With none of the creativity and sense of adventure that’s typical of Dragon Quest spinoff, Infinity Strash delivers a generic, shallow action game and a garbled retelling of the Dai anime.
Author: Matt Ryan
The Galaxy Z Fold5 is the latest in Samsung’s big bet on a foldable future. There’s a lot to like about this phone/tablet hybrid, but what’s the cost of convenience?
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Pokemon Sleep gets a soft-launch in New Zealand (among other places), letting people gamify their sleep habits with cute li’l monsters.
Labyrinth of Zangetsu is a great example of how, with a strong vision and a creative approach, you can do so much with comparatively little. This is a game that’s clearly been made on a modest budget—that’s not a criticism, by the way. But with a cohesive sense of style and theme, it ends up being far more visually arresting than the vast majority of big-budget blockbusters caught up in the high-fidelity arms race. A handful of striking hand-painted character and enemy portraits, some technically simple but very atmospheric environmental models, and the tension of a Wizardry-style dungeon crawler is…
Hot Wheels Unleashed 2 brings more cars, environments, and features to the foundation laid down by its popular toy racing predecessor.