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Super Mario Galaxy Movie Review
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Drama

Super Mario Galaxy Movie Review: Critics Miss the Point…Again

I know, I know. I disappeared for a bit. Between a flood of game releases and updates that refuse to let anyone breathe, plus my son being on Spring Break, I took some time off to actually touch grass and hang out with the family. Wild concept, right? Turns out when you run your own site, you can just…not post for a week and the world keeps spinning. But then opening night hit, and my family and I went to see the new The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and suddenly I’m back at the keyboard. Not just because of the movie, though. Because of the absolute circus happening around it. Critics Whining My Opinion Super Mario Music Character Pro and Cons Power-Ups Rebalanced Final Verdict The Same Old Song From the Same Old Asshat Critics Let’s get this out of […]

Ayefkay April 3, 2026

Deep Rock Galactic Survivor Demolisher Class Update
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Gaming News

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor Demolisher Class Incoming!

If you’ve been waiting for Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor to shake things up in a meaningful way, congrats! It only took a fully weaponized mining vehicle to get there. The newly announced Heavy Duty Expansion is bringing the first new class to the game, and it’s not even trying to be subtle about it. This isn’t your standard “slightly different gun, slightly different stats” situation...this is a full on dwarf strapped into a Rock Dozer, flattening anything unlucky enough to exist in front of it. It’s loud, it’s funderfully excessive, and it might be exactly what this game needed. Or at least, part of what it needed. Demolisher Class Demolisher Mods What the Game is Missing Upcoming Mystery Features Free Stuff Coming Is it Worth the Hype? Meet the Demolisher: Subtlety Sold Seperately The Demolisher is the headline act here […]

Ayefkay March 19, 2026

1348 Ex Voto Flops Hard The Modern Audience Never Came
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Gaming News

The “Modern Audience” Never Came: 1348 Ex Voto Flops Hard

If you spent any time on gaming X/Twitter over the couple of months, you've probably seen the usual suspects like PC Gaymer and IGN hyping up 1348 Ex Voto as the next big medieval game.According to the team's marketing push, it had supposedly huge wishlist numbers, a passionate following, and a story crafted specifically for the mysterious “modern audience” that developers and journalists love to talk about.Then the game launched.Reality showed up fast and without mercy. According to our beloved charts tracked by SteamDB, the game barely managed a 427 player peak on Steam during its launch day.Again, that's four hundred. And twenty seven people. That is not a thriving medieval kingdom of players. That's probably closer to the headcount of a local bowling league or something. 1348 Ex Voto Player Numbers | SteamDB The funniest part though, in my humblest […]

Ayefkay March 14, 2026

Slay the Spire 2 Early Access Game Review
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Is Slay the Spire 2 Worth Playing Yet? Early Access Game Review

Same Rogue-like Addiction, New Shiny Coat of Paint Okay I’m only a little late getting around to this one since it came out on the 5th. The past few weeks have been absolute chaos if you follow new releases or Early Access updates. With horror games and updates popping up everywhere like mushrooms smashed with some T-Virus (yes, I may have Resident Evil Requiem still on the brain), something was bound to get pushed down the list. Yeah yeah, I still haven't played Poppy Playtime Chapter 5, but I still swear I’m going to play next...probably...maybe. Watch another ten games drop next week and Falcon Punch my plans to the shadow realm again. Anyhoo, I carved out some time for Slay the Spire 2 - the long awaited sequel to one of the most addictive roguelike games ever created. If you’ve played the first game […]

Ayefkay March 10, 2026

A Tale of Two Game Demos When Wishlists Don't Match Reality Windrose vs Ex Voto
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A Tale of Two Game Demos: When Wishlists Don’t Match Reality

It was the best of games. It was the worst of games. This is a tale of two demos that launched the same week - both were holding onto impressive wishlist numbers. Both grabbed some headlines. Both had some buzz. Only one had players. In one corner you have 1348 Ex Voto, a medieval adventure that has you parading around Italy as a lesbian knight in a bowl cut, proudly announcing that it had crossed 100,000 wishlists on Steam before launch. A six-figure milestone. Impressive. Respectable. Very screenshot-worthy, right? In the other corner - you have Windrose, a pirate survival game that quietly blew past 1,000,000 wishlists and then proceeded to pull an overwhelming 22,000 concurrent players into its demo. Meanwhile, Ex Voto peaked at 122. Original Image: 1348 Ex Voto | X That's not a typo by the way...one […]

Ayefkay February 23, 2026

The Game Awards Drama Affiliated with Tencent
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Gaming News

The Game Awards: Highguard’s Tencent Reveal Sparked Backlash

Alright. Let’s talk about the mess. For years, Geoff Keighley has positioned The Game Awards as gaming’s big night. The Oscars, but with fewer tuxedos and more world premieres. Sometimes it works. Sometimes we get genuinely cool announcements. And sometimes we get whatever just happened with Highguard. If you’ve been anywhere near Twitter, Reddit, or YouTube lately, you already know the vibe...it's not good. Let’s break this down before we put on the tinfoil hat. The Highguard Reveal That Didn’t Land Highguard was positioned as the final reveal of the show. That slot is sacred territory. Historically, it’s where something massive lives. The kind of reveal that makes chat explode and YouTube clips hit a million views overnight. Instead, viewers got what seemed like a half-assed hero shooter. Not an unplayable disaster. Not a scam. Just a fairly bleh-looking, free-to-play […]

Ayefkay February 18, 2026

Aftermath Journalist Connections Just More of the Same
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Aftermath Isn’t New Games Media – It’s Rebranded Irrelevance

Every few years, games journalism announces its own rebirth. A new website or publication launches. Some generic mission statement promises readers independence. Subscriptions replace ads. Corporate influence is supposedly left behind. And we're told that this time will finally be different, more honest, more authentic, and more connected to the people who actually play games. And then you look at the bylines. Aftermath Collection of Recent Ideological Bylines Aftermath, the latest “independent” games media startup, is trying to position itself as some sort of "clean break" from the failures of legacy outlets like Kotaku, Polygon, Vice, and The Verge...but scratch the surface for about five seconds and you might find that a different picture starts to emerge. This is not a revolution. It's more like a reunion tour. Same rejected writers. Same cringeworthy worldviews. Same self-aggrandizing echo-chamber social circles. Same […]

Ayefkay January 29, 2026

Highguard Release When Free is Still Too Expensive
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Gaming Fails

Highguard Flops: When Free to Play is Still Too Expensive

There’s hype. Then there’s Highguard...the game that somehow closed out The Game Awards 2025 in the best reveal slot only to deliver one of the most unhyped receptions in recent gaming memory. What could have been a triumphant showcase for basically any other game became a collective eyeroll, meme fodder, and (hilariously) a “Concord 2: Electric Boogaloo” moment for the already oversaturated hero shooter genre. But let’s start with the basics: Highguard is yet another free-to-play hero shooter born from a questionable team with credits on games like Titanfall and Apex Legends, landing what they really really wanted to be the industry’s “next big thing” moment,  only to be greeted with blank stares and memes questioning why this game was even the finale. I mean, you had a new Mega Man game announcement...and if you showed Mega Man Dual Override in Highguard's spot […]

Ayefkay January 27, 2026

Sony Patents AI Ghost Player
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Gaming Fails

Sony’s AI “Ghost Player” Is Everything Wrong With Modern Gaming

I’ll start with a quick note: yeah, I’ve been gone for a bit. Real vacation, real grass touched, no consoles harmed in the process. But now I’m back, and apparently Sony spent that time patenting one of the most aggressively stupid ideas I’ve seen in gaming in years...so let’s talk about it. Sony recently filed a patent for what it calls an AI “Ghost Player,” a funderful system that would allow PlayStation games to play themselves when players are having trouble. Not guide you. Not teach you. Not help you improve. Straight up take over and clear the content for you. If that sentence alone didn’t make your soul cry out in pain, congrats - you might be the exact demographic this tech is being designed for...or a Kotaku writer. So What Is Sony’s AI Ghost Player, Exactly? According to reporting […]

Ayefkay January 7, 2026

Phasmophobia Shadow Drops 3 New Ghosts for Winter's Jest Christmas Event
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Events

Phasmophobia’s Winter’s Jest Secretly Added 3 New Ghosts

Shadow Dropping 3 New Ghosts for the Holidays... Okay, you got me! Kinetic Games has officially kicked off Winter’s Jest 2025 in Phasmophobia, bringing back Krampus, festive decorations, and a funderful dose of Double XP to keep ghost hunters busy through the holidays. At first glance, the update looks like a pretty standard seasonal refresh... But that first glance is exactly what Kinetic was counting on. While reading through the Phasmophobia patch notes, most players likely missed one tiny, absolutely unhinged detail. Not because it wasn’t there - but because the developers hid it in plain sight. The words “OBAMBO GALLU DAYAN” were included in the damn notes using the same color as the background, making the text completely invisible unless you highlighted it or copy/pasted the section somewhere else. Yes. Really. And I respect it! Image: Secret Ghosts Added […]

Ayefkay December 16, 2025

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