Kurt John Palomaria, Author at Sirus Gaming https://sirusgaming.com/author/kurtpaloma/ Video Game News, Reviews, and Features Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:00:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://sirusgaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Sirus-Favicon-32x32.png Kurt John Palomaria, Author at Sirus Gaming https://sirusgaming.com/author/kurtpaloma/ 32 32 Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy – Review https://sirusgaming.com/resonance-a-plague-tale-legacy-review/ Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:00:13 +0000 https://sirusgaming.com/?p=230085 Developer: Asobo StudioPublisher: Focus EntertainmentReviewed On: PS5Available On: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|SRelease Date: August 27, 2026Review Copy Provided By: Focus Entertainment I’ve always been a fan of the Plague Tale series. Amicia and Hugo got me instantly, that us against the world story, where two kids only ever had each other hit really close [...]

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]]> Mortal Shell II – Review https://sirusgaming.com/mortal-shell-ii-review/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://sirusgaming.com/?p=230007 Developer: Cold SymmetryPublisher: PlayStackReviewed On: PS5Available On: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|SRelease Date: August 20, 2026Review Copy Provided By: PlayStack A cosmic deity crashed upon its lands, inspiring devotion and worship among the people, which ultimately turned into frenzied despair among warring factions. That’s where you come in. You are a being “not of this earth,” awakened for the sole purpose [...]

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]]> SAROS: Tips, Tricks, Thrive https://sirusgaming.com/saros-tips-tricks-thrive/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:16:22 +0000 https://sirusgaming.com/?p=228026 I’ve spent more than twenty hours in the ruins and ruinations of Carcosa. It has kicked my ass more times than I can count, but I’ve enjoyed every minute of it. Still, there’s plenty I wish I knew before I first stepped into this madness. That sense of going in blind has its own magic, [...]

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]]> SAROS – Review https://sirusgaming.com/saros-review/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://sirusgaming.com/?p=227993 “Along the shore the cloud waves break, the twin suns sink behind the lake, the shadows lengthen… in Carcosa.” Long before Saros, Robert W. Chambers imagined Carcosa in The King in Yellow, a real book orbiting a fictional play that shattered those who read it, and the tattered king who loomed behind it. Saros taps [...]

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]]> REANIMAL – Review https://sirusgaming.com/reanimal-review/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 03:05:11 +0000 https://sirusgaming.com/?p=227333 I could feel the crease in my brow stiffen as I picked my jaw up off the floor. For the third time that day. And it wasn’t because of some cheap jump scare. It was because of the sights. The sounds. The sheer, unfiltered wrongness of what Reanimal kept putting in front of me. After [...]

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]]> How Talking About The Outer Worlds 2 Made Me Believe in Obsidian All Over Again https://sirusgaming.com/how-talking-about-the-outer-worlds-2-made-me-believe-in-obsidian-all-over-again/ Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://sirusgaming.com/?p=226814 Hearing Leonard Boyarsky laugh felt like breaking the fourth wall of my own fandom. Here’s the man who helped build the games I’ve spent hundreds of hours in and now he’s laughing at one of my dumb jokes. If teenage me could’ve seen this, he’d think we did all right. When I got the chance [...]

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]]> The Outer Worlds 2 – Review https://sirusgaming.com/the-outer-worlds-2-review/ Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://sirusgaming.com/?p=226800 In every save file, The Outer Worlds 2 keeps count, marking the time you’ve spent exploring its worlds. Mine reads: a day and eight hours. I’m sure that includes all the time I spent jetpacking across its stunning planets, landing sliding slow-motion headshots like a spacefaring gunslinger. It should also include the hours I spent [...]

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]]> Hades 2 and the Games I Regret Buying https://sirusgaming.com/hades-2-and-the-games-i-regret-buying/ Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:20:59 +0000 https://sirusgaming.com/?p=226761 I swiped down on the function bar on my phone, turned on auto-rotate, bumped up the brightness, and put the right earbud in my wife’s left ear. “You gotta see this,” I said. We were on our way to a bowling alley in the city, and it just hit me. The game was Ball X [...]

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]]> Little Nightmares III – Demo Impressions https://sirusgaming.com/little-nightmares-iii-demo-impressions/ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:51:04 +0000 https://sirusgaming.com/?p=226484 The flies circling rotting pans of food are startled as childlike figures dash past, desperate to escape an immeasurable giant. Little Nightmares is back! Creeping closer, like the monsters it so loves to conjure. We’ve been fans of the series since the first game’s protagonist, Six, whose bright yellow raincoat became an icon of innocence [...]

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]]> Silksong Is Proof: Be Careful What You Wish For https://sirusgaming.com/silksong-is-proof-be-careful-what-you-wish-for/ Fri, 12 Sep 2025 18:29:26 +0000 https://sirusgaming.com/?p=226231 As we deplaned, bags in tow, I couldn’t help but notice my wife sneering at me. “What?” I asked. “Do I look ridiculous lugging all these heavy bags?” She laughed. “No. I just noticed you’re still stuck at the same level you were at in the airport.” She was right. I wasn’t weighed down by [...]

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