Christian Thoma

Trinity Fusion is the most recent game I’ve played to completion, and it’s quite the fun one. A metroidvania more akin to Metroid than to the (Castle)vania, it’s about sci-fi worlds that need to be merged in order to be saved — and you’re one of the few with avatars on all four of the worlds and therefore you get to play the hero. The main deviation from the standard formula is that it also embraces the rogue-lite formula popularized by games like Hades. Explore, die, repeat — but with the opportunity to play as different a person each time.

The story is a little light and sometimes it felt like the game did a poor choice of explaining what your current task was, but the gameplay, graphics and sound are amazing. I struggled with it more than typical because of its rogue-lite nature — having to reset each time I died ran counter to my standard metroidvania tactic of banging my head against a boss until I finally got it down — but eventually I was able to defeat the big bads and save the worlds. I’m looking forward to revisiting it when more free DLC is released (there have been two so far), but now I’m content to play something else for a bit.

While I download Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix+ let’s answer some questions!

The War Within Season 1 continues and this week sees the return of the Aggregation of Horrors in the Ringing Deeps.

The War Within Season 1 continues alongside the 20th Anniversary and the World Boss we get to kill this week is Kordac the Dormant Protector in the Isle of Dorn.

It’s dark out when I get home after work now, so when we walk Marshmallow we’re sure to wear reflective vests, pay attention to cars that aren’t likely paying attention to us, and being sure to keep light around us at all times so that the Grue doesn’t get us. We’ve been lucky so far, but I’m starting to run low on torches and the Solstice is still more than a month away. Some might say I should walk Marshmallow at lunch instead of after work; others might point out there’s no such thing as a Grue.

Still, I’m not taking any chances.

So while I break off chair legs and douse them in gasoline for easy ignition, let’s answer some questions!

The Janthir Wilds has been out for three months now and that means it's time for the first free quarterly post-expansion release.

The War Within Season 1 continues and we’ve made another full circuit of all the World Bosses with the return this week of Orta the Broken Mountain in Azj-Kahet.

This is the tenth year of The Game Awards and Geoff Keighley's baby has grown into an entire industry like the Oscars and Grammys.

The next expansion in the World of Warcraft Worldsoul Saga is Midnight and with 2025's roadmap published we can attempt to predict when it might arrive.

As they have done for the past few years, the World of Warcraft development team has released a roadmap for the upcoming year.

World of Warcraft is maintaining an aggressive content schedule through the end of 2024, with patch 11.0.7 launching earlier than we expected: the WoW patch 11.0.7 release date is December 17, 2024.