I knew MIO: Memories in Orbit was going to hurt when I missed a jump by an inch, fell into a nest of hostile machinery, and died before the music had time to resolve the note it was hanging on. It ...

Maddie is a Contributor at DualShockers covering JRPGs, survival horror, arcade games, retro gaming, shooters, and features. She has been writing about games professionally since 2011, with more than ...

Liz Dickinson is a busy woman. The former Oracle, AT&T and IBM employee founded Mio in 1999, and built from scratch a company that brought the first strapless heart rate monitor watch to market; a ...

Shane Limbaugh is a Contributor at DualShockers who began covering games professionally in 2025. A longtime gamer with a Bachelor’s Degree in Game Design and Criticism, Shane brings a design-focused ...

MIO: Memories In Orbit has been on my radar for some time now. I love a good Metroidvania and appreciate a game with a unique and consistent design. For Douze Dixièmes’ sci-fi game that art direction ...

MIO: Memories in Orbit is influenced by the platforming challenges of Hollow Knight. By Christopher Byrd A few hours into MIO: Memories in Orbit, I wanted to bail. I didn’t think I had it in me to go ...

When Hollow Knight: Silksong launched in September 2025, we didn’t just get a strong Metroidvania sequel filled with adorable bugs and killer bosses. We also got another serving of gaming’s unkillable ...