If there's one thing that the Grand Theft Auto series is no stranger to, it's American politics. There was a time when lawyers and politicians were practically tripping over each other in an attempt…
January 27, 2024 | 09:00 EST
When the Resident Evil 4 Remake was released back in March, it quickly became regarded as one of the best remakes ever made by fans and critics alike. So how can Capcom follow that up? The answer…
October 23, 2023 | 09:00 EDT
For over two decades, Resident Evil has been a series that rewards those who want to return to the campaigns over and over again. New game modes, new unlockables, and a plethora of secrets ensure…
April 24, 2023 | 11:00 EDT
2012 turned out to be a turning point for maturity in video-game storytelling. Games like Hotline Miami and The Walking Dead approached the age-old ultra-violence in video games debate with a certain…
June 28, 2022 | 12:00 EDT
It has been 15 years since the Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition release date, and even in 2022, this game stands up as the definitive Resident Evil experience. There are parts of Resident Evil 4 that are…
May 31, 2022 | 12:00 EDT
With the announcement of Skyrim: Anniversary Edition slated to release this November, a sobering realization hit: There are way too many versions of this open-world RPG out there. In the 10 years it…
August 23, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
Storytelling in games can be a curious thing. Sometimes it's cheesy, sometimes it's clearly there just to be there, and sometimes it's so ridiculously off the wall that you can't decide on whether…
May 24, 2021 | 11:30 EDT
Content warning: This article contains mentions and descriptions of sexual assault and pedophilia. A few years back, I was on my usual annual Fallout: New Vegas playthrough. This time around, I was…
February 3, 2021 | 12:00 EST
Scott Pilgrim vs The World – Complete Edition has finally hit digital store shelves. After years of being unavailable, fans of the sidescrolling brawler are able to experience the definitive edition…
January 18, 2021 | 12:00 EST
Unofficial fanboy holidays are really just marketing gimmicks for products we love, but it does say something about the recognition of brands and icons that they are embraced by the fandom. This is…
November 8, 2020 | 11:00 EST
When GTA Online first went live in 2013, it was little more than a small addition to GTA V’s excellent single-player campaign. If anything, Online was considered to be grossly inferior as it lacked…
January 28, 2020 | 11:00 EST
Now that the next generation of games is almost here, it's quite clear that there are few game franchises that have been as prolific or as influential as Grand Theft Auto. No other game has come…
January 22, 2020 | 12:00 EST
Not everyone who plays video games on the regular enjoys the treadmill that some call "the grind." It's not an easy to define feature, either. Some MMOs infamously employ "the grind" as a quest that…
August 26, 2017 | 08:03 EDT
Within a day of its release, Destiny had shipped over half a billion dollars worth of games to stores around the world and sold another couple million copies through digital marketplaces; by the end…
July 17, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
With Skyrim Special Edition on the horizon (tomorrow), our minds inevitably turn to mods. In fact, Nexusmods have already announced that they will be creating a dedicated new site separated from…
October 26, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
GTA Online: Bikers released on October 4th and has already had its first mini update of new content. I quite enjoyed it for the first few days and I stand by most of what I've said in my first…
October 24, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
From its unveiling at Sony's E3 2013 conference to the release of its divisive DLCs to rumors of its sequel wiping away hundreds or even thousands of hours of progress, Destiny has had a very ...…
October 6, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
The bread and butter of any First Person Shooter are the firearms that are available to you, and in Destiny's Rise of Iron DLC, this maxim is especially true considering how many possible firearm…
September 23, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
The bread and butter of any First Person Shooter are the firearms that are available to you, and in Destiny's Rise of Iron DLC, this maxim is especially true considering how many possible firearm…
September 22, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
When success in the video game industry is often measured in increments of millions, it should come as no surprise that most high profile games are under a huge amount of scrutiny from the day that a…
August 22, 2016 | 02:00 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
It had to come to this. We've been discussing the worst games of Gen 7, and we wanted to make sure that Sonic wasn't left out. It was E3 in 2005 that the game Sonic the Hedgehog was announced to fans…
November 27, 2015 | 01:00 EST
It's been five years since Bethesda Softworks published Obsidian's Fallout: New Vegas, and with over one thousand hours of in-game experience (so sayeth Steam), you could perhaps say I'm slightly…
October 19, 2015 | 09:00 EDT
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
When thinking about which games were the best of Gen 7, I have a short list that immediately comes to mind. Lost Odyssey made me cry. Red Dead Redemption let me live out my six-shooter outlaw…
July 24, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
What can be said about Mass Effect? We are approaching nearly a decade since the first game was released on the Xbox 360, and in that time the Mass Effect series meteoric rise to dominance is…
July 23, 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
With the positive reception of the Modding-Fallout 3 article, a follow up for the sequel seemed like a good idea. This article is an overview of a few of the best tweaks and mods for improving the…
April 6, 2015 | 09:00 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
One of the greatest aspects of the PC gaming community is the modding scene. The idea of community produced content is something that consoles have dabbled with in games like Little Big Planet but…
December 14, 2014 | 11:00 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
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
Another year, another Lord of the Rings. Peter Jackson will finally be closing out his Hobbit trilogy and I can rest easy in knowing that with its curtain call I won’t be pulled from my home in the…
October 18, 2014 | 09:00 EDT
There’s something inherently likable about Wolfenstein the New Order, it’s a game with notable flaws but it’s just so oddly endearing that it will make you like it. You may rebel against it for a…
July 15, 2014 | 09:00 EDT
I am scared, incredibly and uncontrollably scared. No game in the history of games has created such a feeling of dread, a feeling of hopelessness, and an eventual gratifying sense of victory. "…
May 12, 2014 | 09:30 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
It was a Saturday afternoon when I decided to look at the PS4 collection that I have built up since November and said to myself, hmmm I bet I could get decent trade-in credit for those games. I…
March 18, 2014 | 09:00 EDT
The long awaited moment is here, and Respawn Entertainment delivered on their promise to give us a new and refreshing shooter experience. Titanfall, a multiplayer-only online game, puts players in…
March 12, 2014 | 10:30 EDT
I wouldn't treat this as a review, but definitely a first impression, considering what I had access to was limited. Also, keep in mind the game is not due to release until March 11, so some change…
February 16, 2014 | 09:00 EST
As a huge fan of the First Person Shooter genre, I must say that a refresh is needed and Titanfall hopes to bring that well needed fresh taste to the Xbox 360 and Xbox One March 11, 2014. Being…
January 24, 2014 | 09:00 EST
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
As the dust settles from the madness that was E3, after all of the debate between Sony and Microsoft's coming Next-Gen console releases, we have one clear-cut winner of the entire conference.…
July 24, 2013 | 09:00 EDT