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
If there's one element that defines this generation of gaming, it's performance. Players want to know that their games aren't just going to look good, they want them to perform well. Often that means…
August 8, 2023 | 10:09 EDT
It's the dead of night. The cinema is glaring down the street with its bright neon lights, the gas station picks up the random straggler looking for fuel, and many are still awake from the threat of…
September 1, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
Last week, Nintendo finally dedicated a full 30+ minutes to show off everything that we can expect to see in Splatoon 3. Despite revealing some new stages, weapons, and abilities, the Direct itself…
August 17, 2022 | 01:00 EDT
2012 turned out to be a turning point for maturity in video-game storytelling. Games like Hotline Miami and The Walking Dead approached the age-old ultra-violence in video games debate with a certain…
June 28, 2022 | 12:00 EDT
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy has been one of the biggest surprises of 2021, partially because of how much love and care it puts into its characters and their relationships. Warning: This piece…
November 10, 2021 | 12:30 EST
Cynicism is easy whenever Electronic Arts is involved. The AAA third-party publisher is renowned for purchasing development studios, draining developers for every conceivable penny, and subsequently…
July 26, 2021 | 01:00 EDT
With the rumors circulating about a remake of the first Dead Space game, fans of the series are excited for the potential future of the franchise. Given that Dead Space 3’s final DLC ended on…
July 3, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
Storytelling in games can be a curious thing. Sometimes it's cheesy, sometimes it's clearly there just to be there, and sometimes it's so ridiculously off the wall that you can't decide on whether…
May 24, 2021 | 11:30 EDT
If you ask someone to list a roguelite off the top of their head, nine times out of 10, it’ll be an indie game. Dead Cells, Enter the Gungeon, Binding of Isaac, or Hades quickly come to mind. The…
May 7, 2021 | 01:00 EDT
It is often accepted that the first Borderlands game was responsible for the popularization of the looter shooter genre. At the time, looter shooters seemed like the peanut butter-chocolate of gaming…
April 29, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
Chances are if you enjoy looter shooters, you are curious about Outriders. If not, you really should be. People Can Fly's take on the formula manages to get a lot of things right with its gameplay…
April 8, 2021 | 11:30 EDT
It's been over a year since Gears 5 launched on Xbox One and PC with it also leading the charge as Microsoft's most noteworthy smarty-delivery-enabled first-party title. With Operation 6 upon us, it'…
March 1, 2021 | 12:00 EST
The Division 2’s first year of post-release content was, quite frankly, rather embarrassing. Over the course of a whole year, the game got a grand total of six additional quests, several new guns, a…
February 28, 2020 | 01:00 EST
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 Division 2's post-launch expansion content has officially kicked off with D.C. Outskirts: Expeditions. Advertised as the first third of the Year 1 post-launch story content, the DLC has new…
July 30, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
The Division 2, or the third person shooter that’s pretending to be an RPG that’s pretending to be a MMORPG, is getting its first Raid. The eight person activity is intended to be the most difficult…
May 20, 2019 | 01:00 EDT
One of the most ubiquitous complaints about the first Division was that enemies were far too resistant to damage. It was all too common that normal human enemies in the endgame could ignore the…
March 28, 2019 | 11:00 EDT
The looter shooter genre is getting more and more crowded every year, especially now that almost every major publisher has a dog in the race. With the release of Ubisoft's The Division 2, the…
March 20, 2019 | 12:00 EDT
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has hit some pretty insane targets since it released back in March this year. It’s already crossed 10 million copies sold on PC alone, and actually at times overtaken…
September 8, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
With an average Metacritic score of 73 and similarly mediocre ratings from a vast number of other sites, including TechRaptor, Mass Effect: Andromeda was decidedly less well-received than other games…
September 7, 2017 | 09:00 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
Rightfully or wrongfully, Mass Effect: Andromeda was released to a sea of criticism, engulfed with complaints that ranged from being rather reasonable and constructive to embodying the very…
April 7, 2017 | 11:00 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
With many AAA games featuring some kind of microtransactions these days, it should come as little surprise that The Coalition's latest entry to the Gears of War series, Gears of War 4, has its fair…
October 18, 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
Full disclosure, I like the Mass Effect series. I guess that is not much of a surprise, since I more or less defended the Mass Effect trilogy for its cultural contributions to the gaming…
February 23, 2016 | 01:00 EST
When Splatoon first released back in June, it received mostly favorable reviews, but it had a few problems. Mainly, there just wasn't enough content. After the recent update that came August 5, 2015…
September 2, 2015 | 09:00 EDT
What can be said about Mass Effect? We are approaching nearly a decade since the first game was released on the Xbox 360, and in that time the Mass Effect series meteoric rise to dominance is…
July 23, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
The above title reads like satire. I know. When I watched the Uncharted 4 demo that closed Sony’s conference at E3 last Monday, I’ll admit I was a bit underwhelmed. Vehicles aren’t what I want out of…
June 25, 2015 | 09:00 EDT
It's hard to work up much excitement over the announcement of yet another online multiplayer-focused, team-based competitive shooter. These days it's the kind of thing that's best to willfully ignore…
June 10, 2015 | 01:00 EDT