Alex Orona

1 week ago | culturecombine.com | Alex Orona

Alex Orona17 minutes ago1 min readC2E2 has been poppin' off this week at the McCormick Place in Chicago and one of the big highlights was the announcement of the new DC Elseworlds limited series Immortal Legend Batman; a six issue series co-written by Mat Groom of Radiant Black and art by Erica D’Urso of Captain Marvel. The series will be taking inspiration from Japanese tokusatsu superhero stories and classic westerns mixed with its own Batman spin.

2 weeks ago | culturecombine.com | Alex Orona

Wednesday April 2nd the world was finally given its first look at the Nintendo Switch 2 and with it came a litany of reveals, but even more questions. We were finally able to confirm a lot of the patent leaks and design docks, but the bigger political implications still loom as a dark cloud over what is to be the next big console release. The Switch 2 at its core is a more powerful Switch.

1 month ago | startmenu.co.uk | Alex Orona

Three times a year, we are blessed with Steam’s Next Fest, a festival of demos for games that are coming out this year. It’s always a treasure trove of indies and unheard of gems if you are willing to go digging. But with a load of big releases coming out the last few weeks, we’ve decided to help out once again and done some of the digging for you. Here is what we loved from Steam Next Fest.

1 month ago | culturecombine.com | Alex Orona

Three times a year Steam puts on the Steam Next Fest, a festival of game demos unlike what we’ve seen in gaming since the early days of demos discs . Hundreds of demos for up and coming games are released and promoted to get more eyes on what’s coming in the year, and I’ve put together a list of some of my favorites from the February 2025 Steam Next Fest.

2 months ago | startmenu.co.uk | Alex Orona

The PS5 port of the game is kind of a mess. The game runs relatively smoothly as long as it’s in a fixed camera view. Once you start to spin the camera around, especially if there’s foliage, it begins to chug something fierce. Stuttering is pretty normal in the larger forested areas, but funny enough, in densely populated downtown sections it could handle the large amount of characters onscreen. That is, until I would spin the camera around to get everything around Terry rendered.