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PREVIEW // Rhythm Paradise Groove’s RPG mode and multiplayer have me hooked on the beat

I’ve been to plenty of dedicated, hands-on game preview events in my career, but there’s always still opportunity for the circumstances to surprise me. When Nintendo invited me to play Rhythm Paradise Groove (which you might know as Rhythm Heaven Groove or Rhythm Heaven: Miracle Stars, based on where you live), I hadn’t anticipated sitting […]

PREVIEW // Sonic Pico Park is an unexpected crossover that works

As a long-time Sonic the Hedgehog fan, nothing excites me more than a new game announcement for the Blue Blur and pals – but I’ll cop to some hesitation that one of the scant few Sonic 35th Anniversary game reveals for Summer Game Fest 2026 is a spin-off of the Pico Park games. And it’s

PREVIEW // I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to play Star Fox

As you may be able to infer from the title of this piece, I have never played a Star Fox game. Well, that’s not entirely true, I did play the hell out of Star Fox Adventures on the GameCube, but given that game’s development history and complete genre separation I think it’s safe to say

PREVIEW // Dark Scrolls is a punishing, pixelated scrolls-like

I’m not going to waste any time here because it is absolutely already in the pun-forward name – Dark Scrolls is a hard game. It’s not a Souls-adjacent game, more a rogue-ish platformer, but its moniker implies exactly the level of challenge on offer as well as revealing its true genre trappings as an auto-scrolling

PREVIEW // Heave Ho 2 is armfuls of fun

I have, admittedly, never gotten around to playing 2019’s Heave Ho. It’s a game I’ve long wanted to try, but with a wealth of couch co-op puzzle games already out there and scientifically engineered to break up friendships at any function, it’s just never come up. But after playing just a few rounds of its