Sometimes you come across a game that draws you in for absolutely no reason whatsoever – that’s how I felt about Marvel’s Midnight Suns when I saw its announcement trailer in 2021. Sure, I love card…
January 9, 2023 | 11:00 EST
Near the end of Supermassive Games’ new title The Quarry, I found myself feeling something I’d seldom felt from any of their more recent offerings: Gratification. A monster was stalking one of…
June 15, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
The Borderlands 3 adventures continue in the game's latest DLC, Bounty of Blood. Unlike the previous two DLCs, your objective in Bounty of Blood is simple: show up, wipe out a gang of bandits, and…
June 29, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
Borderlands 3's second DLC, Guns, Love, and Tentacles: The Marriage of Wainwright and Hammerlock, ventures to where very few games have gone before by letting players attend a wedding between two…
March 30, 2020 | 01:00 EDT
Thanks to the near-universal praise that Borderlands 2's DLC received, it's sequel has some large shoes to fill. At first glance, the premise of Borderlands 3's first DLC, Moxxi's Heist of the…
December 26, 2019 | 01:00 EST
There is little doubt that the success of the Borderlands series has had a significant influence on modern game design. For years, developers tried to emulate its most popular features with mixed…
September 18, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
The problem with coming out with an expansion as large as XCOM 2: War of the Chosen is that it can overshadow the base game. Upon downloading and starting up a new campaign, nothing but new content…
October 18, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
So far each of Mafia III's DLC has felt like it was part of a different movie genre. We started off with Faster, Baby!, which felt right out of a blaxploitation film. Following that, we had Stones…
August 24, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
Mafia III's first DLC (Faster, Baby!) was a refreshing change of pace. Putting more of a focus on creating fun and unique gameplay scenarios rather than having you repeat quests to take over sections…
June 24, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Last year, Mafia III told one of the strongest stories of 2016 along with some fun, if repetitive, gameplay. Now we have the first of three planned DLC expansions. Faster, Baby! takes place in a new…
March 29, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
The Mafia series has always been in Grand Theft Auto's shadow. It tries to set itself apart with more mature stories and realistic characters while attempting to keep an open world you can still…
October 21, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
Back in February this year we reviewed XCOM 2 on PC, giving the game an 8.5 and calling it a solid sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown despite some technical issues. Fast forward to the present day and…
October 14, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
Welcome back, Commander... to XCOM. The governments you fought to defend twenty years ago, in XCOM: Enemy Unknown, have been crushed under the heel of a new world order known as the Advent Coalition…
February 23, 2016 | 12:00 EST
Evolve is a good game with great ideas. Coming from Turtle Rock, the developer of Left 4 Dead, which has been resurrected outside the Valve empire, Evolve is an asymmetric shooter released February…
February 13, 2015 | 12:00 EST
As a frequent critic of the Borderlands series it is rather jarring to admit that something unprecedented has occurred. Even as a regular customer of Telltale's products the unequivocal quality of…
November 26, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Burial at Sea Episode 2 is Irrational Game's swan song, one final bow that puts a coda on Bioshock Infinite and ties a neat (but rather convenient) bow around the whole series. As a final piece of…
April 18, 2014 | 09:00 EDT
When Bioshock Infinite was first announced, it immediately became my most anticipated game of 2012. Slated for release sometime in Spring, I couldn't wait to explore the above-sky city of Columbia.…
January 9, 2014 | 09:00 EST
Bisohock Infinite, nominated for Game of the Year and numerous other accolades at the Golden Joystick awards, was an incredible addition to the Bioshock series. Placing you in the shoes of Booker…
November 13, 2013 | 09:00 EST