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  • Toxic Commando – We’ve Seen These Zombies Before

    Toxic Commando gives you hordes, class abilities, and the rare joy of turning a police cruiser into a zombie-clearing projectile. Familiar? Yes. Fun? Also yes—sometimes.

  • Dave the Diver – Too Much Sushi on the Plate

    Dave the Diver combines underwater exploration with sushi restaurant management—and then keeps adding more. Its core loop is satisfying, charming, and dangerously addictive, but a seemingly endless parade of characters, mechanics, and minigames eventually leaves the experience feeling overstuffed.

  • Gauntlet Dark Legacy (GC) – Goblins, Secrets, and Poor Financial Decisions

    Gauntlet Dark Legacy stuffed an absurd amount of action, secrets, characters, and arcade nonsense onto the GameCube. More than 20 years later, it’s still hard to put down.

  • 2XKO – The World’s Least Surprising Eulogy

    Riot is ending active development on 2XKO, bringing one of gaming’s least surprising train wrecks to its inevitable conclusion. The servers will live on—but what exactly is left?

  • Picture – Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow

    Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow trade two different versions of heartbreak in “Picture,” a surprisingly tender song about regret, distance, and the inability to let an old love stay in the past.

  • California – Joni Mitchell

    Joni Mitchell’s California blends wanderlust, homesickness, and the nagging question of whether the place you left behind will still take you as you are.

  • Good Kid, m.A.A.d City – Kendrick Lamar

    Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid, m.A.A.d City isn’t just a collection of standout tracks—it’s a fully realized narrative. A “short film” in album form that never gives you a reason to skip.

  • Gloomy Sunday – Ricky Nelson

    Ricky Nelson strips one of the most famously depressing songs ever written down to little more than his voice and an acoustic guitar. The result is an intimate portrait of grief, longing, and a Sunday that is extremely deserving of the adjective “gloomy.”

  • Time in a Bottle – Jim Croce

    Jim Croce’s Time in a Bottle is a haunting meditation on love, mortality, and the wish for more time with the person who matters most.

  • Astro Bot – PlayStation’s New Platforming Legend

    What looked like a PlayStation tech demo became one of the biggest surprises of the generation. Astro Bot is a joyful collectathon packed with creativity, nostalgia, and some of the best platforming in years.