Books, Reviews February 18, 2023 Gutbliss by Robynne Chutkan I’ve read mainstream doctor authors (Hyman, Gundry, Mercola, Perlmutter, etc.) and more than a handful of books about food, the microbiome, and digestion. Gutbliss showed me how little I actually knew about the workings of our guts. Celebrity cardiologists and neurologists write much about diet, but they’re not gastroenterologists. Their books never explain how or ...
Books, Reviews February 17, 2023 Land Without Justice: An Autobiography of His Youth by Milovan Djilas Last October on our trip to Kansas City to see the Bills play the Chiefs, I was lucky to find Land Without Justice at Steel’s Used Books. Mr. Steel sold us a goodly pile of interesting books at a reasonable price. We were sorry to hear that in the years prior, he’d been forced to ...
Reviews, Video Games January 27, 2023 Star Wars Battlefront II: Review EA's Lootbox-Free Battlefront Game Is Part Shooter, Part Fighter, And Completely Mesmerizing If a time traveler visited me when I was in college and told me that in the year 2020, I would be eating Star Wars “Rebel Crunch” yogurt while wearing my favorite Chewbacca shirt, I would have called him a liar and a lunatic. In those days, my favorite movies were Stalker, Yojimbo, Santa Sangre, ...
Reviews, Video Games January 27, 2023 Five Reasons We Uninstalled Ghost Recon: Breakpoint Breakpoint Is Not the Game We Thought We Bought, but We Couldn't Get Into What it Is, Either This year at Co-op Gaming Dot Info, we spent the dog days of summer playing Ghost Recon: Wildlands. We loved that game. We never wanted to stop playing it. We even played its DLCs. You can imagine how hotly we anticipated Breakpoint’s release. In fact, we dreamt of playing Ghost Recon indefinitely. We wanted to ...
Reviews, Video Games January 27, 2023 Four Reasons We Uninstalled Dauntless A Lack of Inspiration With a Wealth of Microtransactions Made Us Dislike Dauntless Here at Co-op Gaming Dot Info, we usually review games we’ve relentlessly played for months. For a game to keep our attention every night, it’s usually awesome. We wanted to give more coverage to games that we tried and decided not to play—games that didn’t give us a moment’s hesitation when we uninstalled them to ...
Reviews, Video Games January 27, 2023 Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands: Review Simple Tools, Objectives, and Systems Give Players Carte Blanche in This Cerebral Game. Highly Recommended. Ghost Recon: Wildlands is the most pure and refined two-player video game we’ve ever played. It’s fitting that the game’s subject matter is cocaine—playing is a chemical-like experience where you’re locked into each moment, and clearing your head as the future unfolds is a struggle. Focus. That’s what Wildlands demands of its players, and the ...
Books, Reviews, Video Games February 3, 2023 Death by Video Game: Review Simon Parkin's 2015 Book Doesn't Deliver On Its Premise Browsing for books about video games on Amazon, I didn’t find many options. Death by Video Game: Tales of Obsession from the Virtual Frontline was easily the most sensationalist title. Its description reads, “In Taiwan, a spate of deaths at gaming cafés is raising a question: why is it that some of us are playing ...
Reviews, Video Games February 17, 2023 Fear and Loathing in Tamriel: Elder Scrolls Online Review BETHESDA AND ZENIMAX PROVED THEIR ANTIPATHY TOWARD PLAYERS WITH ESO LONG BEFORE FALLOUT 76 FLOPPED. NOT RECOMMENDED It’s hard to believe that many gamers today—especially console gamers—have never experienced a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game. The labyrinthine systems and infinite grind at the core of The Elder Scrolls Online are familiar to anyone who cruised the pixelated forests of Everquest or World of Warcraft on a PC. These and other MMORPG arrangements—the ...
Reviews, Video Games January 27, 2023 Fortnite: Save the World Review Seamlessly creative and collaborative group play paired with astonishingly adaptable skill, build, and loot systems make for an addictive game. Highly Recommended Fortnite: Save the World is the PvE component of the cultural phenomenon known as Fortnite. As adults in our 30s, jaded and out of the loop, we wanted nothing to do with a game beloved by children and millennials. We’re all familiar with (and sick of hearing about) Fortnite’s slick building interface, addictive pickaxe-looting playstyle, ...
Reviews, Video Games January 27, 2023 Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker Review Sexy, Sophisticated Combat Can't Compensate for Punishing Game Systems and a Dearth of PVE Content. Slightly Recommended In Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker, teams of four fight to the death or in missions involving the manga’s villains, heroes, and lovable tailed beasts. Ninjas jump and dodge through the air across sandy cliffs and cloud-drenched towers. They unleash fireballs, lightning attacks, and devastating special ninjutsu skills in conjunction with triangle-square weapon combos. The game ...
