I'd like to start this Another Crab's Treasure review with an admission: I didn't know things were so brutal under the sea. Did you know crabs are literally killing each other down there with…
April 24, 2024 | 12:00 EDT
Imagine, if you will, the Mount Rushmore of character action game heroes. If it were up to me, we'd have 2B from NieR: Automata, Dante from Devil May Cry, and Raiden from Metal Gear as the first…
April 24, 2024 | 10:00 EDT
I love me a good platformer, whether is be a AAA title like the excellent Super Mario Bros. Wonder, or smaller projects like 2022's Shovel Knight Dig. Every good game in the genre needs a hook to it…
March 28, 2024 | 12:00 EDT
Team Ninja is a developer that I’ve become quite fond of in recent years, ever since I tried out the beta for Nioh. They play to their strengths, releasing consistently solid titles with challenging…
March 21, 2024 | 07:00 EDT
The original Dragon’s Dogma was always such an elusive game to me. I never had the chance to play it when it came out back in 2012, but I always held a sort of peripheral awareness that it was…
March 20, 2024 | 11:00 EDT
Ah, Pandemic Studios. Playing Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection reminds me of its original development studio, and how much I adored both this team's work. Known for games such as Destroy All…
March 13, 2024 | 09:00 EDT
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden continues developer Don't Nod's history of ambitious interactive narratives. It is a refinement of the team's character-driven thematic storytelling while still…
February 12, 2024 | 12:00 EST
Have you ever wanted to be in two places at once? We’ve all been there—and Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior cranks that idea up to 11, literally. This debut title from Sand Door Studio combines…
February 5, 2024 | 10:00 EST
If you asked me what Granblue Fantasy was before December of last year, I wouldn't be able to tell you anything. It was after the release of the stellar Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising that I…
January 31, 2024 | 10:00 EST
Way back at PAX East 2023, I sat down with publisher Xseed Games to try out this little upcoming game called Cuisineer, all about a girl named Pom who came back from adventuring across the world to…
November 7, 2023 | 03:09 EST
I confess I am usually not a farming sim person. I don’t like these small town things, and something like Animal Crossing or Harvest Moon usually bores me to tears. However, I was enlisted to help on…
November 6, 2023 | 01:00 EST
Spider-Man is in his prime at the moment. There are successful movie runs in both live-action and animation, an excellent game series... and let's not talk about the comics. With Marvel's Spider-Man…
October 16, 2023 | 10:00 EDT
For the past two weeks, I've only played one game, and that's Fate/Samurai Remnant. Okay, that's not so unusual for a video game reviewer, but I like to have at least one other game on to play as a…
September 28, 2023 | 07:00 EDT
I'd like to begin this Lies of P review by asking the following question: what other classic works of literature would make good Soulslikes? Could you imagine Pride and Prejudice's Elizabeth Bennet…
September 13, 2023 | 11:00 EDT
Starfield feels like a game that people have been waiting a long time for. Waiting, in the sense that it’s been ages since Bethesda has put forth an original IP outside of the world of Elder Scrolls…
August 31, 2023 | 12:00 EDT
I will go ahead and start this one with a hot take: I do not like the Souls series. Something about it just absolutely does not click with me in any way. However, I am a huge fan of Armored Core,…
August 23, 2023 | 11:00 EDT
Immortals of Aveum is an ambitious experience. Befitting an EA Originals project, it is brimming with creative ideas and novelty. While some of that ambition is realized, it doesn't fully hide some…
August 22, 2023 | 12:00 EDT
Apogee Entertainment is synonymous with some of the industry's oldest and most coveted first-person shooters. It's not an understatement, then, to say that Turbo Overkill has a lot to live up to. But…
August 10, 2023 | 10:12 EDT
One of my earliest gaming memories was with Mega Man X4. It had so much style and frantic action that tickled my brain just right, and I had to find out what the rest of this series was like. Outside…
August 8, 2023 | 11:25 EDT
Like all live service games, Exoprimal is going to live and die by its player population. If it catches on, it might not go the way of the dinosaurs. Although it's frontloaded by the same repetitive…
July 21, 2023 | 10:27 EDT
With so much lore behind Warhammer 40,0000 to unpack and various video games, books, tabletop sets, and more expanding upon its setting, it's an intimidating series to get into, no doubt about it. So…
May 23, 2023 | 11:00 EDT
My time with Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores was ultimately a pleasant one. The gameplay reinforces the strengths of the main game. The new locations are still brimming with Guerilla Games'…
May 1, 2023 | 10:00 EDT
Sometimes it feels ironic that the current landscape of Star Wars is swimming in prequels. Certainly, this is something I wouldn’t have foreseen some years ago, after the prequel trilogy had come and…
April 26, 2023 | 11:00 EDT
Well, it’s been a long-time coming, but Dead Island 2 is finally here. After being trapped in development hell since its original announcement in 2014, the original first-person tropical zombie-…
April 18, 2023 | 10:00 EDT
Boss fights are some of the most exciting and climactic moments in video games. Whether it's the panicked desperation of Ornstein and Smough or the drawn-out tension of The End, iconic boss battles…
March 29, 2023 | 08:00 EDT
The original Nioh was a surprise hit for me, taking the generally punishing and fast-paced nature of Team Ninja’s Ninja Gaiden franchise and mixing it with some Soulslike mechanics and a whole lot of…
March 2, 2023 | 06:00 EST
Scars Above, a new third-person action-adventure from Mad Head Games, has a lot going for it on paper. It's a linear game that doesn't require crafting resources or going on side missions. While…
February 28, 2023 | 12:05 EST
One of my favorite aspects of a game is the progress that you get to make. Starting out with limited equipment and weaponry, and becoming incredibly powerful by the time the credits roll. Whether…
February 16, 2023 | 10:00 EST
Hi-Fi Rush came out of nowhere in so many ways. The sudden launch on the same day it was announced is almost as surprising as the fact that it came from the same studio behind The Evil Within and…
February 13, 2023 | 12:47 EST
VR can be a magical place sometimes, but other times it can be a great way to give yourself motion sickness and repaint your living room in all the colors of your stomach. Many games over recent…
January 30, 2023 | 10:00 EST
While I'm always excited to try out the next new, innovative game on the market, sometimes all you need for enjoyment is a game that's simple and to the point. Dread Templar isn't going to knock your…
January 25, 2023 | 04:00 EST
Whether or not the Wild West was as dangerous as it's made out to be is a subject of hot debate amongst historians. Some say the Wild West was just as violent and lawless as the movies say, while…
November 21, 2022 | 02:00 EST
Abandoned hospitals are creepy places. It's an immutable fact of life. That's why they make for such great settings in horror media; the myriad stories they have to tell, of suffering patients and…
November 14, 2022 | 10:30 EST
What is it that every apocalyptic setting needs? A good ol' "fight to the death" arena. In the Bloody Ties DLC for Dying Light 2 players are invited to return to Villedor not to explore the city but…
November 11, 2022 | 12:32 EST
Bayonetta’s back in action, and in Bayonetta 3, she has never been cooler. Over the past 13 years, the games have been loved for their high-octane, hack-and-slash combat just as much as they’re…
November 1, 2022 | 01:30 EDT
Eldritch horrors and H.R. Giger's designs have always been some of my favorite aesthetics in horror movies and games. It's because of this that I've been looking forward to playing Scorn since I…
October 14, 2022 | 06:00 EDT
Prodeus is Doom in its primal form. It's a bloody and brutal shooter hearkening back to its old-school roots, in part due to its small team of veterans of the genre. It's clear from the start that…
September 26, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
Few historical moments couldn't be improved with the addition of murderous clockwork automata. Imagine robots rampaging through the signing of the Declaration of Independence, for example, or shoring…
September 7, 2022 | 08:49 EDT
A long, long time ago, Atari 2600 owners the world over enjoyed a little game called Yars' Revenge. This era of gaming is difficult to go back to if you were born beyond the crash, but those early…
August 22, 2022 | 08:00 EDT
Ever since seeing John Wick and its subsequent films in theaters, I've been on the search for a video game that scratches a similar itch. I'm talking about an extremely action-heavy, adrenaline-…
August 18, 2022 | 12:00 EDT
Multiverse stories are becoming more and more popular in the current pop culture landscape. Often, they take characters to a world where one minor decision they made, or one minor difference in the…
August 16, 2022 | 08:00 EDT
Party games and couch co-ops never seem to go out of style, and for good reason - they not only distract us from the woes of everyday life, but they also bring us closer to the people around us (or…
July 13, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
I see a lot of moaning and groaning over Omega Force's musou games, but the company clearly has a winning formula. Persona 5 Strikers condensed the deep and rich RPG gameplay of the Shin Megami…
July 11, 2022 | 11:30 EDT
Despite spending a good amount of time with Monster Hunter Rise, I still have a hard time deciding whether I enjoy this style of Monster Hunter more than the more methodical gameplay of older entries…
June 29, 2022 | 02:41 EDT
When visualizing "Heaven," this ethereal realm of the afterlife comes in many different shapes and forms. It depends on the person, but some see it as a land full of clouds, cherubs, and pearly gates…
June 27, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
Its been a while, but we’re finally getting our hands on Prinny Presents NIS Classics Volume 2, another compilation of classic NIS titles bundled together and prettied up for a modern audience. The…
May 9, 2022 | 10:30 EDT
There's so much untapped potential when taking from H.P. Lovecraft's sources, but I find that they rarely achieve the desired result. Such is the case with Forgive Me Father, an aptly named boomer…
April 6, 2022 | 09:00 EDT
LEGO games are best described as mumble-filled, abridged retellings of our favorite film properties. LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is no different in that regard - it's the latest installment in…
April 4, 2022 | 11:00 EDT