HoYoverse and mobile manufacturer OnePlus recently revealed the OnePlus 12R Genshin Impact Edition smartphone, and it's certainly an interesting proposition. Usually, when we talk about merchandise…
March 2, 2024 | 12:00 EST
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
It is an unfortunate reality that video game developers will sometimes terminate their game's services whether it be for financial, legal, or creative reasons. It is much rarer for a game to release…
December 15, 2023 | 09:00 EST
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 swung onto PS5 consoles on October 20, expanding the environment from Manhattan across the bridges to Queens and Brooklyn. This means that Insomniac Games had the opportunity to…
November 16, 2023 | 09:00 EST
What happened during the Marvel's Spider-Man 2 ending? What will happen to Peter and Miles? Who are those other characters? We're going to explain below. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 weaves together the…
October 20, 2023 | 05:05 EDT
After over a decade, Capcom is finally bringing back Dragon's Dogma with its sequel, Dragon's Dogma 2. At Tokyo Game Show, not only did I get the chance to play the game extensively (and you can…
October 18, 2023 | 09:00 EDT
The lead-in to Starfield's release date was filled with anticipation and excitement from those looking forward to see if Bethesda could pull off what they had been promising for so long: an engaging…
September 30, 2023 | 09:00 EDT
I love the Arena. Almost every Armored Core game features an arena or at least a ranking system, and it's a chance to show off some of the best and most interesting pilots in the Armored Core…
August 23, 2023 | 11:30 EDT
Inspired by games like Mega Man X, 30XX features two wildly different characters with interesting sets of powers. One of them, Nina, can fuse different boss powers together to create more than 60…
August 8, 2023 | 12:25 EDT
Insomniac has carried most of the PlayStation 5 generation on their backs so far. From the launch of the console with Spider-Man Miles Morales, to the technical showpiece of the PS5's SSD with…
August 1, 2023 | 09:01 EDT
Last year FromSoftware won a record shattering number of Game of the Year awards for Elden Ring, the game that brought the Dark Souls and Bloodborne design philosophy to the wildly popular open world…
August 1, 2023 | 09:00 EDT
For as long as I can remember, I've felt unsettled around deep water. There's no real reason for this; I never had a traumatic experience as a kid, and in fact, I grew up around swimming pools, lakes…
April 28, 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
Recently, Sieg Games announced the upcoming multiplayer mecha game Project MBR, also launching a Kickstarter campaign to support its development. The game is created by veteran developers led by …
March 15, 2023 | 10:00 EDT
As with any life-sim or farming-sim, My Time at Sandrock has an element of romance. There are several villagers that you can choose to pursue a relationship with over the course of the story, and of…
March 11, 2023 | 12:00 EST
As with any farming sim, My Time at Sandrock has a plethora of NPCs for you to romance, toy with, and potentially marry over the course of the game's storyline. And, naturally, that means we have to…
March 11, 2023 | 11:30 EST
MultiVersus is the newest platform fighter to take over the gaming landscape, but because of that, it's become very competitive. Keeping an eye on a MultiVersus tier list would be best strategically…
August 18, 2022 | 12:00 EDT
The Best Platformers on Xbox Game Pass is not a headline you probably thought you'd see a decade ago. The brand is known for its first-person shooters and racing games, and both Nintendo and Sony…
August 11, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
Saints Row is back! We here at TechRaptor had the privilege of watching a near hourlong Saints Row hands-off preview that featured breakdowns of missions, characters, mechanics, and more. We’re here…
May 18, 2022 | 10:00 EDT
Just a couple weeks after the Horizon Forbidden West release, we ask: What could come next? Both Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West have proven to be two of Sony's most powerful first-party…
March 7, 2022 | 12:00 EST
When you have an open world, the main challenge is to fill it with things and activities to bring it to life. Dying Light had the city of Harran and Dying Light 2 stepped it up with the larger city…
February 15, 2022 | 12:00 EST
Pokemon Legends: Arceus has been a massive success for Game Freak. For tons of fans, Arceus is considered a breath of fresh air for the now 25-year-old franchise in terms of its mechanics. Yet, one…
February 9, 2022 | 12:00 EST
At its core, the Dying Light games are about trying to survive in a world overrun with zombies and relying on parkour movement to get around. While the first game had a story revolving around…
February 7, 2022 | 11:00 EST
We’re all guilty of discussing, planning, and imagining ourselves in an apocalyptic situation. Usually, we give ourselves main character syndrome, where we overcome the many feats which cause the…
February 5, 2022 | 11:00 EST
Techland's Dying Light, released in 2015, was a huge parkour-zombie-survival hit that still holds up today. It received an expansion called The Following, but officially became part of a series with…
February 4, 2022 | 12:00 EST
Ever since it was released on Sept. 4 last year, it seems very little has gone right for Marvel’s Avengers. It’d be extreme to label it a failure considering it still reviewed decently (with its…
October 27, 2021 | 01:00 EDT
As cyberpunk becomes more and more popular, it becomes an immense challenge for developers to create original environments within this genre. Armed with the right industry experience and an extra…
September 14, 2021 | 11:30 EDT
It’s just one more day until Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance is out on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation platforms. This title is an action-adventure game set in the frozen norths of the continent of…
June 21, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
If there’s one thing that a lack of being able to see anyone for 18 months has done, it's make online multiplayer games all the more appealing, and even a mostly solitary loner like me has jumped…
June 18, 2021 | 05:00 EDT
As we all rise to play the newest Monster Hunter game we’re noticing new things all over. The previous main entry Monster Hunter World drew quite the crowd and the DLC of Iceborne only did more for…
March 31, 2021 | 11:30 EDT
In Sound Mind is a psychological horror game that takes you deep into the human psyche, forcing you to come face to face with physical manifestations of mental health struggles while navigating a…
March 24, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
I first encountered crafting/farming/life simulator My Time at Portia when I purchased it on a whim during a Steam sale. Now, several months and over 100 hours of gameplay later, I found myself (…
November 6, 2020 | 01:00 EST
Fallout: New Vegas is the outlier of the modern Fallouts. While it shares the same alternate-history and wasteland of Fallout 3, 4, and even 76, thematically, it is a world apart. While the other…
October 19, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
The rhythm game Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory is hitting consoles on Nov. 13. While later entries in Square Enix's dearly beloved JRPG series have gotten a bit twisty and hard to follow, one thing…
October 17, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
It's the season of cyberpunk. We've got quite a few upcoming titles in this popular genre, all of which will be here by the end of the year. There's Ubisoft's Watch Dogs: Legion, which teeters on the…
September 23, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
The first Assassin’s Creed game was released in 2007, and the franchise has been a staple of the Ubisoft library ever since. It’s one of the best-selling video game franchises of all time, with sales…
July 30, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
I love seeing devs go wild and getting to try strange things. As such, I immediately noticed the Dread X Collection when it was announced and kept a close eye on it. Ten horror games by ten indie…
May 27, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
It is a secret to no one that the launch of Fallout 76 in late 2018 was an unmitigated disaster, drawing the ire of both fans and critics alike. Technical problems plagued both the Bethesda.net…
April 18, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
If you like haunted houses as much as I do, Luigi's Mansion 3 likely holds an extra pull for you. Though the series is dispersed by release dates, they all share a common core: the timid character of…
March 30, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
From the first second I laid my eyes on it I knew I needed to play Anarcute. An adorable game about cute animals going on a riot, Anarcute basically just hits all of the things I want to see. However…
December 12, 2019 | 12:00 EST
Let's face it, it's hard to trust anyone nowadays—even your closest friends. Humans are unpredictable creatures, and social deduction games intend to exploit a great flaw: our tendencies to lie.…
October 9, 2019 | 08:25 EDT
Borderlands 3 boasts having more than a billion guns for players to come across, and at times, it feels like that undersells the variety. The “best” guns are a mostly subjective decision, and your “…
September 30, 2019 | 11:00 EDT
I'll just cut to the chase here, The Order: 1886 isn't going to be your retroactive Game of the Year. It's not going to become this years cult hit either, but that's okay. The Order: 1886 is still a…
September 28, 2019 | 12:59 EDT
Some days I just want to be spooked. Generally, I turn to video games for this. There's just something about playing a horror game, compared to a movie, that feels so much more personal. Almost as if…
September 13, 2019 | 01:00 EDT
This week, the On The Tabletop team take a look at Catalyst Game Labs' (CGL) new BattleTech Starter Sets. BattleTech as a franchise is huge. There is a whole host of tabletop and video games to meet…
July 23, 2019 | 01:00 EDT
I went in to see LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga thinking it was just going to be another in the line of LEGO Star Wars games. I was very wrong. The Skywalker Saga isn't simply a new game tacked…
June 16, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
In some people's minds, it's all about that trailer. Techland's Dead Island premiered with an emotionally striking trailer, one of the first in a wave of slowed-down cinematics that pulled at the…
June 13, 2019 | 10:00 EDT
Behind closed doors, Square Enix showed about a 30 minute live gameplay demo of Marvel's Avengers, which showed off the combat of the five different Avengers: Thor, Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America,…
June 12, 2019 | 11:30 EDT