Michaelbrent Collings’ “Stranger Sins” Adds Chills and Thrills to the I Am Legion Series
Michael Blaker reviews “Stranger Sins,” the fourth book in the I Am Legion series by author Michaelbrent Collings. “Stranger Sins” brings the chaos and mayhem put forward by main character Legion, and we find him in this book training two new students, a mother and her daughter, to be just like him.
The Sims Meets Property Management Simulations in the Upbeat Title The Tenants
The Tenants puts players in the role of a benevolent landlord and contractor on a mission to renovate apartments by turning depressing dumps into luxurious living spaces. The title rewards you if you keep your tenants happy and help your community.
Influential Classic Dwarf Fortress Remodeled and Reborn on Steam
Since its inception back in 2002, the legendary classic Dwarf Fortress has earned a lot of monikers, like the most detailed and also the most complicated video game ever made. It’s now on Steam, where interface modifications and a modern new look could help it attract a whole new audience alongside its veteran players.
New GeoMag Toy Set Scores Another STEM Goal
GeoMag toy sets are amazingly well constructed, and they’re great at teaching critical STEM and science-related topics. The new Mechanics Challenge Goal set tasks young builders with constructing a magnetic machine that can launch a small metal ball into a goal.
Putting Your Typing Skills to an Arcade Style Test With Outshine
This week Modern Gamer Marie Brownhill lets her fingers do the fighting in the typing trainer Outshine. In the game, players will be typing out words in order to launch missiles, shield their character and challenge endless sci-fi landscapes. And surprisingly, it’s actually G-R-E-A-T F-U-N.
Pokémon Series Tries Something New With Scarlet and Violet
The beloved Pokémon series has undergone many reiterations, although they are mostly filled with incremental changes. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet really does try something new with the introduction of the robust open world Paldea region and three separate story paths.
Scoping out the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II Single Player Campaign
We’ve covered the awesome Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II multiplayer action, and now it is time to dive into the single player campaign. Sometimes the single player side of Call of Duty games gets shorted in favor of multiplayer, but not this time. The single player campaign is one of the best of the entire series.
Enjoying The Battle of Polytopia on the Nintendo Switch
Heaps of praise have landed on the pixel-based game The Battle of Polytopia since it launched, and for good reason. This is everything gamers want in a 4X strategy title. Now, it lands on the Nintendo Switch and plays every bit as good as on other platforms.
Getting a First Look at the Upcoming Japanese Folklore Card Battler Mahokenshi
Continuing our first look at new games this week, we take a look at Mahokenshi, a card battler that is steeped in deep Japanese Folklore. This beautiful game is due to be released in January, but we got a look at the first five levels of the game on Steam.
Zeroing in on the Early Access Apocalyptic Adventure Zero Sievert
Zero Sievert is an Early Access post-apocalyptic shooter and exploration game set in Eastern Europe and made with colorful pixel art. Taking inspiration from games like Stalker, Metro and Escape from Tarkov, it nonetheless blazes its own trail.