Ubisoft’s Far Cry series has found a comfortable formula. Players wander around the wilderness shooting up bad guys, setting things on fire, capturing outposts, and being terrified of the chit-chittering of the honey badger. Far Cry: Primal tinkered with the basic formula a bit. Players take on the role of a prehistoric beast-master, outfitted with…
Do you do any shopping on Amazon.com? We do! A ton in fact. We’re Amazon Affiliates, and if you want to help good ol’ Handsome Phantom out, click on our link before you make purchases on Amazon.com. You’ll pay the same dollar amount you would regularly. The only thing that changes is we will get…
It’s ridiculous to think about, but the Nintendo Switch is turning one year old this week. Can you believe it has been a whole year already? It feels like just yesterday that pre-orders went live and we had to choose between grey and neon Joy-Cons. Perhaps you waited a bit after launch to see if this would…
Continuing the recent trend of remasters and remakes, Nightdive Studios has announced that they will be bringing their re-releases of Turok Dinosaur Hunter and Turok 2 Seeds of Evil to the Xbox One. Making a splash on the scene back on the Nintendo 64, Turok has never been able to reach that cult classic status…
I evolved a lot as a gamer throughout my life, especially over the past decade. Though I have always love playing video games, I would tend to focus on multiplayer experiences over single player experiences for many different reasons. One of which was skill. Though I have always loved to play games, I wasn’t always good at…
Valentine’s Day is a great time for everyone to celebrate romance, whether you’re single, partnered up, or in a polygamous sex cult. It’s the perfect excuse to watch romantic movies, load up on chocolate, or maybe slide into some DM’s. As a gamer, there are tons of games that have great love stories. Here are…
With the Chinese New Year rapidly approaching, Handsome Phantom has found the perfect opportunity to celebrate dogs in video games. From pixelated puppers to scientifically enhanced canines, there are tons of great dogs in video games. Today we’ll be looking at five of our favorite doggos, and the first is a real diamond of a…
This article was written by community contributor Karen Ragenroll! Women in video games are often over-sexualized and put down as damsels in distress waiting for a man to help them and save them from whichever evil that befalls them. However, game creators have also enchanted us with some of the finest heroines in the world. These are strong, fearful…
2017 will go down as one of the best years in video game history, but at this point that’s old news. As we look ahead at what 2018 has to offer, we ask the big question – can 2018 even touch the hem of 2017’s garment?
“To go it alone or to go with a partner? When you choose a partner, you have to have compromises and sacrifices, but it’s a price you pay. Do I want to follow my every whim and desire as I make my way through time and space? Absolutely. But at the end of the day,…
