The Besties
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Mina the Hollower Is GOTY Quality
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Mina the Hollower is a delicious 7-layer dip of beloved video games. It looks and feels like a gothic Zelda, but its influences stretch far beyond Nintendo’s action-adventure series. The Besties are joined...
Forza Horizon 6 Wants You to Love It
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Forza Horizon 6 wants you to be happy forever. It features a colossal open world that reimagines Japan, stuffed with more free cars than you’ll ever have time to drive – let alone upgrade. You can win race...
Mixtape Is a Musical Magic Trick
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Mixtape arrived alongside a flood of euphoric reviews and a variety of discourses across various social media platforms and gaming groups. With a tiny bit of distance, we talk through what...
Saros Is More Bullet Heaven than Bullet Hell
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Saros is the continuation of decades of bullet-dodging action games from Housemarque. But it has most in common with the team’s previous game, Returnal. Is this game welcoming enough to bring...
Vampire Crawlers and a Big Besties Update
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This is a big week of change at The Besties. But before we get to the news, we all want to chat about one of the strangest spin-offs in indie games. Vampire Crawlers adapts the iconic Vampire Survivors int...
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