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
The Serpent Rogue is a unique game that meshes potion crafting with combat and world exploration, giving you numerous options on how to tackle foes and explore new areas. With a bit of puzzling,…
April 25, 2022 | 08:00 EDT
The Serpent Rogue is a unique game that meshes potion crafting with combat and world exploration, giving you numerous options on how to tackle foes and explore new areas. With a bit of puzzling,…
April 25, 2022 | 08:00 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
As a brand, NERF is a notable throwback to my childhood. Harmless target shooting with an array of exotic weaponry (to my younger eyes) could take up hours of my time. Now imagine the aptly-titled…
December 27, 2021 | 11:00 EST
There are some developers who remain steadfastly in their comfort zones throughout their careers. Heart Machine cannot be said to be one of them. After 2016's Hyper Light Drifter used Zelda-style top…
December 9, 2021 | 11:00 EST
Who would have thought that hitting a wayward banana with a plastic fish would be so satisfying? Rubber Bandits wastes no time in putting you in your place as soon as the game starts, where you'll…
December 8, 2021 | 11:00 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
With COVID-19 and subsequent limitations on travel, various occupations, and so on, total game-streaming viewers and hours recorded reached new heights in 2020. One of the biggest draws wasn't the…
November 22, 2021 | 01:00 EST
There's something primally fun about carefully building up to something and working on it to nurture it into a thriving business/city/mars base, and then watching it all comes crashing down beneath…
November 19, 2021 | 10:30 EST
Battlefield 2042 marks the return of EA Dice's military first-person shooter franchise in a near-future setting. Whether it can live up to its predecessors, however, is a question with no clear…
November 19, 2021 | 10:00 EST
In the early days of the internet, back when Facebook was only on college campuses and video quality was still at 360p, there were flash games. Massive websites like Newgrounds and Kongregate would…
November 16, 2021 | 10:00 EST
The detective genre is an odd one. Many games purporting to be detective thrillers simply lead you by the nose down a linear series of clues and narrative beats, occasionally stopping to let you…
November 15, 2021 | 12:00 EST
It feels like it's been ages since a Gundam game with an original story has been released, especially in the West. For years it's been one arena fighter after another, but Mobile Suit Gundam Battle…
November 15, 2021 | 10:00 EST
I'll admit: I wasn't kind to Sometimes You's Energy Cycle. Even by the diminished standards this developer/publisher set for itself, its puzzle ambitions went nowhere. But the great thing about…
November 8, 2021 | 11:00 EST
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 classic thriller film Rear Window follows an injured photojournalist stuck in a wheelchair as he spies on his neighbors and uncovers a murder mystery. Famously, this film has…
November 6, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
Platformers are infamously hard games to get right. They need to be challenging enough to be replayable without artificially injecting difficulty. You have to feel some sense of ownership over your…
November 3, 2021 | 09:00 EDT
Developer/Publisher combo Sometimes You sprang up in the mid-2010s to carve a niche in the "discount indie" space. As most mainline indies are climbing up towards the $15-$25 range, it's nice to have…
November 2, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
Most people were first introduced to the Guardians of the Galaxy in the film from 2014, and many people fell in love with the group of misfits instantly. Eidos Montreal has a lot to live up to in…
October 25, 2021 | 09:00 EDT
Morality is a weird thing in video games. When morality first became a concept that games felt capable of tackling most developers tried to gamify it, turning it into a mechanic that measures good…
October 21, 2021 | 05:00 EDT
Jett: The Far Shore is an ambitious game. I respect that. You step into the moon boots of Mei, an 'anchorite' tasked with taking the first steps on the alien planet humanity is seeking to colonize.…
October 20, 2021 | 10:30 EDT