Jonathan White

It’s been a long time since I was genuinely excited for a game to come out. It’s not uncommon to play a demo and enjoy it so much that I find myself actively awaiting the release. In the case of Mina the Hollower, after seeing it for the first time at PAX West 2025, I knew this was truly going to be something special and I have been champing at the bit to get more time with it.

I’m not the biggest fan of narrative heavy games with little to no actual gameplay, but there was something captivating about Mixtape when it was first announced last summer. As a person who turned seventeen in the year 1999, I’m always baited by attempts to nostaglize my childhood, as if my generation deserves the chance to leave behind its answer to The Goonies. Does Mixtape deliver the hits or should it be dubbed over in your Talkboy?

Dead as Disco is a tale as old as time. Band has drummer, drummer is killed, drummer is revived ten years later and has to beat the piss out of his old band mates to reform the band. Ya know, all the makings of a revenge story, with some early seeds planted in the unfolding narrative to make you think your band mates know more than what they’re telling you. Our friend Charlie Disco returns from beyond that dance floor in the sky to find out what happened to him.