Posts categorized under “Progress Log” are coverage of games written before said game is finished. That may be because they’re part of a Let’s Play, or they could simply be stray observations equally likely to be undermined or borne out by the time credits roll. Progress Logs are shorter and less formal than game reviews by necessity, but often home in on details too minor to bring up in a bigger-picture analysis. Getting bogged down by such details in a Progress Log can be amusing, just as it can provide insights for developers about how fresh eyes approach/view certain sequences and obstacles.
I hated the original Psychonauts when I played through a large part of it for the first time a week or so ago. The humor was inconsistent, the visuals were largely bland, the story spent too much time treading water and doing nothing with its characters, and the gameplay was terrible beyond description. I had …
A couple of days ago, I received an email announcing the release of Speed Limit‘s “Penny & Dime” update and a 50% off sale. I’ve had almost zero free time this past week, but I greatly enjoyed Speed Limit, and it felt only fair that I reinstalled it and figured out what’s been added post-release …
Welcome to yet another entry in the long-running, largely inexplicable series that is “that guy from killapenguin.com hates everything that is or ever was popular.” Of course, that’s not even remotely true, and there are plenty of old and new games that I’ve really liked, but I’ve given only one game a score higher than …
The Ascent‘s first patch came out earlier today, and it claims to increase the game’s performance in DirectX12 mode in addition to fixing a bunch of bugs. Now, performance improvements are a little tricky to quantify since some have claimed that The Ascent stutters and runs poorly on computers significantly better than the one that …
Part of the reason I so giddily dropped Bloodroots is that Cris Tales, a game that I’ve had my eye on for a long time, unexpectedly dropped on Game Pass. That saves me the trouble of waiting for Modus Games to do anything with my key request, which I didn’t expect them to acknowledge since …
You know what’s frustrating? Getting a Game Pass key, being politely asked to cover something new, and then being totally unable to find anything new that’s good enough to say anything nice about. It’s not like there aren’t incredible games on Game Pass right now—I gave both Bug Fables and Rain on Your Parade 9/10 …
Black Skylands is a top-down 2D action-adventure game developed by Hungry Couch Games (great name) and published by tinyBuild that’s releasing into early access tomorrow, July 9th. It plays like a cross between the top-down combat madness of Streets of Rogue and the ship-positioning naval battles in Sid Meier’s Pirates!, but it also tells a …
Back when I was looking back at some of the review scores I’ve given out, I mentioned how rare it is for games to receive a followup article after being reviewed. It’s just not a good use of time for a variety of reasons. Consider it a sign of respect, then, that this is the …
Back in January, I started really digging into video technology, and this turned into a full-blown obsession with upscaling video. Ever since then, I’ve been recording almost all of the videos I capture at 1920×1080 (because it’s less resource-intensive) and subsequently upscaling them to 4K. The process is slightly different depending on the source; pixel …
Xbox has a relatively new thing that I first noticed around a month ago where you can request keys for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. This is an ideal situation; downloading a title from the service is much easier than relying on unpredictable middlemen whose troves of review keys are locked down tight for no obvious …