Re:bound

For the bum on a budget, this chair has you covered.

IGN snootily turned down an offer to review the Nex Playground around its 2023 release. And why not? It’s a casual games console from a company with no cachet in the space – a colorful little cube whose primary input method is your own body, via an ultra-wide camera lens on the front of the system. And yet, like the Wii before it, this underestimated machine (scoffed by elite gaming media types everywhere!) managed to outsell Microsoft’s Xbox consoles over the 2025 holidays. Were we, the gaming media, wrong? So now, here I am as one of IGN’s child-having freelance writers, with a review of the

Games are for dads. Thanks to video games, dads can play golf, build birdhouses, mow the lawn, and go fishing... all without leaving the home office. But what do games like Powerwash Simulator, Train Sim World 2, and The Golf Club have to offer the childless urban-dwelling millennial? Pat Gill reviews a selection of powerful dad games to glean life lessons and fatherly insight into the world of dads ... and his own psyche.

Review: Buddy sees Too Many Cooks director Casper Kelly overcome some significant pacing hitches to deliver a singular horror-comedy that delights in subverting the treacly sweetness of kids’ TV with lots of sticky blood and a smart take on some heavier themes.

Review: John Boorman and the Devil is a fun and engrossing look at the creation of what is considered to be one of the worst sequels ever made.