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Days Gone: Has the Highly-Anticipated PlayStation Release Lived up to the Hype?

This post is a sponsored advertisement and does contain an advertisement link. Posts like this help support the site. Post-apocalyptic survival blockbuster Days Gone was among the most hyped new releases of 2019 and it finally launched to great fanfare on April 26. Open world. titles like Red Dead Redemption, Grand Theft Auto and Far Cry have been outrageously popular in recent times and the zombie genre is flourishing. Days Gone therefore looked perfectly poised to capture the zeitgeist and Sony’s marketing team did a great job in ramping up the excitement among the PS4 community. But has it lived up to the hype? Is it destined to become a modern classic after dazzling with its brilliance and ingenuity, or is it simply another bland and tiresome addition to an oversaturated genre? The answer probably lies somewhere in between. Critics’ Reception It is fair to say that Days Gone has received a distinctly lukewarm reception among critics. The Verge referred to it as a “lavishly pro...

Party Hard Tycoon Early Access Review

Platforms: PC (Early Access) Reviewed On: PC Developers: Pinokl Games Publisher: Tiny Build Games Singleplayer: Yes Multiplayer: No Preview code supplied free of charge by the publisher In Party Hard Tycoon your job is to run a business planning and hosting kickass parties across a variety of locations from abandoned buildings to tiny clubs to tropical beaches and even lavish casinos. Launching on October 19th as an Early Access title this is the game that finally lets you live out your dreams of picking out which absurdly large speaker to use. Hint: the biggest one. The basics go a bit like this; you choose one of your available unlocked locations, pick a theme for the party that matches the locale, select some personnel to take with you and then proceed to spend your cash on speakers, food, drink, decor and lighting in order to keep the guests lining up to pay the entry fee and then spend the rest of their cash on booze, food or even arcade machines. If you succeed in pleasi...