Baldur’s Gate 3 Gameplay Reveal Coming to PAX East
Larian is once again making their way to a PAX event! Featuring their massively successful Kickstarted board game based on the Divinity Original Sin video game and recently announced that they will be doing a Baldur’s Gate 3 gameplay reveal! Baldur’s Gate 3 has been in development for a few years now and is slated to come out later this year. Originally made by Bioware, the Baldur̵...[Read More]
Untitled Goose Game wins GOTY at DICE
“this is extremely weird” – Developer House House tweeted today along with a screenshot of DICE Game of the Year winners. Notable games like Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time, Breath of the Wild, God of War, and Diablo 2 are on the list and the latest addition at the very bottom is Untitled Goose Game. That’s right Untitled Goose Game won this years GOTY at DICE awards. The d...[Read More]
The Longing (Steam) Hands-On Preview
Games these days tend to lean towards the quick and snappy side of things. Whether it’s the ability to hop in and do a couple of rounds online or move through a compelling story, the pacing often mandates that things progress or conclude typically within a couple of hours for each session. The Longing aims to challenge that idea with the concept of rewarding patience. The Longing follows a y...[Read More]
The Outer Worlds Switch Release
A few months ago in October Obsidian revisited the first-person RPG genre that they earned praise for with Fallout: New Vegas. Their new IP allowed them to create new and exciting ideas and locations while expanding on some existing ideas. The writing was fun and the entire experience was an adventurous romp of vintage science fiction, down to the old school 50’s space guns and graphic desig...[Read More]
Daddy Gamer Episode 13 Untitled Goose Game
A new episode of Daddy Gamer featuring everyone’s favorite water fowl from Untitled Goose Game has finally arrived after a ton of major updates to the show.
Lightmatter (Steam) Review
When I think of 3D puzzle platformers, my mind immediately jumps to the critically acclaimed Portal and it’s sequel Portal 2. Those games featured a fun sense of humor, a straightforward goal that featured some mystery and intrigue underneath, and of course some pretty amazing puzzles to solve. Providing players with all the tools necessary to solve each puzzle presented and making them feel like ...[Read More]
Top Games of the Decade by Year
Wow, another decade has come and gone and along with it came lots of video games! We here at Marooner’s Rock clearly love video games, but it can be incredibly difficult to narrow down the top games of a single year, let alone an entire decade. So we made it slightly easier on ourselves by making a Top Games list where we all got a pick for each year. The result, I think, is a nice collectio...[Read More]
Pokemon Direct 1/9/2020 Announced
A new direct has been announced, and it’s Pokemon “center”ed! On January 9th at 6:30 AM PT/9:30 AM ET. This announcement doesn’t give much clue into what it will be about but with it being so fresh off the heels of the release of Sword and Shield people are curious. These types of game or series centric events are reserved for new games, but we just got new games, so what c...[Read More]
Folk Metal “Toss a Coin to your Witcher” Cover Rocks
“Toss a coin to your Witcher, oh valley of plenty, oh valley of plenty, ohohooooh”. If you are anything like me, this simple line has been stuck in your head since hearing the song on the recently released Witcher series on Netflix starring Henry Cavill as Geralt, but in this particular case and perhaps more importantly also stars Joey Batey as the bard Jaskier. Jaskier sings the song after one of...[Read More]
AGDQ 2020 Start the Decade with Charity and Fast Games
The annual Awesome Games Done Quick, or AGDQ, marathon is only a few days away! Starting Sunday, January 5th, and not stopping till January 12th AGDQ 2020 will be raising money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. This year the event is hosted in Orlando, Florida but will be primarily watched on Twitch around the world. It’s a phenomenal achievement that they have accomplished being the single...[Read More]
The Ultimate RPG Gameplay Guide (Book) Review
Last year I was able to read and review The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide, which aimed to give players the tools to help create more interesting and more engaging backstories for their characters in Tabletop Roleplaying Games or TTRPGs. Whether it is Dungeons & Dragons, Dread, or Kids on Bikes that guide was there an excellent tool for players and game masters. Since then, I’ve used i...[Read More]
Shovel Knight – King of Cards (PC) Review
I have had the recent joy of experiencing Shovel Knight for the first time. Unlike everyone else who played the game already, I didn’t have to wait years between new content. I got it all in one shot. Knowing how good it is, waiting must have been brutal! Well here I am now catching up on 2015’s stellar original platformer from Yacht Club Games with not only the original game but all of the ...[Read More]