving the Maximum Chrome version of the game from Restoration Games for review, and I am a changed man: Thunder Road Vendetta is… Read more »

I think a lot of people were hoping that Nintendo would announce another Mario sports title during today’s Nintendo Direct, but if you had asked me to rank the sports I thought would be featured, a brand new Mario Tennis game would have been at the bottom of that list.… Read more »

Today Nintendo had a Direct. It was “roughly” a 60 minute Direct. It went a little bit over an hour. I have some thoughts on the Direct: the Mario of it all, the shocks, and of course some disappointment. Here we gooooo. Can we just talk about Mario first? I… Read more »

A few days ago I wrote about Yokohama Duel and how crunchy, 2-Player games were so rare. As much as I enjoyed that experience, lighter quicker games for two players is also something I really enjoy, and Zenith scratched that itch for me. It is worth noting here that Zenith… Read more »