Danielle Riendeau

Danielle Riendeau

Danielle is the Editor-in-Chief of this delightful website, as well as a part time game design and film professor, volunteer EMT, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Blue Belt (really working for purple one day), and a hobbysist game developer and screenwriter. She has two kitties and a puppy, all of whom are obscenely cute.

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Cozy Grove Broken Heart Imp Guide: How to Help The Imps

If you’ve been playing Cozy Grove for at least a few days, you’ve probably seen imps running around with big, cartoonish “broken heart” emoji bubbles. They also seem to want chocolate bonbons,...

My Journey Through the Beautiful, Ambitious, Ridiculous Mess of Star Trek TOS

I have been watching a truly wild amount of Star Trek here in quarantine. I’m currently nearing the end of my rewatch of Star Trek: The Original Series (or TOS). This comes after my...

Welcome to Kill It With Fire, a Tiny Immersive Sim about Hunting Spiders

Immersive sims — like Arkane’s masterful Prey and the Dishonored series — are pretty much my favorite games of all time (see also: platformers and Into the Breach). There is nothing more...

Last Night, I Time Traveled in Animal Crossing

If you listen to Fanwidth, you’ve heard about just how much Animal Crossing: New Horizons has wormed a little bell-shaped hole in my brain. I play it every single day — and have, since the day...

Getting an S-Rank from the Happy Home Academy in Animal Crossing: A Review

The other night, I decided to do a little chill, late night stream with Animal Crossing: New Horizons, a game I’ve played every day since launch, way back at the end of March. The aim: to act...

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Shooting Stars Guide - How to Mine Star Fragments

Even though most of us (who aren’t playing with time manipulation, that is) are only on day four of our Animal Crossing: New Horizons adventures, there’s a cool secret to mini...

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This EMT is making a game about saving lives in NYC

There is nothing in America like the 911 system in New York City.

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Crush Your Enemies review impressions

Crush Your Enemies is a textbook example of “don’t judge a book by its cover” in practice. It looks a little underwhelming — with its cartoony barbarian art and doofy storyline about a bunch...

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Overwatch Review

It takes a lot for an FPS to impress me. I would consider myself only the most casual fan of the genre, someone who enjoys the off-kilter offerings (the BioShocks, the recent DOOM, etc.), and just dab...

Outer Wilds is Best Played with a Co-pilot

I was pretty sure I was going to dig Outer Wilds, Mobius Digital’s impressive space exploration/puzzle adventure. My recent coworker Austin Walker recommended it highly, as one of those speci...

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The new Ghostbusters is awesome. Here's why.

I went into the new Ghostbusters with some degree of trepidation.

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Watch us play the best bits of Gears of War 4

Gears of War 4 is out today, and it is every bit the polished, bro-y-but-inclusive action shooter that previous entries have been. Join us on our action-movie journey to beat The Swarm, as played by Z...

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Watch us play Destiny: Rise of Iron

Destiny‘s latest major expansion, Rise of Iron, is finally upon us. Join Zam’s resident Destineer Steven Strom as he explores the icy wilderness of Fell Winter Peak and the DLC’s fin...

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Pokemon Go is coming to Apple Watch this year

At today’s Apple event, Niantic Labs announced that it’s rather popular Pokemon Go will be arriving on Apple Watch. The gadget will alert you whenever Pokestops are nearby, and when a Pokemon...

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Let's Play Near Death

Near Death is a survival sim with a strong story and creepy The Thing vibes. You play as a pilot who crash lands at an abandoned Antarctic station in 1982, with nothing but a space h...

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Sacramento is a trip. A really pretty trip.

Sacramento is a gorgeous little watercolor ‘walking simulator’ by Itch.io creator DZiff (with sound by Glass Body). I played a bunch and fell a little bit in love with the dreamy, wistful tone of the...

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Let's Play Zombie Night Terror

Zombie Night Terror is a unique puzzle/RTS hybrid that puts you in the director’s chair of an ongoing zombie apocalypse movie. Your goal — to infect as many people as you can and reign suprem...

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Okhlos is like Ancient Greek Pikmin, but angry

Okhlos is a rowdy, light-RTS/action game with an Ancient Greek theme and a heaping helping of chaos. You play as a little 8-bit philosopher, fed up with the whims of the gods and fighting mad. To that...

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Cute pets of the internet react to Pokemon Go

Pokemon Go is everywhere — in your local park, at that bar down the street, in your bathroom, and er, between the sheets. And it seems like everyone is playing it — here in Brooklyn, I’ve hun...

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Time to Die Adventures is a rad, free dungeon crawler

Time to Die Adventures is an awesome – and free – little dungeon crawler from itch.io creator thatwhichis. You can try the game right here for a little baddie-bashing, dungeon-exploring,...