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
I felt a bit of trepidation prior to writing our Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty review. Partly, it’s due to how the base game was mired in a lot of controversy during its initial launch three years…
September 20, 2023 | 11:00 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
Back when they were hitting fever pitch (early/mid-2010s), I was getting reeled into a number of episodic games. Dontnod's Life is Strange was among them. So, when it was announced that co-developers…
March 3, 2022 | 01:05 EST
A while back I got a chance to preview Chorus, a game I have been extremely excited about since it was first announced. How could I not be, after all? Space combat with some eldritch horrors that…
December 3, 2021 | 10:00 EST
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
10 years since the donning of the Ryu ga Gotoku Studios label, the Japanese outfit headed by Toshihiro Nagoshi has seen massive growth. While the talent's roots date back much earlier, its rebranding…
April 30, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
Immortals Fenyx Rising is a really interesting game that plays with some foundational tropes of its genre and spins them to make something safe yet new. It doesn’t always work and has the standard…
April 28, 2021 | 01:00 EDT
Immortals Fenyx Rising is an interesting game. Using mythology as a backdrop and fusing that with a generous sprinkling of humor, it fits a nice niche between Breath of the Wild and the more fast-…
March 26, 2021 | 10:00 EDT
PixelJunk Raiders is a bit of a strange beast — an alien one is perhaps more accurate. It sits at this intersection between a roguelite and an exploration game but occasionally misses the best parts…
March 1, 2021 | 03:00 EST
Immortals: Fenyx Rising released in the latter half of 2020 with moderate success. Our own team gave it a seven, praising its open-world design and surprisingly fun puzzles whilst criticizing its…
February 4, 2021 | 10:00 EST
Hitman has always been one of the most underrated franchises in gaming. That’s not a massive surprise considering its stealth focus and slower pace, but besides Hitman Absolution, every single game…
January 23, 2021 | 01:00 EST
It’s already been said to death, but sometimes you really really just want to go back to the times before games were always online, you know? Sometimes you really just want to do some local…
January 16, 2021 | 12:00 EST
Cyberpunk 2077 has a lot to say about humanity and the world we live in, often in very unsubtle ways. With more than a few controversies about the game’s development, you won’t be able to stop…
December 18, 2020 | 11:00 EST
Sailing in video games can be a contentious issue. For some, games with sailing as a core mechanic can be annoying, expecting you to spend 80% of your game time on huge stretches of the open sea à la…
December 15, 2020 | 11:00 EST
Immortals: Fenyx Rising is first and foremost a whistle-stop tour through Greek mythology. As such, it's highly appropriate that its staff have sown the seeds for an origin myth of its own. According…
November 30, 2020 | 12:00 EST
Following the success of Remnant: After the Ashes, Chronos: Before the Ashes has been resurrected from the proverbial, and physical, "ashes" to deliver a prequel story. Once an Oculus exclusive, now…
November 30, 2020 | 11:00 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
The Watch Dogs franchise has had a bit of a rocky past, yet the world behind it has always been fascinating. Its base gameplay of hacking, shooting and sneaking past the bad guys to save the day is a…
November 5, 2020 | 12:00 EST
"Excess in all things" is a recurring thought as I waded through the Serious Sam trilogy over the years, and Serious Sam 4 doesn't betray the sentiment. The series isn't about the satisfying glory…
September 24, 2020 | 09:00 EDT
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and if that’s true, Zelda’s cheeks will be redder than the blood moon when players get their hands on Windbound when it launches. In Windbound,…
August 28, 2020 | 09:00 EDT
The first game I previewed at E3 2019 was the Destroy All Humans! remake. I only got to play a small slice of it, but it was a very impressive showing. The remastered graphics looked stunning, and it…
July 27, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
The developers of Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break refer to it as a tower defense game, but this is ultimately a game that transcends genres. One minute it feels like a normal tower defense game, and…
July 24, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
The world of fantasy has it out for Orcs. Ever since Tolkien bought the term into common parlance, we've been committing fantasy genocide against them. If there's a series that embodies that, it's …
July 14, 2020 | 02:00 EDT
When it comes to racing games, it's not too hard to find something that fits in any specific niche, whether it is an accessible casual arcade racer like Mario Kart or Forza Horizon or something more…
July 13, 2020 | 01:00 EDT
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater holds a special place in the hearts of many nostalgic gamers. The first two had edgy soundtracks that questioned the establishment, all while underscoring your sweet kickflips…
June 23, 2020 | 01:00 EDT
Stories are powerful. Stories make up the foundations of who we are as humans. Whether reading them, writing them, watching them, drawing them or experiencing them through play, so much of our time…
April 18, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
The year was 1997. The FPS was still in its infancy, recently leaping into a 3D future with the release of Quake. It was the next logical step after iD's Doom duo, a technological leap that inspired…
April 3, 2020 | 11:00 EDT
Darksiders fans have been patiently waiting in the sequel waiting room for a good while. Sitting alongside devotees of the Portals and F-Zeros of the world with fingers crossed, hoping their beloved…
November 26, 2018 | 07:00 EST
With the wave of disappointment that followed the launch of Destiny 2 and its two DLCs, there's little doubt that Bungie is desperately seeking a redemption story. It isn’t a good sign when the…
September 10, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
People thought Bungie was crazy when they claimed that their first post-Halo franchise would last for a decade. After all, no one had played Destiny at that point, so who knew if it would even…
September 26, 2017 | 09:00 EDT