Fobia: St. Dinfna Hotel is easily one of the more frustrating games I've played in a while, though not for a lack of quality or excessive difficulty. Instead, the game left me wishing its developer…
July 1, 2022 | 10:30 EDT
There is a lot of debate surrounding the distinctions between consciousness and AI which many scientists and creatives try to address. There are plenty of stories about machines developing a way of…
June 29, 2022 | 10:00 EDT
The Elder Scrolls Online: High Isle is another huge expansion to the successful MMORPG. The islands found in the expansion are ambitious, the story is rooted in politics, and there is plenty of lore…
June 27, 2022 | 10:00 EDT
Silt (noun): "fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment, especially in a channel or harbor." Freshmen developer Spiral Circus landed on a perfectly-…
June 23, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
American fiction owes a debt to early pulp characters like Zorro. Originally penned by Johnston McCulley in 1919, Zorro is about a Spanish-American vigilante taking on Mexican officials in Pueblo,…
June 21, 2022 | 10:30 EDT
Near the end of Supermassive Games’ new title The Quarry, I found myself feeling something I’d seldom felt from any of their more recent offerings: Gratification. A monster was stalking one of…
June 15, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is, against all odds, an eternal franchise. Each generation will have its batch of mutated warriors taking on ninjas throughout New York City that reflects their unique…
June 15, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
No one screamed louder than me when watching The Game Awards a few years ago when a trailer for Evil Dead: The Game from Saber Interactive was announced for next-gen consoles. I’ve been an Evil Dead…
May 26, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
Sniper Elite is a series that has been going on for an absolutely shocking amount of time. Five mainline games have been released in the series since 2005, which is a lot of games for a series…
May 25, 2022 | 07:00 EDT
Have you ever watched a cookery show or a concert and thought "hey, I could do that"? If so, there are two potential reasons for that: one, you genuinely could do that; two, the presenter or musician…
May 19, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong is a deeply uneven game. It is full of solid mechanics and creative setpieces, with some ambitious storytelling on display. But a lot of that complexity can feel…
May 18, 2022 | 09:51 EDT
The Bugsnax: Isle of Bigsnax DLC is a relatively short yet delightful expansion on everything that made the base game so much fun. If you're looking to get to know your fellow Grumpuses a little…
May 14, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
Rising from the ashes of Suikoden, Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes managed to get backed by over 46,000 people on Kickstarter back in 2020. With this huge support came a clear indication that…
May 10, 2022 | 03:58 EDT
As an audiovisual experience, Trek To Yomi is a delight to the senses. It blends together the cinematography of classic Kurosawa films and surreal dreamlike imagery into some truly impressive set…
May 5, 2022 | 09:00 EDT
Kaiju have always been a bit of a niche thing outside of Japan. Back in the 90s, it was pretty tough to find releases of old Japanese monster movies outside of bootleg VHS tapes and the occasional…
April 28, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
There are few Japanese developers as fascinating as Platinum Games. "Fascinating" is the choice word for the disparate spread of their quality instead of their consistency. One moment they're…
April 19, 2022 | 10:00 EDT
Horror is a genre often defined by tropes. Be it the unwillingness to play into them or the ability to entirely subvert them - it's a genre more aware of its past than most. Given you have a much…
April 12, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
LEGO games are best described as mumble-filled, abridged retellings of our favorite film properties. LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is no different in that regard - it's the latest installment in…
April 4, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
“He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and of death.” ‒ Cormac McCarthy, The Road If I told you 35MM took place in a post-apocalyptic…
April 2, 2022 | 11:30 EDT
There was a point in Ikai where I was trapped at the bottom of a well, surrounded by the bones of demons. I had to search through these bones for sturdy pieces of wood to make a ladder using a crack…
March 28, 2022 | 12:00 EDT
The sea is a great many things to a great many people. For some, it represents exploration - the ability to see new sights and live new experiences. For others, it is death, decay, and where all…
March 25, 2022 | 01:40 EDT
For as vast a landscape as games can create, first-person shooters have always been the go-to genre for World War II backdrops. There's always been something about that analog era that's captivated…
March 25, 2022 | 11:30 EDT
From avenging the death of a parent to dreaming of becoming an arbiter of justice, the motivations of the characters in Phantom Breaker: Omnia are wide and varied. Some may be all-too-justifiable…
March 25, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
A long time ago, during the days when Borderlands 2 was considered the king of the looter shooter genre, Gearbox had the brilliant idea to develop a Dungeons and Dragons-themed DLC called Tiny Tina's…
March 23, 2022 | 03:50 EDT
Anno: Mutationem might just be one of the most infuriating games I've played this year. I can see the talent behind the scenes mixing together 2D pixel art with 3D environments for a novel visual…
March 18, 2022 | 10:00 EDT
WWE is in a weird place in 2022. As decades-long booking problems have come home to roost, performers and fans alike flee in large numbers to greener pastures in other promotions. The yearly WWE…
March 17, 2022 | 10:00 EDT
Every video game is someone's first. For people of an older generation, they started alongside the hobby with the first steps of Mario, Link, and Pikachu. While not every game can be an absolute…
March 10, 2022 | 12:00 EST
For as long as human history has been cataloged, mythologies have been ingrained into our collective psyche. Naturally, games would also look to the past to inform a setting, mechanics, and so on.…
March 10, 2022 | 11:00 EST
Now that the Google Stadia is ostensibly on the decline, it seems likely that we will get the return of plenty of small indie exclusives that never got the fanfare they were hoping for. This gives…
March 10, 2022 | 09:00 EST
Amidst the Elden Rings and Horizon: Forbidden Wests of game releases so far, lies the cutesy, fairytale-like JRPG, The Cruel King and the Great Hero. With its hand-drawn visuals and the fairytale-…
March 8, 2022 | 10:30 EST
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
I think most of us would revel in the idea of living in the multiverse and recent studies have shown that that may be the case. Of course, that doesn't mean we're anywhere close to visiting parallel…
March 3, 2022 | 10:00 EST
2020 was a year stacked with tons of insanely popular games, and the holiday season saw an especially large avalanche of new titles. The next generation of consoles launched that November, and…
March 2, 2022 | 10:00 EST
If you told me a decade ago that developer The Chinese Room would put their creative efforts towards a 2.5D platformer capturing the tone of old-timey adventure serials I wouldn't believe you.…
March 1, 2022 | 05:46 EST
Horizon Forbidden West is a notably more confident sequel. It hits the ground running, picking up directly after the events of the last game, and expands the world in fascinating new directions. It…
March 1, 2022 | 11:00 EST
I was one of the people who greatly enjoyed the original ELEX, despite its flaws. There's always something about a new open world to explore, character story arcs, and challenging mechanics that…
February 28, 2022 | 11:00 EST
No matter the quality of individual games, Flying Wild Hog's Shadow Warrior trilogy has been a smashing success. The Polish developers took a DOOM-era FPS that aged like a dead fish and revived it…
February 28, 2022 | 09:00 EST
It’s sort of an odd feeling to finally be talking about Elden Ring. It’s been quite a journey since the original Demon’s Souls bought this style of gameplay to the forefront, and in recent years we’…
February 23, 2022 | 10:00 EST
It's time to get good all over again. Sifu is hard, and only through mastery of this action game's fighting mechanics can one succeed. I was initially put off by the difficulty, even though I wrote a…
February 6, 2022 | 07:00 EST
Whether you're grinding a rail in real life or pulling off a 900 with a gamepad, skateboarding is all about vibes. Many of the best skating games dive into the devil may care attitude that defined…
February 3, 2022 | 09:00 EST
Zombies are an interesting piece of horror history. With roots in voodoo and the slow, decaying zombies of early cinema what made them so horrific was their resilience and sheer number. As the…
February 2, 2022 | 10:00 EST
Regardless of the creative medium, escaping into fiction is a draw for everyone at one time or another. It could just be an unprovoked yearning for unfettered adventure or a defense mechanism against…
January 31, 2022 | 11:00 EST
When it comes to sidescrolling run-and-gun action platformers, few games are as synonymous with the genre as Mega Man. Inti Creates' roots in the franchise shine strong in its current efforts in the…
January 27, 2022 | 09:00 EST
Of all the adventures there are to experience, the Hero’s Journey remains one of the most popular. The idea of an unknowing person who is thrust into a quest that can decide the fate of the world is…
January 25, 2022 | 10:00 EST
Mechs are something of an acquired taste. Sure, you can have something with mechs that occasionally taps into mass-market appeal, like Power Rangers back in the 90s, but most of the time, if you’re…
January 20, 2022 | 11:00 EST
There are so many sports and each of them have their own areas of influence. The sporting world dominates much of the media and even spills into gaming. There are many popular titles and series that…
January 20, 2022 | 10:00 EST
Released right as fighting games emerged in arcades, Data East's Windjammers was a genre mashup that was ahead of its time. With a basic gameplay loop that recalls the simplicity of Pong, this…
January 20, 2022 | 04:00 EST
Oddly enough, futuristic dystopias and 50s inspired noir detective stories usually pair together exceedingly well. Where better to find the grit and grime of back alley America than the bleak future…
January 8, 2022 | 12:00 EST