Mortal Kombat 2 trailer 2

If the last trailer didn’t have me hyped, our next taste of the bloody video game movie sequel has me cheering. The characters look incredibly faithful. Shao Khan looks terrifying. I love what I see of Karl Urban’s run as an older Johnny Cage. I’m hoping this movie delivers. May the gaming gods bring you glory.

Popular medieval survival RPG Bellwright coming to PS5 and Xbox Series consoles

Bellwright is a medieval open-world survival RPG where you can establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

Now available on Steam Early Access, Bellwright recently saw a massive expansion with its Maiden Voyage update last December, adding the new Halmare Isles map, which is roughly 25% the size of the original game! At over 10 square kilometers, this region includes all new story-based quests with multiple progression lines, expanded armor and equipment, new animals and buildings, and introduces a Loyalty & Faction system.

The Severed Gods Steam Demo Review

The Severed Gods is an upcoming fantasy roguelike RPG that if you have ever played the Octopath Traveler series you already know how to play. You fight enemies in a turn based style, hit their weaknesses to break them and cause massive amounts of damage. Some times an almost cartoonish amount if you do it right. (compared to when you start) I have never achieved these numbers, but you can see some of their numbers over one Twitter. (I refuse to call it X)

I hate this guy.

The biggest difference is the levels of combat, and I mean that quite literally. Take the above skeleton, his feet are considered low, arms are mid and head is high. Attacks each attack one or more levels. If you use them on a wrong level they can still hit, but they do face a penalty on accuracy. This adds a great dynamic to combat, you won’t be able to simply worry about the kind of attacks you learn but also the levels they strike at.

The demo is great, picking which path to walk isn’t a random thing, you have to decide to take battles , head towards a camp, fight mini bosses and while there are random events I never felt they were forced on me that often. I truly felt like I was on an adventure and failing didn’t feel like anything other than a consequences of my choices. More importantly, the improvements and changes made between runs didn’t feel abstract or pointless. The world changes and my characters and runs felt better and like progress was being made. I went into this excited to try something new, and I left excited for the full release. This is absolutely a demo you will want to play. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Dark Quest Remastered Playstation 5 Remastered

Dark Quest: Remastered was sent to me by Brain Seal Entertainment, and as the name implies, it is the remastered version of the 2013 Mobile and 2015 Steam release. The game has been fully remastered visually, and the gameplay has been polished up nicely while still maintaining what people loved about the original.

The game itself is a simple turn-based game with characters and enemies moving along a grid. You will start with the classic barbarian, wizard, and dwarf in a tutorial dungeon, which you will probably want to run through a couple of times to earn some money for items and new skills.

Honestly, I wish I had a ton to say about this one, but I truly don’t. The game is $7 and is a throwback to a time when games were simple. There were no deep mechanics to learn, hidden mechanics to figure out. The story is a simple story of good versus evil. The battles are faster than the original release, which is great in my opinion. It can be a bit repetitive since you will have to do each dungeon a few times to truly progress, but that is also a normal thing in older games. It may have been a game from 2013, but it plays like a game from the 1990s, and I don’t mean that as an insult. The game is a 7/10 experience, and for its price point, that makes it a damn good game. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Star Trek Voyager Across the Unknown Playstation 5 Review

Some of you may have noticed I have covered Star Trek Voyager Across the Unknown quite extensively since it was announced. As a lifelong Star Wars fan, I’ve always wanted to play this game since I saw Voyager as a kid. Not only did Daedalic Entertainment make that happen, but they were nice enough to send me a copy to review. To say this made me happy would be an understatement, but was it worth the wait?

Well, for those not familiar with the game, you are in charge of guiding Voyager across its entire journey. From the moment you are dragged from the badlands into the Delta quadrant, you will play a what-if scenario in this survival strategy game. Want to take the array home instead of destroying it? Give it a shot. Want to let Tuvix live? That is an option. Never liked how Janeway treated the Kazon? You can do it differently. To be fair, all of these choices may have unintended consequences for you. That, however, is the point of the game.

The survival aspect is where the real challenge comes in, and even on easy, it can be challenging. Without enough cargo bays and without them set to hold the right things, problems can come up suddenly and quickly later on, even when you think you are doing ok. Not researching the right technologies or upgrading rooms quickly enough can also have long-lasting problems. The flip side to this is homesickness. The Voyager crew does not take well to you just hanging out, collecting resources. Staying in a sector for too long upsets them, and morale will drop fast.

The combat is quite simple to learn and is mostly done on its own as you give commands. You simply tell them how to fight. Do you want them to be defensive or attack the enemy’s weapons? You can do all this with the touch of a few buttons. You also tell your battle party when to use commands or use torpedoes. Phasers are fired automatically; however, how fast or strong they are depends on the level of your phaser room itself and certain technologies.

I could honestly go on about this game far more, but I already feel like I have taken up enough of your time. I won’t pretend the game is perfect; there were certainly some decisions on design I question. For example, I don’t know why there is an engineering room and a warp core room; this was always the same room in Star Trek, and I really don’t know why they are so far apart. And why can’t I rearrange my rooms more easily? Regardless, this is an 8/10 game that I have already spent plenty of hours in and will spend many more playing. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Death Howl Playstation 5 Review

Death Howl is a deckbuilding RPG that promotes itself as a soulslike, and 11 Bit Studio and Evolve PR were kind enough to send me a copy so I could find out just how accurate this was. Spoiler alert, it is a fair assessment.

Fill disclosure, this was one of the hardest games I ever had to review, not in the sense of the game’s difficulty, but in the sense that I work very hard not to spoil anything in my reviews, and I found everything I wanted to tell you fell into this category. The story is beautiful and heart-wrenching, but I can’t tell you why. The symbolism and such are also amazing, but I can’t explain that to you either. Suffice it to say, if you have ever lost someone you loved, and I feel like that is most of us, this story will hit home pretty hard in a lot of ways.

The battle system is where it matters, however. After all, if this is bad or just not fun, what is the point of such a touching and beautiful story? There are no random or surprising battles here, really. You can look at your map and see where they all are, and even teleport to spots you have unlocked to heal. Doing this will, of course, revive all enemies. This is a soulslike after all. Enemies won’t try to ambush you like in Dark souls however. This is turn-based combat; you will pick where you start from a select number of spaces. From what I can tell, each battle has specified opponents. Ran into two crows in a spot last time; that is what will be there next time. This allows you to grind out Death Howls and items for new cards easily.

This is where my only issue comes from. You can do a lot of work in each region, grinding out Death Howls from enemies, and getting all the cards in each region, and in the next region, you are essentially back to square one. Yes, you can bring those cards with you, but using one region’s cards in another makes them more expensive, bringing their usefulness way down. This forces you to restart in each region.

This gripe aside, the game is a lot of fun and quite challenging. It is an 8/10 experience that fans of card games and soulslikes should check out. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy trailer 2

Well, I’m pretty sure I found my WTF movie of 2026. I’m all for unique interpretations and trying something different. Everything from this trailer makes me wonder if this was even supposed to be a Mummy remake at all and not just a case of generic script retooled with a familiar title slapped on for market value. I like some of the imagery but others just seem…off. I’m morbidly curious to say the least. May the gaming gods bring you glory.

Game Feeder Pack 2 launches 24 February for theHunter: Call of the Wild

As many of you may know, in my downtime, I enjoy shooting virtual animals even though I haven’t gone hunting in probably 12 years. So I am happy to announce that Game Feeder Pack 2 will be launching on the 24th of February for TheHunter: Call of the Wild. You may remember I reviewed the first one. So enjoy some details and the trailer, happy hunting, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

 Avalanche Studios Group has announced the Game Feeder Pack 2, featuring three new game feeders for theHunter: Call of the Wild for PlayStation, Xbox, and PC via Steam, the Epic Games Store, and Microsoft Store. This latest DLC pack will be available on all platforms from 24 February. 

Game Feeder Pack 2 introduces three new specialised feeders to attract herbivores, omnivores, and even predators. This solid and indestructible trio of feeders – the Mineral Lick, Scent Tube and Carcass Feeder – are specifically designed to attract a diverse array of species, including elusive carnivores and predators. Study prey, find the perfect location and bait, and beware, or you might just become the bait yourself.

John Wick (2014)

John Wick is a movie I somehow failed to sit down and watch all the way through for over a decade. I had always heard it was about a guy going on a killing spree because some dude killed his dog, and I assumed it was hyperbole and that there was more to it than that. Suffice it to say, I am now fully aware that this is just an hour and forty-one minutes of Keanu Reeves killing people because some dude broke into his house to steal his car and killed his dog in the process.

So I enjoyed the movie, it was fun, I won’t go on and on about it, but I do have some questions that maybe the other movies answer, but I don’t know, I haven’t watched them yet. For example, Wick kills a bunch of people in his house and a cop shows up and sees the dead bodies and just says he didn’t know John was back to work. Is killing people just legal for assassins, and did he assume John would file the proper paperwork for these?

Does he receive some sort of pay per person he kills when they get sent after him, or is his payment that he gets to live longer? I only ask because there seems to be some sort of economic system based around assassins in this world. So it seems like killing one might also get you paid.

My final question, the cleaners he pays aren’t also killers, do they have a special place they take these bodies, or are they just dumping them in rivers and unmarked graves? Because it seems like the cops don’t care about what he is doing he could just call the usual coroner. Or is this more of a professional courtesy to not bother the cops? This world seems to have some weird stuff going on. Either way, best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Sirius Dice Balurs Gate 3 Treasure Pack Review

Recently, Sirius Dice teamed up with the creators of Baldur’s Gate and created treasure packs. The description on the website reads as follows.

Step into the world of Baldur’s Gate 3 with this collectible Dungeons & Dragons Treasure Pack, packed with surprise and excitement worthy of your next campaign. 

Each blind pack includes:

  • 1 oversized D20 featuring icons from fan-favorite characters like Astarion, Gale, and the Dark Urge
  • 1 collectible coin with a Baldur’s Gate theme
  • 1 embroidered dice bag to store your treasure

40 Possible d20s
21 Possible Metal Coins
9 Possible Embroidered Dice Bags

With stunning Rare, Legendary, and Artifact dice designs hidden inside, every pack is a roll of the dice and a thrill to open. Plus, lucky adventurers may uncover an exclusive Replica Astral Prism, a limited prize item straight from the world of BG3.

They were kind enough to send me a few to check out, which I am always grateful for. The sets are honestly really nice. The bags feel nice, they don’t feel cheap, and they are all pull to close and have some sort of design on them, which changes depending on who is inside.

Forgive the not-so-great camera work with my phone

The collectable coins are solid. I’m not sure what they are made from, but they should stand up well as a collectible item. I wouldn’t recommend flipping them like a coin or anything like that, but they are definitely safe to handle.

The dice themselves are nice. I was lucky enough to get the Bloodless rare dice, and they are certainly usable. I wasn’t able to get a decent picture, unfortunately. It does look pretty cool, however, and I do want to purchase more of them. For collectors and fans of the game, the cost of less than $14 is worth it once they are back in stock. Best wishes, and may the gaming gods bring you glory.