Month: May 2026

For this week’s critical play, I chose the classic gambling game poker via 247 Free Poker, a browser based version of Texas Hold’em with…

Luigi’s Picture Poker is a single-player, chance-based casino minigame created by Marcy4000 and playable on a browser platform. The target audience seems to be…

Pay-to-Skill: How CrossFire Sells the Shortcut Around Practice CrossFire, known in China as *Chuan Yue Huo Xian* (穿越火线) or CF, is a free-to-play first-person…

For this week’s critical play I played Brawl Stars, a free-to-play top-down mobile arena brawler made by Supercell and released in 2018. It was…

I played the card game Flip 7 with my family. It is a physical card game made by Eric Olsen, targeting families, casual party…

At first, Minecraft didn’t seem like the type of game that can be read as a text with something to “say”. There is no…

Honor of Kings (王者荣耀), developed by TiMi Studio Group and published by Tencent, is the most-played mobile MOBA on earth, a free, 5v5 phone…

For this week’s Critical Play, I played Brawl Stars which is a mobile battle royale game that uses a “live service” business model. The…