Overwatch is a game about CHANGING heroes. The more willing a player is to change from a hero to help deal with the enemy team: the more successful he's going to be. That's just a fact of life. While…
May 23, 2016 | 02:00 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
Halo, Assassin's Creed, Hitman: these are just some of the games that have hit the holy grail of franchising by expanding into mediums that the developers probably never anticipated when they made…
May 17, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
A rudimentary inspection of the latest trends in the First Person Shooter genre would be rather bland, to say the least. For years, every game wanted to show you their version of World War 2, and…
May 7, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
Boy howdy have I been loving Stardew Valley. It's nearly a perfect game, and the developer ConcernedApe has stated that he'll continue to work on it for some time. I view it as a nearly perfect title…
May 5, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
From Software has developed a solid formula for making games. Starting with Demon's Souls, they've nearly perfected this Western Style of RPG with their recent game Dark Souls III. But what From…
April 29, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
For the past decade or so, games have effectively copied each other, integrating the best mechanics of certain genres and improving upon them if needed. Now that's not to say that that's a bad thing…
April 28, 2016 | 09:00 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
I've been infatuated with Overwatch since it was announced, but only this weekend did I get a chance to play it. Overwatch is just as fun as I imagined it to be, but what really struck me was how…
April 21, 2016 | 12:00 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
Fighting games have officially been around for donkey's years, but being good at them has always been an arduous task. We do however live in an age of the Internet; a world in which we can Google (…
April 4, 2016 | 01:00 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
Fallout Shelter recently pushed a notification that new rooms would be coming in an update. I neglected to get a screenshot of the notification, but thankfully Redditor /u/Krade33 snapped one and…
February 29, 2016 | 01:58 EST
I love FromSoftware games but that’s not why I’m excited for Dark Souls III. Contrary to most people’s experience with the gold standard for gaming difficulty, I started with Bloodborne. I got it…
February 27, 2016 | 12:00 EST
2016 is an exciting year for people like me. With the advancing technology edging us forever closer to the promise of being able to explore actual universes it becomes increasingly less of a problem…
February 26, 2016 | 01:00 EST
There are very few games that I have liked more than Team Fortress 2. It appeals to everything I like about games, starting with its variety of weapons and cartoon universe and ending with its hat…
February 25, 2016 | 01:00 EST
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
I am a stickler for customization. I like to tweak sliders, change armor, and equip the weapon that fits the character best. So I guess naturally, the first thing I did when booting up XCOM 2 was…
February 9, 2016 | 01:00 EST
My first game from WarGaming was World of Tanks. It’s a good game, and the concept is insanely simple. Take tanks from the first half of the 20th century from the major world powers of that era…
January 20, 2016 | 09:00 EST
Ever since I was a little kid wistfully looking up at the stars, I've always longed for a chance of going up there myself to see the universe a bit closer than I can from down here. Since a career as…
January 5, 2016 | 09:00 EST
By now anyone paying close attention to Street Fighter V has heard of some of the recent content changes. In an update released in November, the camera angle for R. Mika's Critical Art was changed to…
December 12, 2015 | 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
Before we get into the meat of this, I think it's fair to mention that I haven't been a fan of Blizzard's output in a long, long time. I haven't played World of Warcraft seriously since Burning…
November 25, 2015 | 12:00 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
In the world of video games the saying “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks” is constantly challenged by games made by developers with banners displaying unique ideas. These ideas are frequently…
November 6, 2015 | 01:00 EST
In light of my recent article and even more recent events, I felt it was prudent to elaborate on some things and further inform you of what's been going on. As reward for completing Payday 2's…
October 17, 2015 | 09:00 EDT
I want to confess something. A few years ago, all I did for gaming was play Facebook Cow Clickers for about a six-month period. I clicked on castles to make more soldiers. I clicked on turnips to…
October 15, 2015 | 09:00 EDT
Following the conclusion of the New Yorker Festival's Tech@Fest panel Cyber Privacy: Who Owns Your Information? (which I covered for TechRaptor here), I had about an hour to grab a bite to eat and…
October 6, 2015 | 09:00 EDT
It is really hard to describe the allure of No Man's Sky. For such an ambitious, overreaching game, it has certainly made a significant impact in the past year and a half with constant updates…
August 30, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
I got on the XCOM train rather late, not actually playing the vanilla game until about 2 years after its release and moving on to Enemy Within not long after that first playthrough. I have not even…
August 25, 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
Destiny is a game that from the get go had fans praising it, as well as many others questioning aspects of the game, from how long it takes to complete, to how little story there was and even the…
June 27, 2015 | 12:00 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
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
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
Disclaimer: Welcome to GameAcide. Here we take everyone's favorite and most hyped games and tear them down. What follows is a comical examination of the game depicted. Liberal doses of sarcasm,…
January 2, 2015 | 01:00 EST
*Spoilers for Mass Effect and Dragon Age ahead! You've been warned!* Recently on Reddit I saw a few posts regarding Dragon Age: Inquisition. While the majority of people were praising the game,…
December 22, 2014 | 09:00 EST
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
Game reviews are strange. By all logic; a game that earns a 5 rating should be seen as average. Worth playing if you like that genre, but nothing too special. A game that earns a 1 should…
October 25, 2014 | 09:00 EDT
With a game the size of Dark Souls 2, combined with the constraints of getting up a prompt review, it’s basically impossible to cover everything first time. In my original play through (the one for…
April 8, 2014 | 09:00 EDT
Dragon Age: Inquisition promises to be one of the more interesting releases of 2014. This third instalment in the franchise marks another departure in terms of direction, but this time it seems for…
January 16, 2014 | 09:00 EST