Hot off the heels of the announcement of Smite 2, there’s been a lot to unpack for both fans and the developers alike. This past weekend played host to the annual world championships for the original…
January 18, 2024 | 09:00 EST
During Tokyo Game Show, NetEase Games announced a brand new game titled Rusty Rabbit, featuring an interesting development partnership with Nitroplus and well-known writer Gen Urobuchi. The game is…
October 17, 2023 | 09:00 EDT
How do you follow up a game that is considered by many to be the greatest game ever made? How is it even possible, and how does Tears of the Kingdom do it so well? The answer is remarkably simple:…
May 22, 2023 | 12:00 EDT
I always dreaded when my last reliable weapon started to flash red in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. I knew the good times were almost over, and I prayed that Link’s bottomless…
May 21, 2023 | 12:00 EDT
With EA and Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi: Survivor on the horizon, we naturally have a lot of questions. The game is shaping up to be a massive expansion and evolution of the systems and scope we saw in…
April 3, 2023 | 11:05 EDT
Over the years, video games have expanded beyond software; now players can experience their favorite titles by collecting figurines, vinyl soundtracks, and even official Lego® models. Perhaps one of…
December 15, 2022 | 12:00 EST
God of War Ragnarok has everything you want in a big-budget blockbuster game. The action is satisfying, the set pieces are full of jaw-dropping spectacle, and the story is gripping enough to pull you…
December 2, 2022 | 12:00 EST
Danielle Bisutti walked into her first table read for God of War in 2014 knowing only that she had a part in a video game. She soon learned she’d be working on the series as Freya, and the game would…
November 22, 2022 | 12:00 EST
During the Resident Evil showcase on Thursday, Capcom dropped a brand-new Resident Evil 4 remake gameplay trailer and a slightly shorter RE4 story trailer. These trailers got the internet…
October 24, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
Cult of the Lamb released last week and has become a popular game across social media. In it you take up the lead to run a cult as the last Sacrificial Lamb. You get to name a cult, defeat demonic…
August 30, 2022 | 12:00 EDT
For a franchise that prides itself on the quote, "A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack," Star Wars and Star Wars fans certainly love using a lightsaber to cut things in…
April 20, 2022 | 01:00 EDT
Nearly a year after The Last of Us Part II's 60 fps patch, Naughty Dog's other PS4 efforts have received native next-generation support. Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves bundles Uncharted 4 and Uncharted…
January 26, 2022 | 10:00 EST
The release of Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX is such a nostalgic slice of '90s pop culture it's almost impossible not to love it. It also represents something else that has been gaining popularity as…
December 10, 2021 | 12:00 EST
Jak and Daxter celebrates its 20th anniversary on Dec. 3. Compared to many of the previous era’s platformers, the series has aged with real grace. In fact, when most people think of PlayStation 2-era…
December 3, 2021 | 12:00 EST
The Dragon Ball franchise has a long, long history of video games, dating all the way back to the '80s when the original manga was still running. While it has a varied history, most of its more…
November 24, 2021 | 12:00 EST
Change is the universe’s most aggravating constant. As time marches forward at the pace of a death metal blast beat, change inevitably occurs. For many people, change means leaving home and going to…
July 8, 2021 | 01:00 EDT
Coming to us from Asobo Studio, now known for their technical prowess on Microsoft Flight Simulator, A Plague Tale: Innocence was one of 2019's sleeper hits. With a sequel arriving next year, the…
July 7, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
It’s always a happy day when niche console games get new leases on life thanks to belated PC ports. While Suda51 is something of a household name to many cult fans, most of his titles have been…
June 9, 2021 | 01:00 EDT
Coming off the success of 2019s pinball hack-and-slash hybrid Creature in the Well, today Flight School Studio has announced their upcoming game Stonefly. This new title puts players in mechanized…
February 26, 2021 | 10:00 EST
Last time, we went into the exhaustive development of Stage 3 of Zelda 64, at this point now officially called Ocarina of Time in development. From it, child Link was introduced, story beats were…
February 4, 2021 | 01:00 EST
Last time, we looked into the exhaustive development of Zelda 64 through Stage 1 and Stage 2 of the game's life, going into the limitations of the 64DD, the growing press buzz, and the beginnings of…
February 3, 2021 | 01:00 EST
Last time, we introduced the pre-production phase of Ocarina of Time, from its very early influences in chanbara swordplay to failed experiments using the FX chip. This article will continue the…
February 2, 2021 | 01:00 EST
Recently, one of the biggest finds in gaming history occurred; several beta maps and assets from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time were discovered on a few Nintendo 64 dev kits. For a whole…
February 1, 2021 | 01:00 EST
Greek mythology-based open world adventure Immortals Fenyx Rising offers a huge area to explore in the form of the sprawling Golden Isle. One of the best ways for protagonist Fenyx to get around the…
December 31, 2020 | 11:00 EST
Sing, O Muse, of the journey of Fenyx, the hero who conquered the Golden Isle and returned the gods to their true forms by breaking the curse of Typhon. Sing also, O Muse, of... two angry old men…
December 30, 2020 | 12:00 EST
A Death Stranding x Cyberpunk 2077 crossover launched yesterday, surprising fans with new missions, new cosmetics, and new functional content. What's even more interesting is that this crossover…
December 18, 2020 | 01:00 EST
The games industry owes a lot to what the film industry has done in the past century. Ghost of Tsushima especially owes a lot to Akira Kurosawa’s legendary work in samurai cinema, one of the many…
December 11, 2020 | 11:00 EST
Back in 2008, Japanese auteur Goichi “Suda51” Suda and his team released No More Heroes on the Wii. It was a hyperviolent and darkly satirical take on video games, the people who play them, and the…
November 11, 2020 | 11:00 EST
Sucker Punch's Ghost of Tsushima is a fantastic psuedo-historical samurai adventure. In many ways, it was the swan song for the PlayStation 4 and cemented Sony's brand of console-exclusive prestige…
October 21, 2020 | 12:00 EDT
When Rocksteady revealed the trailer for its new game, Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League during the DC Fandome event, we found out that it’ll be set in the same universe as the Arkham trilogy…
August 25, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
For the past week, I have been playing Ghost of Tsushima, and it is amazing. Sucker Punch put a lot of love and care into every facet of this game, and it shows. Everything from the gorgeous art…
July 23, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
In some ways, the upcoming Ary and the Secret of Seasons is like the highly popular show Avatar: The Last Airbender. In both, you have a young character that masters four elements. In Avatar, this is…
July 20, 2020 | 01:00 EDT
The Destroy All Humans! remake was one of the first games I got to play at E3 2019, and I was very impressed. Although the build was in an earlier state, the remake for Destroy All Humans! played…
July 1, 2020 | 12:00 EDT
There is no gaming icon from the 90s more resilient than Duke Nukem. The venerable shooter that was Duke Nukem 3D showed up in 1996 and improved on the fantastic foundation left behind by Doom. Since…
June 27, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
I walked into Death Stranding expecting to stumble. As much as I enjoyed Metal Gear Solid, I believed Hideo Kojima’s newest work would frustrate me more than entertain me. For a good while, my…
November 14, 2019 | 11:00 EST
I'm a sucker for cute animals. When this year's Kinda Funny Games Showcase featured Tamarin, I took a break from my furious typing to say, "Aww." Tamarin is a 3D action-adventure platformer cut from…
July 22, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
Watch Dogs 2 had a single standout feature, one that propelled it beyond the franchise's mediocre roots. Beyond its hacking gameplay and nonviolent combat scenarios, a signature cast of characters…
June 12, 2019 | 10:00 EDT
It's clear something is wrong. We live in a world where The Quiet Man exists. We shouldn't, but we do. I already gave my views on the game, but there's recently been a patch that adds sound back to…
November 9, 2018 | 02:00 EST
Saints Row 2 represents a different time, not just for Volition, but for games as a whole. Just as other open-world crime games were turning gritty and realistic, Saints Row 2 had the gall to tell a…
October 14, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
If there is one enduring facet of the video game industry, it is the ability to create symbols. Every entertainment media has its stable of recognizable superstars. From Audrey Hepburn to Michael…
August 13, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
Way back in 2007, the Wii was still young and desperately lacking the support of hardcore gamers. Previous attempts, such as Ubisoft's Red Steel, had been a disaster, and everything since had…
August 11, 2016 | 11:00 EDT