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  • Tanked Up 302 – We’ve acquired another episode!

    It’s our weekly topic episode, and we are talking the big, and I mean BIG, acquisitions. Microsoft acquired Activision-Blizzard-King for 69 (nice) bill, Sony nabbed Bungie for 3.6 billion, and most importantly the New York Times broke through and got Wordle for ”low-six-figures”. We talk around it all, but...
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    6Souls Review (Xbox Series S)

    6SOULS REVIEW (XBOX SERIES S)   In this beautifully pixelated hardcore platformer, adventurer Jack and his talking canine companion Butch journey to an abandoned castle to presumably find treasure but end up stumbling into the evil plan of a warlock who has trapped the Clifford family into Soul Crystals....
  • The Gunk review

    There’s a poignant message within The Gunk. But much like the planet you spend 4-5 hours exploring as Rani, it becomes lost along the way. Having landed on a planet ravaged by pollution and a race on the brink of extinction, a powerful message on climate change could pack...
  • TUP10 Revisited – Adam 2021

    I recently joined Ben, Lucy & Aadil on Tanked Up for episode 295. One of the main topics for that was what I have dubbed “my TUP10”. However, my list of cool things from the year didn’t go entirely to plan. My own arbitrary rules for putting together my...
  • A Decade Of Rebellion: Enemies Far & Near

    Oh, how times have changed. Time stands still for no one in the real world and that is equally true in Paradox Interactive’s Crusader Kings 3 – pause button notwithstanding. Last time I had left things on the cusp of a potentially bloody feud between me, the King of...
  • Samurai Warriors 5 Review

    Koei Tecmo’s Samurai Warriors 5 is a hack ‘n’ slash experience that is easy to fall in love with. The latest game in the Musou series features beautiful art and character design. The action speaks for itself when you see it in full flow. However, there are a few...
  • An Ode To Bonking

    If you smack them upside the head, with a weapon or some sticks instead,  That’s a bonking.   If you smash them between the eyes, With some furniture laying nearby, That’s a bonking.   If you swing your heavy weight, Round and round ’til they faint, That’s a bonking....
  • Super Bomberman R Online Review

    *This is a guest article written by Cosmic Saboteur. If you enjoy it let us know in all the usual places and we’ll make sure we get him back again soon!* Super Bomberman R Online is the latest release in the Bomberman series. The original game, which was released...
  • Samurai Warriors 5 – Impressions

    My time with Samurai Warriors 5, the latest Musou/Warriors style game from Koei Tecmo’s Omega Force, has been a mostly enjoyable one. At the time of writing I’m 12 hours in, I’ve messed around with a few different modes and characters and completed 4 chapters of Nobunanga’s Path. One...