Video-game adaptations are mostly bad, so bad they’re good, or lucked into some cult following. Thankfully, we’ve now had the amazing The Last of Us release, and Fallout just knocked it out of the…
April 11, 2024 | 10:00 EDT
If there's one thing that the Grand Theft Auto series is no stranger to, it's American politics. There was a time when lawyers and politicians were practically tripping over each other in an attempt…
January 27, 2024 | 09:00 EST
After years of waiting and excitement, Biomutant finally hit store shelves last month to a rather lukewarm reception. The general consensus out there is that Biomutant is a massively ambitious game…
June 22, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
There are quite a few Minecraft slabs and stairs available in the game. Not every single block type can be crafted into a new shape—and boy, would it be nice to have a little more variety. Minecraft…
May 5, 2021 | 01:00 EDT
For longtime fans of the Assassin's Creed franchise, few things are as contentious as Ubisoft's decision to add RPG mechanics to the basic Assassin's Creed gameplay formula. No one is denying that…
July 21, 2020 | 12:00 EDT
When GTA Online first went live in 2013, it was little more than a small addition to GTA V’s excellent single-player campaign. If anything, Online was considered to be grossly inferior as it lacked…
January 28, 2020 | 11:00 EST
Now that the next generation of games is almost here, it's quite clear that there are few game franchises that have been as prolific or as influential as Grand Theft Auto. No other game has come…
January 22, 2020 | 12:00 EST
The Witcher TV series is, by most accounts, a fairly decent adaptation of The Witcher books and games. It’s not a perfect show by any standard, of course, but it’s just good enough that fans of the…
January 13, 2020 | 11:00 EST
Pokemon Sword and Shield did a lot of interesting things overall—both in what it added and what it trimmed from the series—to the point of internet oversaturation. Whether it be moves cut, Pokemon…
December 2, 2019 | 11:00 EST
If you haven't been following developments with Pokemon Sword and Shield, you might have missed this whole "Dexit" thing. It's got fans in a bit of an uproar — understandably so, all things…
November 16, 2019 | 11:00 EST
The past month has been tough if you follow Pokémon at all. Despite a steady stream of trailers showing off new features for Pokémon Sword and Shield, much of the coverage of late has transformed…
July 16, 2019 | 02:00 EDT
I recently previewed the sci-fi sandbox Astroneer and had an absolute blast with the game. It's just past version 0.5 and has a lot of the game's core systems sorted out, and we're less than a year…
February 14, 2018 | 11:00 EST
Bethesda seems to be headed straight for another fiasco with their Creation Club, quite similar to how the Paid Mods Workshop went years ago. It didn't help that a lot of the content available from…
September 4, 2017 | 10:00 EDT
After a tumultuous unveiling at E3 2017, Bethesda's Creation Club is finally available on Fallout 4 for the world to see and judge. Often derided as a return to paid mods, the Creation Club is a…
August 30, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
Not everyone who plays video games on the regular enjoys the treadmill that some call "the grind." It's not an easy to define feature, either. Some MMOs infamously employ "the grind" as a quest that…
August 26, 2017 | 08:03 EDT
GTA Online: Bikers released on October 4th and has already had its first mini update of new content. I quite enjoyed it for the first few days and I stand by most of what I've said in my first…
October 24, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
Continuing our series on Fallout's realism (or lack thereof), today we'll be covering radiation and mutations, because who doesn't love that? For info on the real-world version of things like Vaults…
October 1, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
The obvious answer is "oh, come on, REALLY?" But weirdly enough, while the Fallout franchise takes quite a number of liberties with reality, it has borrowed from real life as often as not. I was hit…
September 24, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
As I write this, the central hub for Fallout modding development, The Nexus, has over 10,000 files letting you tailor how you play Bethesda's Fallout 4. When you consider that the vast majority…
May 21, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
With the release of Fallout 4’s new and improved survival mode, we have seen the game take on a whole new life and playstyle that is quickly catching the attention of Fallout fans. Survival mode…
May 20, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
Exploiting a loophole or a glitch in videogame code is to videogames as what using performance enhancing drugs is to athletics. In both cases, the act results in unscrupulous players obtaining an…
April 25, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
If there's one thing to be learned from any game that is built around loot, it's that such games are particularly prime targets for exploits. After all, loot based games are built upon offering a…
April 17, 2016 | 02:00 EDT
I’m all in on Ubisoft’s shoot-and-loot RPG The Division for a number of reasons—I like shoot and loot games; I like the feeling of stupidly powerful the player gets when character sheet DPS exceeds…
April 2, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
Fallout 4's upcoming DLC will be bringing some changes to Survival Difficulty and some industrious Redditors detailed them. There's a lot of interesting new challenges there, but there's a few…
March 1, 2016 | 01:00 EST
When I heard the announcement of Fallout 4 coming out, I was understandably excited. I thoroughly enjoyed Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. When I saw Bethesda's showcase of Fallout 4 at E3 I…
December 5, 2015 | 01:00 EST
A great many people seemed to be upset that Fallout 4 was moving away from the more traditional "choose from a list of options" dialogue tree and instead going with a "dialogue wheel" of sorts.…
December 4, 2015 | 01:00 EST
It's November, the biggest month of the year for video game releases, especially in the AAA market. Lining up to launch for the holiday seasons, the big guns bring out the huge titles to bear and…
November 18, 2015 | 01:00 EST
To state the obvious would be to say that Fallout 4 has proven to be launched in a buggy and incomplete state, with the latter largely referring to missing PC-specific features, such as Field of…
November 17, 2015 | 09:00 EST
When thinking about which games were the best of Gen 7, I have a short list that immediately comes to mind. Lost Odyssey made me cry. Red Dead Redemption let me live out my six-shooter outlaw…
July 24, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
So this is probably going to get me killed. But alas I hold it as my sacred duty to tell the truth even when I suspect that truth is not wanted—even if others may disagree. I think Fallout 4 right…
June 30, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
Batman: Arkham Knight is a good game, that much is clear. It has been receiving stellar reviews on Metacritic, with the PS4 version receiving a score of 89 out of 100 thus far. This is in direct…
June 25, 2015 | 09:32 EDT
You don't need me to tell you The Witcher 3 is a great game. Andrew has already done that in his review, all the big sites have been doling out 10s and high 9s and its generated a lot of *ahem*…
June 11, 2015 | 09:00 EDT
The open-world game is the new frontier for developers pushing hardware, but it's rarely the breeding ground for memorable storytelling. Maybe I'm old-fashioned — I cut my teeth on Deus Ex and Final…
June 4, 2015 | 09:00 EDT
As this year's E3 is steadily approaching, and as Bethesda are preparing for their first ever E3 press conference, RPG fans around the world are holding their breaths. The official announcement of…
April 10, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
Shadow of Mordor does a number of impressive things against the Lord of the Rings backdrop: The world is immaculately crafted, the traversal trumps anything done so far by the obvious inspiration,…
November 15, 2014 | 03:00 EST
CD Projekt Red is clearly trying to get the hype going for this February release of The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, as every week or two, there’s been an announcement. And this week, as covered by our…
November 11, 2014 | 09:00 EST
Another year, another Lord of the Rings. Peter Jackson will finally be closing out his Hobbit trilogy and I can rest easy in knowing that with its curtain call I won’t be pulled from my home in the…
October 18, 2014 | 09:00 EDT
Geralt of Rivia is back, and better than ever in CDProjekt RED's upcoming third installment of The Witcher series. They took the PC world by storm with the original and finally made it to home…
January 13, 2014 | 09:00 EST