By Dean Solano My first voyage with Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag was not in 2013. I played it years later on my PS4, after I had already fallen in love with Assassin’s Creed Origins and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Those were the games that pushed me deeper into Assassin’s Creed and eventually made me curious about the older titles that helped build the franchise into what it was. That probably affected the way I saw Black Flag from the very beginning. I loved the game. The writing was great, Edward Kenway quickly became one of my favorite protagonists in the…
Author: Dean Solano
Halo is one of those franchises I have always kept coming back to. I have played through Combat Evolved, followed Master Chief across the series, and experienced how Halo changed from one generation to the next. I know what the older games feel like, I know why longtime fans are attached to their slower pacing and distinct atmosphere, and I also know what it feels like to play Halo after growing up alongside much faster and more modern shooters. So going into Halo: Campaign Evolved felt strangely personal. I was not discovering Master Chief’s first adventure for the first time.…
Samsung’s Galaxy A27 5G makes a surprisingly strong case for itself as a gaming-capable midrange phone. With a Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 chipset, a 120Hz Super AMOLED display, and Samsung’s long history of optimizing Galaxy devices for mobile games, the A27 delivers more gaming performance than its specifications might suggest. For competitive games such as Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, Call of Duty: Mobile, and PUBG Mobile, the A27 handles itself well. I played Mobile Legends at high graphics, while Call of Duty: Mobile was set to high graphics with the frame rate at its maximum available option. PUBG Mobile was…