**Review copy provided by publisher** GRIP: Combat Racing is the spiritual successor to Rollcage, a racing game for the PlayStation One that targeted the WipeOut fanbase, although never quite achieved the same level of success. I loved Rollcage. The explosions, futuristic vehicles, and pounding Fatboy Slim soundtrack were exactly what I was after at the…
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Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales (PC
**Review copy provided by the publisher** When CD Projekt Red released Gwent: The Witcher Card Game—based on the popular card game gwent that debuted in The Witcher 3—it promised that a full campaign mode was on its way. Most developers would throw together a short tournament against AI opponents with little in the way of…
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (PC)
Assassin's Creed Odyssey is the video game equivalent of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy. There's a good story in there somewhere and a decent editor could trim the material and create a cohesive product. However, both experiences are stretched thin over unnecessary padding and diversions and by the time you're two-thirds of the way through…
Return of the Obra Dinn (PC)
**Review copy provided by the publisher** Return of the Obra Dinn is the new game from Lucas Pope, the developer of the excellent Papers, Please. Both games have you solving puzzles to identify people, but the similarities mostly end there. Papers, Please had you solving simple puzzles as quickly as possible. Return of the Obra…
Shadow of the Tomb Raider (PC)
Lara Croft has officially become the Tomb Raider. For the third time in five years. You'll have to excuse my fatigue, but I can't help but feel like I've played Shadow of the Tomb Raider before. Twice. Shadow's predecessor, Rise of the Tomb Raider, wasn't a bad game by any stretch, but it wasn't a particularly…
Marvel’s Spider-Man (PS4)
Marvel's Spider-Man has a trophy for using the fast travel system five times. In any other game with an open world map as large as this one, I'd be popping that trophy in the first few hours. Therefore, it's a huge credit to Insomniac Games that I had to go out of my way to…
Donut County (PS4)
During my three hours with Donut County, I used more emojis than I have previously used in my thirty-five years on this Earth. The mere inclusion of emojis would usually stop me from playing a game, let alone enjoying it, but I had a lovely time with Donut County, both in the main levels and…
Quarantine Circular (PC)
Quarantine Circular is another short text adventure from Bithell Games. Like its predecessor, Subsurface Circular, Quarantine Circular was released with little fanfare and for the low price of $6. Both games share the same DNA, but they aren't connected and you don't need to play Subsurface first. That said, you probably should, because Subsurface is…
Not Tonight (PC)
*Review copy provided by publisher* There's no way I'll make it through this review without comparing Not Tonight to Papers, Please, so let's get it out of the way early. Yes, Not Tonight is a hell of a lot like Papers, Please. Instead of working at a border, you're a doorman for local pubs and…
Far Cry 5: Dead Living Zombies DLC
Dead Living Zombies completes Far Cry 5's phenomenally disappointing season pass which never even made it to the mediocre highs of the base game. This expansion has some great writing and a premise that could have set it apart from all the other zombie games out there. Instead, Ubisoft settled for spawning in hoards of zombies…