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‘Stratogun’ – Finally a Game That Can Scratch My Geometry Wars Itch

Ever since I first played Geometry Wars 2 on Xbox 360, I’ve been searching for something that could fill that void. The most recent game in the...

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Ghosts, Survivors, and Racers – These Steam Next Fest Demos Have Me Excited For Their Full Releases

The Steam Next Fest is here until March 3rd and obviously it’s an exciting time for us as well as gaming as a whole. This is the time where indie...

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‘Sodaman’ – A Carbonated Indie Fire Fight in Early Access (Hands-On Impressions)

I’ve spent a little over 20 hours totally locked in on the world of Sodaman, an indie game in Early Access on Steam that almost defies coherent...

26.02.2025 0

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‘Marvel Rivals’ Team Laid off Because Being Good at Your Job Is No Longer Enough

It seems like every time we look up, another group of talented developers is posting aboutneeding to look for work due to layoffs. This time, it’s...

19.02.2025 8

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I Have Only One Request For the Eventual ‘Zelda’ on Nintendo Switch 2 — No Open World on This One

I love the Zelda franchise. It is responsible for more of my gaming memories than any other game, and Ocarina of Time stands to this day as my...

18.02.2025 5

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A Boy and His Dog: ‘The Legend of Baboo’ Is an Action-Adventure Game Flashing On My Radar

We spend a lot of time looking for new indie games to highlight. Obviously the big games are appreciated here. But putting people on to the latest in...

16.02.2025 5

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Retro Runback: ‘Diddy Kong Racing’ — The True King of N64 Mascot Racers

Yeah, let’s get to it. Dwayne and I have both made our feelings known about the Banjo-Kazooie/Super Mario 64 thing. So, why not double down? Because...

16.02.2025 7

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State of Play Was Better Than I Initially Thought

I got caught up watching/listening to the State of Play while stuck in traffic on my way home from work. While I caught every announcement, it...

14.02.2025 10

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‘Mark of the Deep’ Is the Soulslike That Might Have Cracked the Code for Me (Review)

I’ve pointed out my inability to lock in with Souls games and Soulslikes. Most of that’s due to just not being able to get a good feel for the...

02.02.2025 5

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Hey, PlayStation! Xbox and Nintendo Have Planted Their 2025 Flags — You’re Up

So, it’s been a pretty eventful early 2025 in the gaming world, huh? We’re only one month out and we’ve seen some good things, some terrible...

01.02.2025 5

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EA Apparently Thinks There’s an Art To Firing People

A decent number of devs at BioWare, people who have given us all kinds of classics, have fallen victim to yet another round of layoffs. This time,...

30.01.2025 9

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We’re Probably (Hopefully) Getting ‘Madden’ Back on a Nintendo Console and I Can’t Wait

At this point, it’s very obvious that I love football, and I love my Eagles. So of course I spend a lot of time playing Madden. I’m not as down on...

30.01.2025 6

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‘Dead Letter Dept.’ — The Indie Horror Masterpiece That Made Me Wish I Never Took That Typing Class in High School (Review) 

Indie horror games are starting to occupy a special place in my heart. I’ve generally stayed away from the bigger games because they tend to devolve...

27.01.2025 8

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‘Drop Duchy’ is ‘Tetris’ with a Twist (Preview)

I love puzzle games more than I openly express. It’s not a guilty pleasure thing as I don’t believe in feeling guilty about liking the things I...

21.01.2025 4

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Nintendo Switch 2 Will Do for Indies What Steam Did on PC

Now that we have our first official look at the Nintendo Switch 2, we can start really breaking down some of the stuff that’s there. Obviously, the...

16.01.2025 5

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Did Nintendo Pull a Tom Brady on Us with the Switch 2?

The Switch 2 rumor mill has been churning along at a pretty significant clip over the last week  or so. It’s been a strange sight from the normally...

16.01.2025 3

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Retro Runback: ‘Banjo-Kazooie’

There are games that change the entire fabric of the industry and are front and center. Super Metroid for example. The classic 2D game truly gave...

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Nintendo, This Is Getting Ridiculous. We See the Switch 2, It’s Okay — Just Drop the Reveal

So, that was quick. We don’t have to keep pretending that we don’t see these things, or that we don’t know what’s going on. After the leaks of the...

08.01.2025 8

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Hey, Nintendo, Maybe You Should Just Show Us the Nintendo Switch 2 — Because Everyone Else Is

Another day, another random Nintendo Switch 2 leak. This time, from Laura Kate Dale. This one shows off the Switch 2 dock, which Dale notes “ships...

07.01.2025 4

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Retro Runback: ‘Marvel Ultimate Alliance’ and ‘X-Men Legends’

Once in a while, we get a comic book game that hits like a meteorite slamming into earth. At  least that’s how it used to be. Now they’re pretty...

07.01.2025 4

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The Remaining Perfectly Paranormal Games Have Turned Me Into Arsenio Hall and I’m Looking For Someone to Slap

There’s a skit in the legendary Chappelle’s Show where Arsenio Hall finds himself at a wine and cheese party. When he tastes the cheese and...

07.01.2025 5

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‘Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers’ is My Newest Love (Review)

In the deepest and darkest part of my brain, there’s a part of me that would play Balatro for the rest of my life. The other part of my brain is...

01.01.2025 9

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‘Tetris Effect’-Music and Movement 

There’s no shortage of Tetris out there. Tetris 99 for a long time was  my favorite version of it, and it kept me locked in for months. My highest...

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‘Hollow Knight: Silksong’-It’ll Be Ready When It’s Ready and I Like That 

We’re almost at the end of 2024. It’s been 5 years since Team Cherry announced Hollow Knight: Silksong and one question has been on everyone’s...

31.12.2024 5

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Retro Runback: ‘NBA and NFL Street’

If I had to quantify the amount of time I’ve spent begging for particular games to make a comeback, I’d guess the EA BIG ‘Street’ series has gotten...

28.12.2024 10

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‘Weird West’ Grabbed Me By The Neck and Didn’t Let Go

Some of my favorite games I’ve ever played, I just ended up taking a chance on. Early Rocket League, Geometry Wars 2 are just a couple. There’s...

27.12.2024 7

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All About The Boom: ‘Call of Duty’ and Its Emphasis on Action

Call of Duty has always been a fairly interesting franchise to me. Both in its execution and the response to it. I’ve been down on it on a few...

27.12.2024 10

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Xbox Indie Game Demo Event: ‘Section 13’ and ‘Arctic Awakening’

The Xbox Indie Game Demo Event gave devs a chance to showcase games that were in development, but with something to show. The event runs through...

26.12.2024 4

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My Time With ‘Destiny 2’ and Why I Had to Put it Down

I’ve probably put over 1,000 hours into Destiny 2 from the time it launched to the day I finally put it down for good about a year ago. So what I’m...

24.12.2024 5

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PowerWash Simulator- My Unexpected Comfort Game

I often spend my gaming time as low impact as possible right now. Think Kobe on some of those last playoff runs saying he was only dunking if it...

24.12.2024 4

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Retro Runback: ‘Goldeneye 007’

There aren’t many games that cause a flood of memories to come back quite like the N64 classic shooter, Goldeneye 007. The single player was cool,...

23.12.2024 9

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‘The Holy Gosh Darn’: The Best Adult Swim Show That Isn’t One (Review)

Adult animation is a genre of TV that holds a very special place in my heart. From The Simpsons to Family Guy and the somehow underrated Adult Swim...

23.12.2024 7

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Bots Aren’t All Bad: Multiplayer for the Single-Player Minded 

I am and always have been a primarily single-player gamer. I’ll hop  online with my friends and run some matches with them but it’s not ...

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Mass Effect: Andromeda- I’m Going To Try This Again

I love the original Mass Effect trilogy. That’s not exactly a huge leap but it is what makes Mass Effect: Andromeda so disappointing. I was ready...

21.12.2024 4

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‘THRESHOLD’ is Horror That Made Me Question My Sanity (Review)

Horror is an interesting genre in video games. Often, the play is to scare players straight up.  Foreboding music, high-pitched stings, the classic...

17.12.2024 6

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‘Ballionaire’ Brings Something Different to Roguelikes (Review)

As a kid growing up in the 90’s, time spent with your grandparents was often spent running  errands and sitting at home watching various daytime TV...

17.12.2024 6

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‘Tales of Kenzera: Zau’ Got Me Through My Own Grief

December 15, 2009, is the worst yet most important day of my life. I lost my Grandma that day. She was everything to me. The person who I felt...

15.12.2024 6

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How MachineGames Filled a Gap in Indiana Jones’ History (Interview)

I recently reviewed Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, and I loved it. It was a true love letter to the franchise and a perfect entry into the...

14.12.2024 5

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‘[REDACTED]’ is the Newest Roguelike to Put Me in a Chokehold

I love the Roguelike genre. It’s the perfect mix of challenge and intelligence. So, when I had the chance to play [REDACTED], I was anticipating a...

11.12.2024 5

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‘Indiana Jones and the Great Circle’ Is the Fourth Movie We Actually Wanted (Review)

I’ve been an Indiana Jones fan my whole life. My Dad introduced me to the movies when I was a kid, and it was on from there. Gaming-wise, there were...

06.12.2024 4

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‘Astro Bot’ and Sackboy Remind Us of the Beauty of Platforming

The best thing about Game of the Year contender and platforming king, Astro Bot, is that it’s a reminder of an era of gaming that straight-up...

30.11.2024 10

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Sony Has Handled Its First Party Studios (Almost) Perfectly

A weird thing happened on the way to this era of gaming. Sony magically found its footing as the AAA-narrative focused company. For me, the...

23.11.2024 10

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‘DEATH NOTE Killer Within’ Impressions

I’m vaguely familiar with Death Note at least enough to know who Ryuk is and what the Death Note itself is. My main experience with the titular...

23.11.2024 10

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True Gaming Stories: Perfect Dark and My Godbrother 

This series is a chance for us here at Waypoint to talk about why we love gaming and even some of the funnier stories we’ve experienced. For me,...

20.11.2024 4

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The Game Awards are Cool, But We Need E3 

The Game Awards announced their list of nominees recently. While I’m generally excited for this and Summer Game Fest each year, I can’t help but...

19.11.2024 5

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Offset Rumbles With French Rapper Gazo in Wild Brawl Caught on Camera

Offset had to be held back during a brawl with French rapper Gazo. The incident took place in Paris and was all caught on camera. In footage shared...

18.11.2024 1

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Coheed And Cambria’s Claudio Sanchez Nails The Cure’s ‘Just Like Heaven’

If your elder-emo sense is tingling, it’s probably because of Coheed And Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez’s new cover of The Cure’s “Just Like...

18.11.2024 3

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Mess Around Mondays — Pac-Man: 2PACalypse

Early video games are interesting because there’s no explicit story. At least, not in the way we consider a narrative in gaming now. A lot of what...

18.11.2024 2

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The Cartoon Network Shockwave Game Era

In some ways, I take great pride in aging myself as a gamer. This is one of those times. A true “you had to be there” moment but if you were there,...

17.11.2024 5

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The Lion King: My Gaming Nemesis 

There are games that I am certain children should not have been playing. Let’s leave Doom, Mortal Kombat and others out of the question. Yeah, they...

17.11.2024 4

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