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
The world of Pandora has been a place people have yearned to visit for a decade and a half. While gamers got a chance to visit it in 2009s video game movie tie-in it's only this year that the world…
December 6, 2023 | 06:05 EST
If you spent a few hours with 2021's Sludge Life and thought "hey, I could go for seconds", then your time has come. Sludge Life 2 is here, and "seconds" is a good way to describe both the title of…
June 27, 2023 | 12:00 EDT
Since the earliest days of video games, developers have tried to send players into space. From the most primitive examples of the medium all the way to treasured PC classics like Freelancer, the best…
April 5, 2023 | 06:22 EDT
To say Tchia has been one of my most anticipated releases for this year would be an understatement. Ever since it was first revealed by developer Awaceb and shown off through preview events, I've…
March 20, 2023 | 01:00 EDT
Look! A meme game! It’s not a shock that many folks have been waiting for the launch of Choo-Choo Charles after it caught a fair bit of attention online when the trailer was shown off. Then again,…
December 10, 2022 | 09:00 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
Seven years after Batman: Arkham Knight capped off Rocksteady's impressive run with DC's Dark Knight, WB Games Montreal is returning to Gotham City with Gotham Knights. This game thematically picks…
October 20, 2022 | 07:00 EDT
Zombies are an interesting piece of horror history. With roots in voodoo and the slow, decaying zombies of early cinema what made them so horrific was their resilience and sheer number. As the…
February 2, 2022 | 10:00 EST
There was once a time when the idea of mutations and post-apocalyptic societies would’ve blown our minds. However, those concepts are now so commonplace that creators are struggling to put a new spin…
May 24, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
When I set down Assassin's Creed Valhalla after I finished it for review, my only real complaint was that the base game's main story was a bit too long, crowded by a few less interesting regions in…
May 12, 2021 | 06:00 EDT
Sometimes more of a good thing is just good. Subnautica: Below Zero, a standalone expansion to the original Subnautica, really lives up to that mantra. New players will experience one of the best…
May 11, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
I have never really been sold on the idea of pairing survival games with any kind of storyline. Games like The Forest have tried to make it work, and to me, it always feels tacked on to the survival…
February 7, 2021 | 11:00 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
When Assassin's Creed Origins dropped in 2017, many, such as myself, applauded Ubisoft's total reinvention of the franchise and felt the series come back from the brink of irrelevancy. Older fans…
November 9, 2020 | 06:05 EST
Pokémon Sword and Shield is a generation of of unfulfilled potential. There's a lot of cool ideas at work with this version of Pokémon, like the wild area, camping, and max raids. Yet, with so many…
November 2, 2020 | 01:00 EST
A good murder mystery has you guessing every step of the way. It's often far too easy to predict the killer nowadays, be it in TV shows, movies, or video games. I like mysteries that become far more…
September 3, 2020 | 09:00 EDT
If there's one thing most modern Pokemon titles seem to lack, it's a strong post-game. Sure, if you're a competitive player, you can go wild. For those like me who just prefer to explore the region…
June 23, 2020 | 10:30 EDT
Themes of finding a new home and accepting loss are common in post-apocalypse media. For the most part, Metro Exodus’ main storyline fulfills both of these pretty well. But, what if you were already…
February 21, 2020 | 12:00 EST
In 1999, if you couldn’t find me slammin’ some mad POGS, you would find me curled up on the couch playing one of the most niche games of the decade. Shenmue at its heart was a Japan simulator with…
November 29, 2019 | 11:00 EST
Pokemon has always been a franchise with one foot in the future and another in the past. While one steps forward into new features, the other stays rooted in antiquated game mechanics, until the…
November 20, 2019 | 12:00 EST
GreedFall, the latest from French developer Spiders, is the type of game you can’t help but root for. Known for creating unique RPG games for a small budget, their reputation as an almost BioWare-…
September 25, 2019 | 11:00 EDT
The Boy Scouts of America organization taught me a lot about survival in the woods. Find water, a way to get help, make shelter, and no matter what, don’t panic. I remember a scenario that came up at…
September 11, 2019 | 01:00 EDT
In Metro Exodus’ main campaign, you find out that there are other survivors persevering through the nuclear apocalypse. Unsurprisingly, most of these survivors try to kill you, but there are some who…
September 2, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
Metro Exodus is a game I've been looking forward to for a long time. I thoroughly enjoyed playing the previous two post-apocalyptic first-person shooters in the series. To my delight, Exodus promises…
February 13, 2019 | 11:00 EST
I sincerely enjoy exploring and building in games, so Astroneer has been on my radar for a while. Developed by System Era Softworks, excitement built over several years of Early Access. After…
February 5, 2019 | 12:00 EST
This year has been chock-full of thoughtful, story-driven experiences, like Celeste, God of War, and Red Dead Redemption 2. Sometimes, it’s nice to take a break from these rich experiences and have…
December 3, 2018 | 04:00 EST
Red Dead Redemption 2 is a very stubborn game. It’s also a remarkably engrossing one. It focuses on realism and believability more than anything else, taking its sweet time to carefully pore over…
November 6, 2018 | 11:00 EST
Starlink: Battle for Atlas is trying to please a lot of people. Its primary audience is children seeking an epic space adventure, their own No Man's Sky. There is the legion of Starfox fans that have…
November 2, 2018 | 02:00 EDT
Forza Horizon has always held a position in my mind as the “fun Forza” series. Not that the Motorsport games aren’t good, but the breezy, easy-going festival vibes of this series have always focused…
September 29, 2018 | 12:00 EDT
Your squad captures a valuable relic on a mission. As you transport it back to headquarters, a rival faction intercepts you. They demand that you hand it over, and you refuse. Bullets fly and bodies…
September 13, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
The pinball adventure is a small but enticing category of games. Every time something like Mario Pinball Land or Rollers of the Realm comes out, I want to like it. I give myself over and wait to be…
July 5, 2018 | 02:00 EDT
Genre is a tricky thing. The consensus on Red Faction Guerrilla is that it is a third-person shooter. A more accurate genre descriptor for it would be mayhem sim. Third-person shooting is a minor…
July 4, 2018 | 12:00 EDT
I want to fight weird mythical enemies, but I know not every game lends itself to this. I don't think they'd make much sense in a Call of Duty game after all. If I'm in the middle of Egypt? Throw a…
April 14, 2018 | 12:00 EDT
It has been roughly two years since Yakuza 6: Song of Life was released in Japan. This is also the time since Yakuza 5 was first released in the West. This timeline meant that I was simultaneously…
March 15, 2018 | 04:00 EDT
Gamers are spoiled for choice in the Survival genre, although many of the games are quite similar in a lot of ways. If you like crafting guns from raw metal and shooting zombies in the face, you…
March 1, 2018 | 11:30 EST
Assassin's Creed Origins came out last year and managed to take a stale formula and revitalize it. Ubisoft has been giving the game free updates, but now it's time for the first paid expansion to…
February 7, 2018 | 11:00 EST
Seven: The Days Long Gone is game that I had a lot of hopes for. The development team at Fool’s Theory is made of AAA industry veterans from CD Projekt RED — you know, the guys behind the critically…
December 20, 2017 | 01:00 EST
I haven't been excited by an Assassin's Creed game in a while. The series hasn't really managed to pull out many interesting new angles that I wanted to experience. Still, I played them, because a…
November 10, 2017 | 11:00 EST
So far each of Mafia III's DLC has felt like it was part of a different movie genre. We started off with Faster, Baby!, which felt right out of a blaxploitation film. Following that, we had Stones…
August 24, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
Imagine if you got the teams behind G.I. Joe and Archer together, provided them an endless supply of liquor & mind-altering psychedelics, and then told them to make a video game. That, in a…
August 16, 2017 | 06:00 EDT
Mafia III's first DLC (Faster, Baby!) was a refreshing change of pace. Putting more of a focus on creating fun and unique gameplay scenarios rather than having you repeat quests to take over sections…
June 24, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Whenever I play titles such as Battlefield or Call of Duty, I always tend to gravitate towards sniper rifles. I am not exactly sure where my affinity for long range death comes from; perhaps the…
May 5, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
While Watch Dogs 2 was a great game, its first DLC (Human Condition) felt lacking and was little more than three random side quests. No Compromise seeks to give it another shot. Containing a campaign…
May 1, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
The Simpsons has a long and colorful history, thanks in part to it being the longest running cartoon show of all time. Years of Simpsons episodes—some iconic, some terrible—offer up a pop culture…
April 15, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
Last year, Mafia III told one of the strongest stories of 2016 along with some fun, if repetitive, gameplay. Now we have the first of three planned DLC expansions. Faster, Baby! takes place in a new…
March 29, 2017 | 01:00 EDT
Any time a new and original idea comes around there is a bit of trepidation. That was certainly amplified with something as ambitious as Horizon Zero Dawn. It sought to marry science fiction,…
March 24, 2017 | 11:00 EDT