Alexx Aplin | Phenixx Gaming

Someone Should Bring Back Marvel Heroes

Games are canceled regularly these days. With multiplayer games like MMOs and Live-Service games, of course eventually things are going to get shut down. However, I’d like to discuss one game that was shut down that should make a return in one…

2024 in Games: A Review

At the end of the year, I always like to look back and see how the gaming industry performed. I think anyone who pays attention to gaming trends can usually tell when a year is less interesting or enticing than others. 2024…

Phenixx Gaming’s Game of the Year 2024

It’s that time again! The team at Phenixx Gaming has come together to deliver details on our Games of the Year for 2024. Because we come from such different backgrounds and gaming styles, we don’t just pick one game for our entire…

Dreamlight Valley 2024: The Upside of Live-Service

I am not a fan of most live-service games. Outside of Honkai Star Rail and one or two others, the concept gets exhausting after a while. I only have so much time to play games, and I would rather immerse myself in…

Inbento (PC) Review

Food is a large factor in how people come together. Family units, friend groups, so many people bond over food. Inbento is a logic-based, sliding-based puzzle game that melds the love of food with puzzles and a heartfelt narrative. Inbento is a…

Balatro (PC) Review

I love a good bit of Poker every now and then. I’m not exactly a gambler, but there was a time when I enjoyed visiting friends for Poker night. LocalThunk’s Balatro simulates the idea of Poker, mixing it with something else I…

Phenixx Gaming’s 2024 Holiday Greetings

We have survived another year everyone! With storms, flooding in the Sahara Desert (that actually happened), and a variety of other climate-based issues, it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that getting to the end of 2024 was an exercise in tenacity…

Alexx’s Steam Winter Sale Recommendations

It’s that time again folks! Valve has hit the big red button and is holding our wallets at gunpoint. Hundreds of games are on sale, and it is hard to pick through the noise and decide what to buy, right? Well, here…

Penny Blood: Hellbound Now Available on Steam

I keep an eye on a lot of early-access games, especially Rogue-likes. However, after a while sometimes games slip through my field of view and I forget for a while. Penny Blood: Hellbound is one such game. However, it just came back…

Agatha Christie – Death on the Nile Announced

As a fan of classic mystery fiction, including work by Agatha Christie herself, I love the resurgence in the popularity of her work over the last few years. Microids has done well to create a variety of solid games (though they have…