‘Dungeon Girl’ Offers Cheery Dungeon Delving And Elaborate Crafting

My Dungeon Girl experience took quite the turn: at first I thought “all of this is utterly pointless.” A few hours later I was hooked. That’s because your first forays into the game’s dungeons are simply overwhelming. It explains all of its various mechanisms at once and in great detail, and this wall of text […]

Harold Halibut is like a cheery BioShock under an alien sea

Too often, depictions of postapocalyptic society focus on grimdark, gritty, and gruesome. But Harold Halibut offers another perspective: dreamy and awkward, channeling Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic. It’s a PC point-and-click adventure with a stop-motion aesthetic, and it’s the debut effort from German indie studio Slow Bros. The studio has been working on Harold Halibut for over […]

Scorpion Sneak Peek: Happy Jeers Cheery Paige (in a Dangling Gondola!)

This Monday on CBS’ Scorpion, Paige’s attempt to keep things light as she and Happy sit tight in a precarious gondola winds up triggering a war of words. RELATED2017 Renewal Scorecard: What’s Coming Back? What’s Getting Cancelled? What’s on the Bubble? In the episode titled (ahem) “Broken Wind” (airing Monday at 10/9c), Team Scorpion  — […]