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I found Control Resonant to be one of the most sauceless and poorly balanced melee action games I've played in some time with a story that did little to fill me with awe or wonder comicbook.com/gaming/revie...

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Control Resonant's Pivot to Melee Action Is a Terrible Waste of Remedy's Talents (Review)

Control Resonant's terrible, mindless melee combat and weak story make for one incredibly disappointing sequel.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10/09/2026

trying to get people to understand that the trans women in sports debate isn’t really about sports but a meta narrative pushed by the right all about slowly getting all trans people out of public life is truly impossible

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Michael Leri @orangeflavored.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

come on man I'm just trying to enjoy this gondola ride in nature

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Michael Leri @orangeflavored.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I spoke to a ton of Metroidvania developers for GameSpot's Metroidvania Week and got them to talk about Metroid for its 40th anniversary www.gamespot.com/articles/how...

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How 40 Years of Metroid Have Impacted The Biggest Metroidvania Developers

Metroidvania developers pay their respects to a genre legend.

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Michael Leri @orangeflavored.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I spoke to a ton of Metroidvania developers for GameSpot's Metroidvania Week and got them to talk about Metroid for its 40th anniversary www.gamespot.com/articles/how...

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How 40 Years of Metroid Have Impacted The Biggest Metroidvania Developers

Metroidvania developers pay their respects to a genre legend.

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Michael Leri @orangeflavored.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Way of the Sword

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Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 27/08/2026

Happy Metal Gear Solid 4 liberation day

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Michael Leri @orangeflavored.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

MGS4 still has it all: a soda-loving monkey in a diaper, a thoughtful and prescient critique of the war economy, a guy who can't stop pooping himself and is somehow now a main character, jiggle physics powered by shaking the controller, a very cool camo system comicbook.com/gaming/revie...

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Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 Lacks Worthy Extras but Is Worth It for MGS4 (Review)

Even with a relatively basic presentation, Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 succeeds mostly because of its inclusion of MGS4.

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Michael Leri @orangeflavored.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Mortal Shell 2 is a fantastic game that demonstrates how a studio can realize the potential of a shaky or modest debut entry if given the chance to make a sequel, something that's sadly all too rare now comicbook.com/gaming/revie...

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Mortal Shell 2 Fulfills the First Game's Potential and Is One of the Greatest Soulslikes (Review)

Mortal Shell 2 is a significant step up from its modest predecessor and one of the best Soulslikes in recent memory.

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Michael Leri @orangeflavored.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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Mortal Shell 2 Fulfills the First Game's Potential and Is One of the Greatest Soulslikes (Review)

Mortal Shell 2 is a significant step up from its modest predecessor and one of the best Soulslikes in recent memory.

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Michael Leri @orangeflavored.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"you can't open your cat food feeder that requires an app because some server is down" is a very stupid sentence that sums up how fucking dumb everything is now and also explains why our cat was so ravenous when we got home last night

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 10/08/2026

Scott Wiener, who is running to replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress, is a poster boy for how tech money also warps Democratic politician brains. He launched an AI chatbot to attack his opponent. Predictably, it was a disaster. A strange tale of AI psychosis. missionlocal.org/2026/08/sf-s...

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‘Apologize and take it down’: Scott Wiener pulls plug on Connie Chan AI chatbot

Several said the best thing for Wiener to do would be to scuttle his Connie Chan chatbot. And that came to pass.

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Michael Leri @orangeflavored.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

this was one of those reviews where I wrote it and then felt compelled to lower my score because reflecting on the game made me better realize how much its bloat, length, and repetitiveness bothered me comicbook.com/gaming/revie...

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Beast of Reincarnation Is a Wilted Rose With Too Many Thorns (Review)

Beast of Reincarnation is an inconsistent action RPG that has its few bright spots, but it constantly gets in its own way.

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Beast of Reincarnation Is a Wilted Rose With Too Many Thorns (Review)

Beast of Reincarnation is an inconsistent action RPG that has its few bright spots, but it constantly gets in its own way.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 24/07/2026

Stop listening to conservatives about anything, how about that

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Michael Leri @orangeflavored.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Denshattack is an absolutely spectacular game that uses its style and absurd set pieces to bring its people together and fight the power. It could have just been about doing tricks in a train and been great, but it's much more than that. comicbook.com/gaming/revie...

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Denshattack Review: A Lost Dreamcast-Era, Tony Hawk-Like Skater With a Phenomenal Spirit and Style

Denshattack is a bonkers skating-adjacent game with deep trick and traversal systems and a surprisingly thoughtful narrative.

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Denshattack Review: A Lost Dreamcast-Era, Tony Hawk-Like Skater With a Phenomenal Spirit and Style

Denshattack is a bonkers skating-adjacent game with deep trick and traversal systems and a surprisingly thoughtful narrative.

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Michael Leri @orangeflavored.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

the big new stuff in Resynced is mostly great, but I was more struck by all the little changes that do a lot of the heavy lifting, stuff that might not be visible unless you have an old YouTube walkthrough of the original up and are constantly comparing the two comicbook.com/gaming/revie...

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Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Beautifully Polishes One of the Series’ Shiniest Treasures (Review)

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is a great remake of the swashbuckling classic with its array of nifty changes and additions.

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Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 09/07/2026

I think if you needed any more evidence that the cuts are shortsighted and focused on cutting as deep and as fast as possible with little regard for the future, this is pretty definitive. That engine felt like magic in some spots. A colossal waste of talent and resources.

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Michael Leri @orangeflavored.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

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Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Beautifully Polishes One of the Series’ Shiniest Treasures (Review)

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is a great remake of the swashbuckling classic with its array of nifty changes and additions.

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 16/06/2026

It feels weird to sing the praises of the game when reacting to layoffs -- you shouldn't lose your job if you make a bad game, either -- but Luna Abyss is a great-looking game full of awesome ideas. The team deserves to make more together.

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Michael Leri @orangeflavored.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Luna Abyss is destined to be overlooked, but it is a deeply weird first-person shooter with a slick visual identity and surprising amount of heart that I enjoyed a lot more than I thought I would. comicbook.com/gaming/revie...

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Luna Abyss Review: A Striking Bullet Hell FPS That's as Pretty as It Is Weird

Luna Abyss makes players work to see its best elements, but this process results in a enrapturing universe with solid bullet hell combat.

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Michael Leri @orangeflavored.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

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Luna Abyss Review: A Striking Bullet Hell FPS That's as Pretty as It Is Weird

Luna Abyss makes players work to see its best elements, but this process results in a enrapturing universe with solid bullet hell combat.

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Michael Leri @orangeflavored.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

For GameSpot, I wrote about how Saros' constant defiance of its roguelike roots makes it a more bland experience with a worse story and less engaging mechanics. www.gamespot.com/articles/sar...

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Saros Doesn’t Like Being a Roguelike, So Why Is It One?

It’s hardly roguelike-like.

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Michael Leri @orangeflavored.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

For GameSpot, I wrote about how Saros' constant defiance of its roguelike roots makes it a more bland experience with a worse story and less engaging mechanics. www.gamespot.com/articles/sar...

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Saros Doesn’t Like Being a Roguelike, So Why Is It One?

It’s hardly roguelike-like.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/04/2026

I genuinely think there's something deeply wrong with anyone who finds this idea remotely appealing

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Michael Leri @orangeflavored.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Saros is an incredibly disappointing follow-up to Returnal. It sands off all of the interesting edges and scales back at every opportunity to equal a shallower roguelike with an unbalanced difficulty curve. Here's my very detailed review explaining what went wrong: comicbook.com/gaming/revie...

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Saros Is a Simpler, Shallower Spiritual Sequel (Review)

Saros' hostile alien worlds are gorgeous and its controls are tight, but it is an ultimately disappointing spiritual successor to Returnal.

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Michael Leri @orangeflavored.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Pragmata struck me as a game Capcom would have published in like 2012 if it hadn't been lost in the woods. And I loved it for that. comicbook.com/gaming/revie...

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Pragmata Is Capcom's Best New Series in Over a Decade (Review)

Despite a lengthy development cycle, Pragmata is a commendable game with wonderfully layered combat mechanics.

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Michael Leri @orangeflavored.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Pragmata struck me as a game Capcom would have published in like 2012 if it hadn't been lost in the woods. And I loved it for that. comicbook.com/gaming/revie...

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Pragmata Is Capcom's Best New Series in Over a Decade (Review)

Despite a lengthy development cycle, Pragmata is a commendable game with wonderfully layered combat mechanics.

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Michael Leri @orangeflavored.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Tamashika is very cool and I sadly haven't seen one post about it today

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