For as long as human history has been cataloged, mythologies have been ingrained into our collective psyche. Naturally, games would also look to the past to inform a setting, mechanics, and so on.…
March 10, 2022 | 11:00 EST
Now that the Google Stadia is ostensibly on the decline, it seems likely that we will get the return of plenty of small indie exclusives that never got the fanfare they were hoping for. This gives…
March 10, 2022 | 09:00 EST
I was one of the people who greatly enjoyed the original ELEX, despite its flaws. There's always something about a new open world to explore, character story arcs, and challenging mechanics that…
February 28, 2022 | 11:00 EST
I was one of the people who greatly enjoyed the original ELEX, despite its flaws. There's always something about a new open world to explore, character story arcs, and challenging mechanics that…
February 28, 2022 | 11:00 EST
It's fitting that Serious Sam 4 is one of the few games to get a full-fledged expansion in recent times. All of Sam's adventures are nostalgic in nature, and he made his big return right alongside …
January 27, 2022 | 10:00 EST
Cleaning in games has started to become an interesting trend. It makes sense given the growing adult population in the medium: the satisfaction of renewing a once-grimy place can sound just as…
January 7, 2022 | 11:00 EST
In the early days of the internet, back when Facebook was only on college campuses and video quality was still at 360p, there were flash games. Massive websites like Newgrounds and Kongregate would…
November 16, 2021 | 10:00 EST
The detective genre is an odd one. Many games purporting to be detective thrillers simply lead you by the nose down a linear series of clues and narrative beats, occasionally stopping to let you…
November 15, 2021 | 12:00 EST
It feels like it's been ages since a Gundam game with an original story has been released, especially in the West. For years it's been one arena fighter after another, but Mobile Suit Gundam Battle…
November 15, 2021 | 10:00 EST
Platformers are infamously hard games to get right. They need to be challenging enough to be replayable without artificially injecting difficulty. You have to feel some sense of ownership over your…
November 3, 2021 | 09:00 EDT
New ports of fan-favorite Resident Evil 4 are nothing new, but Resident Evil 4 VR, out now on Oculus Quest 2, is the definitive survival horror experience that fans of this classic have been waiting…
October 27, 2021 | 11:30 EDT
Doctor Who is the longest-running sci-fi franchise in the world and has been to some pretty strange places, but Maze Theory and Just Add Water’s video game is the first to take the Doctor to The Edge…
October 19, 2021 | 10:00 EDT
Sometimes the cutest things can be the most unsettling when placed in disturbing scenarios. It’s not common where you get to experience the story of something adorable trying to survive in a…
October 4, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
It's very rare to find a comedy game that actually makes you laugh. Comedy is a really subjective genre, which is why comedy movies have this tendency to not review so well unless they having…
September 27, 2021 | 10:00 EDT
With the Judgment franchise carrying the 3D brawler torch while Yakuza continues down the turn-based path, Lost Judgment has major shoes to fill. While still suffering from a case of franchise…
September 16, 2021 | 09:00 EDT
Over the course of almost a decade playing video games, only two have ever reduced me to tears. The first was Dark Souls 2 when my third attempt to try and navigate the infamous Black Gulch after…
September 3, 2021 | 10:00 EDT
Humans have come a long way from sleeping in barns and riding horses to the market. Despite all our advances, we often look back at the way things used to be and wonder how different society was.…
August 30, 2021 | 09:00 EDT
One aspect of games that I love is the growth that characters can have over the course of the story. It's satisfactory in RPGs to see your characters grow and do more damage, but Metroidvanias like…
August 19, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
Travel is a great thing. It’s often been quoted that “travel broadens the mind”, and journeying around the world to engage with new cultures, languages, and places is a great way to learn about new…
August 16, 2021 | 12:35 EDT
Siblings can be a nuisance but they can also be the best part of your family. Many plots involve familial bonds with plenty of games sending you on a quest to save them. This is part of the adventure…
August 13, 2021 | 08:00 EDT
The year is 21XX. Roving gangs of cyberpunk video games roam the wasteland, traveling from city to city and trying to entice gamers to try them out. They're dime a dozen, but some of them manage to…
August 12, 2021 | 09:00 EDT
The 3D Platforming genre has been pretty dormant in terms of quality for the last decade. AAA hits like Super Mario: Odyssey and Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart kept the genre from going all but…
August 9, 2021 | 10:00 EDT
In my preview of Death’s Door, I praised it for many reasons. The combat was engaging, the story was interesting, and discovered secrets were well-earned. Acid Nerve evolved the concept of Titan…
July 20, 2021 | 09:00 EDT
Hot off the heels of Another Dawn starting next-gen's awful titles sneaking past certification, TADVGames Studio decided to join this illustrious race to the bottom. Unlike that previously mentioned…
July 12, 2021 | 10:30 EDT
Designing and prototyping a fan game, only to have it picked up and made into an officially licensed spin-off sounds like a dream come true to many programmers, though a reality for not many. Jordan…
July 5, 2021 | 02:11 EDT
Although Nioh has done well to tide us over, it’s been a long time since anything remotely Ninja Gaiden related came to our screens. Now, with the Ninja Gaiden Master Collection, we get to re-…
June 9, 2021 | 09:00 EDT
Mix in deadly weapons, a hearty dose of nostalgia, and a charming world, and you have Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. This game fills you with the same sense of wonder and charm that the original…
June 8, 2021 | 10:00 EDT
After a year-and-a-half of Early Access, Rising Hell has reached 1.0, launching on Steam alongside PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. This metal-infused vertical roguelite won't win awards…
June 4, 2021 | 01:00 EDT
Flight School Studio first came to my attention with Creature in the Well. I had enjoyed the game and the idea of taking a concept we're all familiar with in video games, a dungeon crawl, and how a…
June 1, 2021 | 09:00 EDT
The more normal and complacent everything seems, the more extreme it feels when madness descends upon it. In the case of Fluxscopic Ltd., they have decided to bring it crashing down onto a small,…
May 31, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
First hitting selves in 1986, Wonder Boy is a 2D platforming series with a long and storied history that was all but forgotten until its 2016 revival Wonder Boy Returns, a colorful remake of the old…
May 23, 2021 | 09:17 EDT
10 years since the donning of the Ryu ga Gotoku Studios label, the Japanese outfit headed by Toshihiro Nagoshi has seen massive growth. While the talent's roots date back much earlier, its rebranding…
April 30, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
Immortals Fenyx Rising is a really interesting game that plays with some foundational tropes of its genre and spins them to make something safe yet new. It doesn’t always work and has the standard…
April 28, 2021 | 01:00 EDT
Indie games have always been great at offering real charm. Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is something built on the love of this charm but the dedication doesn’t always pay off. When humor is at the…
April 22, 2021 | 03:15 EDT
There's no question that gaming's past should be preserved. If a game is great, then it should be available for future generations to play and appreciate. Less well-loved games can easily turn into…
April 21, 2021 | 10:30 EDT
There are no shortage of bizarre little indie games out there for both the PC and Nintendo Switch, and a large portion of these games are hardly worth most player's time or money. When I first saw…
April 14, 2021 | 10:30 EDT
Immortals Fenyx Rising is an interesting game. Using mythology as a backdrop and fusing that with a generous sprinkling of humor, it fits a nice niche between Breath of the Wild and the more fast-…
March 26, 2021 | 10:00 EDT
Despite what that dogs-playing-poker painting would have you believe, dogs are pretty bad at doing human stuff. Asking a dog to run a dishwasher, manage an election campaign, or compose a…
March 18, 2021 | 10:00 EDT
PixelJunk Raiders is a bit of a strange beast — an alien one is perhaps more accurate. It sits at this intersection between a roguelite and an exploration game but occasionally misses the best parts…
March 1, 2021 | 03:00 EST
The Oculus Quest is a really impressive device for what it is. I certainly never thought I’d find myself as a cosmonaut swinging through an old Russian space station with plungers but here we are.…
February 24, 2021 | 11:00 EST
Immortals: Fenyx Rising released in the latter half of 2020 with moderate success. Our own team gave it a seven, praising its open-world design and surprisingly fun puzzles whilst criticizing its…
February 4, 2021 | 10:00 EST
The camera pans over a beach covered in the wooden corpses of what used to be sturdy warships. Eight figures pick themselves up from the sand and begin their march towards one of the ten dark and…
January 28, 2021 | 08:00 EST
If there's one genre that's perfectly apt for video games, it's horror. Nothing creates a terrifyingly immersive experience like being in the shoes of someone who is helpless or lost. By this metric…
January 1, 2021 | 11:00 EST
Side-scrolling brawlers are a difficult genre to get right. The genre goes all the way back to the mid-80s, and video games have tried to emulate or evolve this concept ever since. The issue here…
December 16, 2020 | 10:00 EST
Immortals: Fenyx Rising is first and foremost a whistle-stop tour through Greek mythology. As such, it's highly appropriate that its staff have sown the seeds for an origin myth of its own. According…
November 30, 2020 | 12:00 EST
I have quite a bit of experience with tough games that want nothing more than to kill their players and test their patience. From Dark Souls and Bloodborne to The Binding of Isaac and Enter the…
November 24, 2020 | 10:00 EST
With its deliberate lack of maps, icons, and any kind of navigational systems, it might seem like The Pathless is titled such just to describe its UI to you. But Giant Squid and Annapurna Interactive…
November 17, 2020 | 12:30 EST
Spider-Man is back, and he’s here to welcome the PlayStation 5 to the world. His new protege is the star of the show though, and Miles Morales carries that great responsibility with pride. Marvel’s…
November 17, 2020 | 12:00 EST