I Choose You! The First in a Series of Pokémon Video Game Reviews
Before open worlds.Before hundreds of creatures.Before Pokémon became the largest media franchise on Earth. There were just two Game Boy cartridges and a simple idea:Catch them all. This week kicks off our Pokémon-themed Fridays with the originals — Pokémon Red and Blue (known as Pokémon Red and Green in Japan) and their enhanced cousin Pokémon Yellow. And somehow, these tiny […]
Secret Weapons Over Normandy
Before massive flight simulators.Before ultra-realistic cockpit controls. There was a game that asked a much simpler question: What if World War II air combat felt like an action movie? That game was Secret Weapons Over Normandy. And if you played it back in the early 2000s, there’s a good chance you remember one thing clearly: Blowing […]
Days Gone: Zombies, Motorcycles… Oregon?
Never touched this game? Even if all you know about it is: Fair. But Days Gone is way more than “another zombie game.” It’s a slow-burn survival story about grief, loyalty, and what happens when the world ends… but you still have bills to pay and gas to find. The Story (No Spoilers) Two years after a […]
Gun (2005): Before the West Was Red Dead
Before cinematic horses.Before Arthur Morgan.Before the Wild West became prestige gaming. There was Gun. And if you blinked, you might’ve missed it. So… What Was Gun? Gun was an open-world Western released in 2005 — back when most sandbox games were still urban crime simulators. Instead of cars and cities, you got: You played as Colton White, a quiet […]
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: Mythology You Can Play
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is a historical action-adventure game set in Ancient Greece, during a time when people didn’t separate history from myth the way we do now. To us, Greek mythology is stories.To them, it was how the world worked. Storms were caused by gods.Monsters guarded sacred places.Heroes were real people who lived, fought, loved, and died — and then […]