Malcolm Schmitz

Malcolm Schmitz

Malcolm Schmitz is a freelance writer from the United States. He loves life sims, JRPGs, and strategy games, and loves modding games even more than he loves playing them.
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13 Best Video Games To Play On Christmas

Some people like to get in the Christmas spirit by caroling, looking at Christmas lights, or shopping for presents. Some people get in the Christmas spirit with a favorite Christmas movie or a favorite TV special they come back to…

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11 Best Puzzle Games of All Time

Brain-teasers. Headscratchers. Riddles, enigmas, and conundrums. If you want your head to be more than an eyebrow holder, you can pick up a puzzle game and practice using your noggin. There are so many good puzzle games that it’s hard…

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First Look: Astronaut The Best

Space travel: it’s stupider than you think. That might as well be the tagline for AstroNaut The Best, an upcoming “occult management roguelite adventure” from Universal Happymaker. In this game, you take on the role of the leader of a…

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The 10 Best RTS Games of All Time

If you ask any group of gamers what the best games of all time are, one of them is likely to be an RTS game. The combination of fast-paced tactical battles, slow base-building, and competing against fiendish opponents makes for…

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Pharaoh: A New Era Review

I have a love-hate relationship with older strategy games. I love the creativity that goes into making a game work with so few resources available to the developers. With a few frames of animation, a handful of static images, and…