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Wayfinder is shaping up to be a deep, fast and fun RPG with interesting characters and MMO-light features that are actually fun to play.

I may have been growing a little wary at hour 23 in Amalur, but by hour 25 I was enamored once more.

It was only after adjusting to an easier setting that I truly fell in love with this game – and I have fallen in love with it, warts and all.

Developer Naughty Dog put so much effort into this world to make it feel real that it is almost scary. It was challenging and technically amazing to behold, but more importantly I felt moved and impacted by the experience.

Think of this real-time tactics title as being kind of like "Hitman," but in the 19th century... and with a team... and a definite western feel.

The amount of fun one can have running an economy into the ground in "Tropico 6" is amazing.

At MIGS 2019 it was refreshing to focus on discovering a lot of smaller titles instead of being wowed by the big Triple-A games.

Years ago I was having trouble with the Venice level of Tomb Raider 2. I simply could not figure out where I had to go next. I asked a friend who hadn’t played it, but was wise in the way of video games. He told me to look for that …

Unlike consumer-focused videogame conferences, MIGS is filled with publishers looking to fund games, developers looking to hire talent and find funding, and middleware organizations looking to forge relationships.

The Outer Worlds, a Fallout-esque space romp by Obsidian and Private Division, is a truly inspiring video game that adds a lightness to a well-known genre.