Heat wave or not, 2026 is the summer of sports. While the main attraction is undoubtedly the ongoing FIFA World Cup, fans are already gearing up for the Tour de France, which kicks off in just a few w... Read More »
Over the last few weeks or so, we’ve been dipping in and out of Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, slowly chipping away at the post-game. That inevitably means that we’ve been spending a lot of time ... Read More »
The R-Type series occupies a strange place in our video game consciousness. While it’s never really top-of-mind, we’re aware of it enough that we’re never surprised whenever a new entry crosses ... Read More »
Perspective is everything. We live in an era where a blockbuster like Masters of the Universe is a box office bomb and a movie born from an internet creepypasta, The Backrooms, becomes a runaway indie... Read More »
Back in 2018, Square Enix’s Octopath Traveler put the HD-2D style on the map. This graphical style of combining old-school 2D pixelated character sprites with 3D environments and modern lighting... Read More »
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These days, visual novels where readers/players take on the role of a bartender or barista are commonplace, almost to the point that we’d consider them a subgenre in their own right. To name just a ... Read More »
If you grew up in the ‘90s, you’ll undoubtedly remember encountering arcade machines in the wild without having any money on you. So, being a kid, what did you do? You pretended that you were play... Read More »
Schrödinger’s Call is a visual novel in which you’ll answer the calls of the dead, lost souls who need closure before they can let go of their existence and the person they were. It’... Read More »
Okay, hear us out. We’re well aware that we’re not the target audience for otome visual novels. In our Birushana review, we even described ourselves as “outsiders” when it comes to this very s... Read More »