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Review: Draugen
Despite the near total lack of promotion or pre-launch info for the game, I’d been looking forward to Draugen for some time. A psychological horror game with Nordic themes by Ragnar Tornquist seemed...
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Review: Dungeons III
The one big success story to come out of my recent flirtation with Origin Access is Dungeons III. I liked it enough I managed to play through the entire campaign (though not the DLC) before my Access...
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Lucifer Season Four Is a Major Improvement
I was saddened when Lucifer was cancelled, and heartened when Netflix picked it up for a fourth season. Not just because I’m a fan of the show, but because it deserved a better send-off than season...
View ArticleSong of the Month: Aurora, The River
Aurora has now released the second half of what was apparently a two-part album, following up last year’s Infections of a Different Kind (Step I) with A Different Kind of Human (Step II). It’s a solid...
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Of City of Heroes, Livestreams, and Singing
This past Wednesday night, nearly the entire Massively Overpowered staff gathered together to play City of Heroes on the Homecoming rogue servers whilst being livestreamed by our own MJ Guthrie. I’ve...
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Astellia Impressions
Astellia isn’t a game that’s really been on my radar, but the Massively OP staff were given a number of keys to the beta, and I’m always up try a new MMO, so I decided to check it out. I won’t say it’s...
View ArticleSong of the Month: Efflo, Mexico
It’s my birthday today, and as with last year, I’m going to post a song for no other reason than that it’s one of my absolute favourites. When I first debuted my “Song of the Month” segment I started...
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Destiny 2: By Gosh, the Price Is Right
I’ve tried Destiny 2 twice in the past, and both times it failed to impress me much. Nonetheless, not one to turn down a free lunch, I picked it up when they gave it away for free on Battle.Net, but...
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Review: Dark Phoenix
I never listen to critics. I almost never agree with them. Nonetheless the buzz around Dark Phoenix was so uniformly negative that it did eventually dampen even my hype. It doesn’t help that the last...
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Retro Review: Torchlight + Anthem Revisited
I have at last bowed to the inevitable and installed the Epic Games Store. It joins Steam, Uplay, Origin, and Battle.Net as other game launchers that I have installed just at this moment. This madness...
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Walking the Path of Exile
A few months back, I wrote a post about how I would probably never play Path of Exile. From that point on you had to know it was inevitable that I would. I did not, for the record, end up trying PoE...
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iZombie’s Final Season Provides a Satisfying Conclusion… Eventually
iZombie has become one of my favourite shows over the past few years, and as much as the thought of it ending is bittersweet, I was glad to see the series ending on its own terms, rather than being cut...
View ArticleSong of the Month: Of Monsters and Men, Stuck in Gravity
After what feels like forever, Of Monsters and Men have finally released their much-anticipated third album, Fever Dream. I won’t lie: When I first listened through this album, I was more than a little...
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Revisiting Dark Matter
Over the past few weeks I’ve been rewatching Dark Matter from start to finish. It had been a while since the show wrapped up, and I was missing it. For the most part, it’s as fun as I remember. The...
View ArticleSong of the Month: Eliza Rickman, Pretty Little Head
For this month’s selection, another song I discovered through Night Vale. I don’t really have much to say beyond the fact that this is an usual but deeply enjoyable song.
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Secret World Legends: Home but Not
A few weeks back I did a second run through of my TSW-inspired D&D campaign for a different group of players. One of my friends became so taken with the setting that she decided she wanted to play...
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New Articles: From Gaming to Mental Health
I’ve had another few articles published here and there online (beyond my regular columns at Massively Overpowered). Firstly, over at MMO Bro, I talk about old school grind, and how it was more of a...
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Limetown and Night Vale: From Audio to Print
There seems to be a lot of crossover between the world of audio and the world of print. Both of the podcasts I’ve become a fan of in recent times — Limetown and Welcome to Night Vale — have put out...
View ArticleSong of the Month: Chvrches, Bella Lugosi’s Dead
For October, I feel obligated to post something “spooky” for my Song of the Month. Not a lot that I listen to fits that bill, but I settled on Chvrches’ cover of Bauhaus’ iconic goth anthem Bella...
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Review: Echoes of the Fall, book one: The Tiger and the Wolf
Nestled within the pages of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Tales of Apt short stories collection was a bit of a bombshell: It revealed that his other fantasy series, Echoes of the Fall, also takes place within...
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