Since the Japanese release of The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures back in 2015 on the 3DS and the arrival of its sequel The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve two years later, series fans have been eagerly…
August 18, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
The year is 21XX. Roving gangs of cyberpunk video games roam the wasteland, traveling from city to city and trying to entice gamers to try them out. They're dime a dozen, but some of them manage to…
August 12, 2021 | 09:00 EDT
Even during a pandemic, Wales Interactive finds a way to produce more FMV adventure games. It's been their bread 'n butter since the mid-2010s, so there's no reason to stop. That frequency has…
August 11, 2021 | 11:30 EDT
Sometimes a game will wear its influences on its sleeve. When Button City opened with a background that was taken directly from a 90s arcade carpet but with a little more pastel and a little less…
August 9, 2021 | 11:05 EDT
The card battler genre has gone through so many meaningful changes over the last few years. Where Slay the Spire perfected a formula, the likes of Neurodeck and Ring of Pain took it in interesting…
August 5, 2021 | 01:00 EDT
When Streets of Rage 4 was announced, it had a lot riding on its success. It was following on from a trilogy that was (mostly) well-received, with a considerable gap between the inconsistent third…
July 28, 2021 | 10:00 EDT
We hold gold to the highest regard. It's a universal currency, one that always drives a high value. During the Olympics, the gold medal is the most sought-after award, only available to the best of…
July 27, 2021 | 10:00 EDT
Time travel in a linear story is hard. There are so many different ways to approach it and so many examples of it working (and not working) across all kinds of entertainment like movies, books, and…
July 19, 2021 | 06:00 EDT
Despite not receiving huge popularity in his lifetime, Henry David Thoreau's contributions as a naturalist, philosopher, and writer helped shape 19th century America – in no insignificant way either…
July 19, 2021 | 01:00 EDT
With talent like Kenji Anabuki onboard, who has worked on classic Tales titles like Tales of Vesperia in addition to the upcoming Tales of Arise, Scarlet Nexus has much to live up to. While never…
July 1, 2021 | 10:30 EDT
Although Nioh has done well to tide us over, it’s been a long time since anything remotely Ninja Gaiden related came to our screens. Now, with the Ninja Gaiden Master Collection, we get to re-…
June 9, 2021 | 09:00 EDT
Backbone tells the tale of Howard Lotor, a raccoon living in a walled city with thousands of other anthropomorphic critters. As a private detective, Howard barely scrapes by with jobs about chasing…
June 7, 2021 | 08:00 EDT
It’s hard to believe that the Guilty Gear series is over 20 years old at this point. A franchise from a relatively unknown developer that once turned the fighting genre on its head, Arc System Works…
June 7, 2021 | 06:00 EDT
Cloudpunk was a breath of fresh air when it came out last year, its pixel visuals and genuinely intriguing characters shining through the murky sights of the city. Even if the gameplay got boring,…
June 5, 2021 | 10:00 EDT
After a year-and-a-half of Early Access, Rising Hell has reached 1.0, launching on Steam alongside PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. This metal-infused vertical roguelite won't win awards…
June 4, 2021 | 01:00 EDT
Flight School Studio first came to my attention with Creature in the Well. I had enjoyed the game and the idea of taking a concept we're all familiar with in video games, a dungeon crawl, and how a…
June 1, 2021 | 09:00 EDT
Resident Evil is a franchise with a varied past. Moving from tense horror in a creepy mansion all the way to punching boulders with sheer adrenaline, it has always failed to hit a consistent tone.…
May 31, 2021 | 01:00 EDT
Hack 'n' slash dungeon-crawler feels like a difficult genre to get right. From Gauntlet to Diablo, the genre has seen many entries that have thoroughly explored every aspect of loot-hunting and…
May 26, 2021 | 09:50 EDT
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
First hitting selves in 1986, Wonder Boy is a 2D platforming series with a long and storied history that was all but forgotten until its 2016 revival Wonder Boy Returns, a colorful remake of the old…
May 23, 2021 | 09:17 EDT
Skateboarding is a subculture that often breaks into the mainstream for long periods at a time. Back in the 90s, there was almost no one who didn't at least pretend to be into it, and that led to…
May 20, 2021 | 10:30 EDT
Atlus seems to be starting a trend of re-releasing its back catalog. First, we got a port of Persona 4 Golden, and now players can enjoy returning to the Vortex World in Shin Megami Tensei III:…
May 18, 2021 | 10:00 EDT
As a folklore enthusiast, I was excited to get my hands on Hood: Outlaws & Legends. Considering its rich heritage in popular culture, with a raft of acclaimed films, books, and songs published on…
May 14, 2021 | 10:00 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
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
There's no question that gaming's past should be preserved. If a game is great, then it should be available for future generations to play and appreciate. Less well-loved games can easily turn into…
April 21, 2021 | 10:30 EDT
When it comes to anime-style games, they tend to take genres to the extreme. From extreme action to extreme romance and on to extreme horror no one is taking their foot off the gas. There’s nothing…
April 20, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
A game where you set up camp on an island with adorable anthropomorphic neighbors. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Befittingly so, as Spry Fox’s Cozy Grove takes inspiration from the relaxing tones of…
April 13, 2021 | 11:30 EDT
Ever since Destiny released back in 2014 it seems like every major game publisher has been trying to make the next great looter shooter. While some have had success and carved out their own niches,…
April 9, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
Bloodborne is my favorite of From Software's iconic Soulsborne series. Not only was it a brutal and harsh action RPG, but the entire setting dripped with gothic dread, a ghoulish and diseased…
March 27, 2021 | 12:00 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
Have you ever come across a sequel that is so iterative, it almost feels redundant to talk about? That’s sort of the sensation I've had with Puyo Puyo Tetris 2, the hit sequel to the original puzzle…
March 23, 2021 | 10:00 EDT
Sanity of Morris promotes itself as a sci-fi detective story. An investigation where you are meant to question everything you encounter with a cynical eye, always looking for the rational explanation…
March 22, 2021 | 10:00 EDT
If you’ve ever wanted to fulfill any fantasies about driving at top speed with reckless abandon as you let the road tell you where you need to go, well, this is NOT the game for that. In Can’t Drive…
March 19, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
Russian-based developer Sergey Noskov is likely not a household name, but he is well known in indie circles for his provocative and near apocalyptic games. 7th Sector is perhaps his most well known…
March 17, 2021 | 10:00 EDT
The pulp, retro aesthetic and themes of The Outer Worlds is a prime setting for a good ol' murder mystery, and what do you know? The second and final DLC for Obsidian's RPG, Murder on Eridanos,…
March 17, 2021 | 09:00 EDT
The Oculus Quest is a really impressive device for what it is. I certainly never thought I’d find myself as a cosmonaut swinging through an old Russian space station with plungers but here we are.…
February 24, 2021 | 11:00 EST
In the wave of imitators to Dark Souls that have released over the last decade, Team Ninja’s 2017 hit Nioh stood out as perhaps the best attempt at replicating FromSoftware’s formula. While not…
February 18, 2021 | 11:30 EST
Here's a question for you to ponder: is Soulslike a helpful genre classification anymore? With such a wide variety in approach and aesthetic, you'd think these games would have escaped the shadow of…
February 17, 2021 | 11:00 EST
It’s been a real treat seeing the Persona series grow from a relatively obscure RPG franchise into a semi-mainstream hit. It’s hard to pinpoint which title thrust the brand into the limelight, but…
February 9, 2021 | 10:00 EST
Like the first game in the franchise, Little Nightmares II pits a small child against an unyielding world of danger and horrors. Our protagonist, Mono, awakes in a forest, only to discover that…
February 9, 2021 | 10:00 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
Werewolves are rad. Despite how rad they are, there doesn't seem to be a lot of good werewolves in video games. Thankfully, World of Darkness has an entire spin-off devoted to werewolves. Werewolf:…
February 4, 2021 | 04:00 EST
With its vibrant art, colorful graphics, and simple yet ingenious mechanics, Bonkies brings laugh-out-loud fun to couch co-ops with a touch of ridiculousness. After all, you play as a space-traveling…
January 28, 2021 | 12:00 EST
Non-traditional methods of exploring a narrative are becoming pretty common these days. It makes you wonder at what point will these non-traditional methodologies become traditional and come full…
January 28, 2021 | 09:00 EST
Cyberpunk games are the “in” thing right now. From the blockbuster tentpole releases like Cyberpunk 2077, or hidden gems like Cyber Shadow and Ghostrunner. There's no shortage of genre-pushing and…
January 28, 2021 | 03:05 EST