I'm going to level with you all - I adore Dishonored. It was no Thief (The original, of course), but Arkane managed to perfectly channel the spirit of the stealth classic while giving it a distinctly…
November 11, 2016 | 09:00 EST
Battlefield 1 was a revelation when it was first announced earlier this year. A modern-day AAA FPS title that is set before the year 2000? Inconceivable! Well, the inconceivable has finally launched…
November 1, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was one of the best games from last year, and yet a lot of people spent as much time playing the game itself as they did the clever card minigame it included. Gwent in The…
October 31, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
Back in 2011, MOBAs were a relatively new thing. Sure, Defense of the Ancients had been around for a while already, but with League of Legends being relatively young, Heroes of Newerth getting the…
October 21, 2016 | 10:00 EDT
Over the past few years, there's been something of a revival of the so-called 'retro shooter' with titles such as Shadow Warrior, DOOM, and Wolfenstein: The New Order. But I'll let you in on a little…
October 21, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
GTA Online: Bikers, the latest DLC for Grand Theft Auto Online, has officially launched. I spent a good chunk of the first half of my day hanging out in a Motorcycle Club and checking out the new…
October 5, 2016 | 10:00 EDT
It has been over a decade since I first caught wind of Dead Rising. I think I first read about it in Official Xbox Magazine, when I was smitten with my 360 after Christmas 2005. To me, the concept…
September 23, 2016 | 12:00 EDT
As a developer, Blizzard has always chosen to master a video game genre instead of innovating it. While the Warcraft and Starcraft RTS games were far from being the first in the genre, they are…
September 15, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
If you were to ask someone to describe the first World War to you, chances are that they will tell you that it was a horrible conflict where millions of soldiers died fighting for even the most…
September 3, 2016 | 12:00 EDT
Is there anyone who actually likes MOBAs? It feels like most players have an ongoing love-hate relationship with the genre, assuming they don't outright loathe it even as they hop into their next…
August 29, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
Two years ago, the phrase "Standby for Titanfall" represented the dawn of a new age of first-person shooters. Most of us were familiar with FPS games like Halo, Call of Duty, and Battlefield, but…
August 22, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
Personally, I've always considered Iron Storm's cyberpunk epic Deus Ex to be the pinnacle of Western RPGs. It was a game that combined smart writing and a captivating story with pristine mechanics,…
August 19, 2016 | 10:00 EDT
After three years, a ton of hype, and a bunch of anger, No Man’s Sky is here, finally, in our hands. And with it, comes controversy. The recent hubbub over the apparent lack of multiplayer in the…
August 11, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
Politics are pretty bleak nowadays. In basically all of the Western world, it seems everything is more of a joke. Or at least a hashtag. So we turn to the world of video games to try and drown out…
August 8, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
There are many MMORPGs out there, and every one of them has something peculiar about it. Players prefer one over another because they like a particular mechanic, or the setting or maybe because it's…
July 26, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
For players not familiar with the Zero Escape series of Visual Novels, Zero Time Dilemma has been a long time in the making. Although both of the previous titles in the series, 999: 9 Hours, 9…
June 23, 2016 | 05:52 EDT
While at E3 I had the opportunity to play a guided demo of Obsidian's upcoming game, Tyranny. They're taking the basis of Pillars of Eternity and have created a whole new game that takes place after…
June 22, 2016 | 10:00 EDT
I apologize to the Rebellion developers who I spoke to during my scheduled demo of Sniper Elite 4. I raised my hand when you asked if any of us had played Sniper Elite, and while I have gone through…
June 15, 2016 | 03:00 EDT
I will always remember the first time I tried out Dead Rising. The Xbox 360 had an amazing string of unique franchises debut close to its launch, and Dead Rising was among the strongest. The sheer…
June 15, 2016 | 02:25 EDT
Three of us just got out of the first presentation and gameplay opportunity for Gwent: The Witcher Card Game from CD Projekt RED. Personally, I was not someone that played much Gwent in The Witcher 3…
June 14, 2016 | 05:04 EDT
The original Titanfall remains one of my favorite FPS games of the current generation. Respawn Entertainment created a fast paced game that is split evenly between the swift pilots and the lumbering…
June 13, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
The Total War franchise has been continuing onward for close to two decades, and as a result, things have gotten a little too safe and comfortable. Players knew what to expect from a Total War launch…
May 26, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
The hour grows late as I sit down to write this first impressions piece. Like many of you, we here at TechRaptor had to wait to play the most recent offering from Naughty Dog until launch day and I'…
May 12, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
I first played Overwatch a little over a year ago at PAX East. I've played hours and hours of it since then in various betas and named it my most anticipated game of the year. Overwatch's excellent…
May 5, 2016 | 11:30 EDT
2013's Shadow Warrior was a real treat. An FPS with speed and over the top gunplay to match its Build Engine inspiration, the game was fun but rooted in the past. Linear corridors shuffled you…
April 24, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
I like to think I'm fairly decent at the Souls series. I managed to conquer the original Dark Souls on PC, powered through the seemingly impossible nightmare of Demon's Souls, and played Dark Souls…
April 13, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
If you've not heard of Tom Clancy's The Division by now you're either not into video games or you're dead (which makes me wonder why you're reading this in the first place!). The marketing machine…
January 30, 2016 | 02:18 EST
PC gamers are notoriously proud of their platform. You can peek into any gaming discussion online to confirm that. Of course, there's one problem in being a gamer that only plays on one device, and…
January 15, 2016 | 11:00 EST
Indivisible is a new game from Skullgirls developer Lab Zero which was announced in October of 2015 with a crowdfunding goal of $1.5 Million, with a promise of an additional $2 Million more from…
December 1, 2015 | 01:00 EST
Indivisible is a new game from Skullgirls developer Lab Zero which was announced in October of 2015 with a crowdfunding goal of $1.5 Million, with a promise of an additional $2 Million more from…
December 1, 2015 | 01:00 EST
Finally, after five years, the storyline of StarCraft II has ended; seventeen if you count the entire saga thus far. If you've played one of the game's campaigns before, you know what to expect – an…
November 12, 2015 | 01:00 EST
The Division created a lot of buzz when it was first shown off at Ubisoft's press conference at E3 2013. The gameplay presented at the event won a lot of people over for its demonstration of teamwork…
September 27, 2015 | 10:06 EDT
Whilst the beta for Street Fighter 5 has been around for a while, it has been relegated to just those who pre-ordered the game for PlayStation 4, so many who have wanted to get hands on have sadly…
September 24, 2015 | 06:29 EDT
Note: the only demo available for Dark Souls III was an off-TV presentation that a Bandai Namco representative walked us through. As such, this article will be split into two parts - what I saw and…
June 18, 2015 | 09:30 EDT
Guild of Dungeoneering is the kitten you wind up with a few weeks after you let the cat out. You’re not sure which tom got at her: the roguish Hand of Fate, the meandering Majesty, Munchkin and all…
June 13, 2015 | 09:00 EDT
Battle Brothers hit early access on April 27th, and since that time it has seen 12 updates ranging from bug fixes to balance changes. Smaller details of the game are changing often, but the overall…
May 20, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
Unfortunately, review copies for The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt did not get handed out until yesterday. As such, we here at TechRaptor have not had an opportunity for a whole review yet, meaning this…
May 19, 2015 | 09:00 EDT
Early Access has perhaps changed the way we view games in many ways as consumers are able to generally see games at earlier and earlier stages than ever before. Games are put into early access…
February 12, 2015 | 09:00 EST
Armello is doing its best to be of both worlds: an excellent video and board game. Recently, it has been released on Early Access on Steam. How is it shaping up so far? Armello has aroused interest…
February 11, 2015 | 01:00 EST
Darkest Dungeon by Red Hook Studios is not a friendly RPG, with a depressing Gothic aesthetic bleeding into every crevice of the game's many dark pits. This is not a game that someone prefers that as…
February 6, 2015 | 11:00 EST
When you have so much talent behind a project, you just know it is going to be good, and I was in no way disappointed when I began playing the demo for The Incredible Baron. With Lead Designer David…
February 6, 2015 | 09:00 EST
I will start off by admitting that I am not a PC gamer. I don't particularly enjoy first-person or zombie-based games, but there was something about H1Z1 that caught my eye. The open sandbox style…
January 31, 2015 | 01:00 EST
Toxikk's initial trailer promised a lot of bold things. A return to the form of the arena shooter genre with all the flair of a modern shooter. While I was excited, I was also reasonably skeptical.…
January 29, 2015 | 01:00 EST
In 2009, Minecraft's first public release was unleashed onto the Internet. Over five years later, it's the third-best selling video game of all time and shows no signs of stopping. Success breeds…
January 23, 2015 | 11:00 EST
theHunter Primal is a first person survival/hunting game from Expansive Worlds and Avalanche Studios. The game was released into Steam's Early Access on the 16th of December, so anything negative I'…
January 20, 2015 | 01:00 EST
At first, Words for Evil was a little bit frustrating due to a seeming lack of control over the game. The game is a mixture of word puzzle games like Boggle and RPG games. You start off with one hero…
December 16, 2014 | 09:00 EST
Distance is a brand new game by Refract Studios, the creators of the freeware hit Nitronic Rush. Following much of the groundwork laid by its predecessor, Distance is a spiritual successor that's…
December 9, 2014 | 01:00 EST
Anyone who knows anything about gaming knows that World of Warcraft is kind of a big deal in the MMO realm. Anyone who knows anything about World of Warcraft knows it's most recent expansion,…
November 15, 2014 | 10:00 EST