Alexis Ong

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Alexis is a freelance journalist based in Singapore with a soft spot for old games, internet archaeology, and comics. You can find her, very inadvisably, on Twitter @steppinlazer.

Official Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree art showing a skeletal figure in tattered robes, surrounded by darkness, pulling a golden spear up and out of its eye

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Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree review - a visually resplendent living text made less alive

Tarnished.

June 18, 2024 Alexis Ong

1000xresist official screenshot showing a character in a red mask and outfit talking to you, against red-lit futuristic background

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1000xResist review - a deeply personal exploration of diaspora politics and psychology

Sister act.

May 10, 2024 Alexis Ong

The Epic Games website front page from the 1990s

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Revisiting the first video game websites from the dark ages

"It's a bit of a lost art..."

April 17, 2024 Alexis Ong

Key artwork from the game Cocoon, showing a small insect-like character, with wings, looking into a large transparent dome that has a world within. And a dome with another world within. Which has a dome with another world in.

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Our personal top-five games of 2023

RoboCop! Horizon! Pikmin! More!

Dec. 29, 2023 Eurogamer Staff

Alan Wake 2 screenshot showing Alan Wake sitting behind his desk facing the camera, writing on his typewriter with just a faint desk lamp on

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Alan Wake 2 review - incredible style, overbearing writing

Horror show.

Oct. 30, 2023 Alexis Ong

Star Trek Infinite official artwork showing several well-known characters in a montage such as Captain Picard and Gowron.

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Star Trek: Infinite review - it's a good day to wait for mods

Captain's slog.

Oct. 12, 2023 Alexis Ong

Goodbye Volcano High screenshot showing a group of teen dinosaurs gathered round a campfire on the beach, next to an ocean of darkness.

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Goodbye Volcano High review - killer tunes soundtrack a teen drama for the ages

Sonic youth.

Sept. 7, 2023 Alexis Ong

Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood screenshot showing Fortuna in pixel art centre-frame, staring at the camera with tears in her eyes. She wears deep purple, with purple eye shadow and a third eye in her forehead.

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The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood - dealing a powerful hand

Charm in spades.

Aug. 17, 2023 Alexis Ong

A Diablo 4 Season of the Malignant artwork where man kneels in the snow, with a rune in the background and three other Diablo class characters, with wolves in the foreground.

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Impressions | Diablo 4's Season of the Malignant is a hell of my own making

Add-to-cart disease.

Aug. 2, 2023 Alexis Ong

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Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus and Butterfly review - a little less refined than the original blend

Here's the tea.

April 19, 2023 Alexis Ong

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Games of 2022: Betrayal at Club Low was the best examination of the weird world of working

All the trimmings.

Dec. 25, 2022 Alexis Ong

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Recommended | The Case of the Golden Idol review - model murder mystery mayhem

We didn't start the satire.

Oct. 26, 2022 Alexis Ong

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Recommended | Betrayal at Club Low review - a dice-fuelled night on the tiles where everything and anything can go wrong

Pizza, love, unity, respect.

Sept. 9, 2022 Alexis Ong

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Someone should make a game about: pop band fight clubs

Won't you stay another day?

Aug. 10, 2022 Alexis Ong

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Getting physical with Virtual Realms

The exhibition that got stuck in the Suez Canal.

July 4, 2021 Alexis Ong

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Alternate controllers in a world we can't touch

A connection is made.

Sept. 10, 2020 Alexis Ong

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Someone should make a game about: the Chinese underworld

The 10 courts of hell.

Sept. 10, 2020 Alexis Ong