Reading Roundup

The Adventures of Elliot: The Millenium Tales isn't quite the Zelda-beater everyone thought it could be, but reviews agree it's not too bad.

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

Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight has a lot to live up to, but early reviews indicate that it's exactly what Batman: Arkham fans are looking for.