Get past the hangovers, and start messing up the dates on your tax documents, because a new year has dawned upon us like the morning sun with no curtains. As we all get back up to the tepid rush of…
January 12, 2023 | 03:00 EST
Sometimes you come across a game that draws you in for absolutely no reason whatsoever – that’s how I felt about Marvel’s Midnight Suns when I saw its announcement trailer in 2021. Sure, I love card…
January 9, 2023 | 11:00 EST
This September the TechRaptor team talked with Justin Roiland at PAX West 2022, and one thing was clear: the man knows games. Normally you'd associate the mind behind Rick and Morty with television,…
December 12, 2022 | 09:00 EST
In the face of overwhelming adversity, it’s only fair that you smile at what you had. As the world turns to gloomier and more unrelenting doom, the idea of halcyon only becomes clearer and clearer;…
December 11, 2022 | 09:00 EST
Despite a number of high-profile failures over the years, Kickstarter has still managed to help fund a number of excellent games. Chained Echoes, successfully crowdfunded in 2019, looked like it had…
December 7, 2022 | 12:05 EST
The Final Fantasy VII renaissance is upon us! Fans of Cloud, AVALANCE, and the world of Final Fantasy VII have come from the excitement of the Final Fantasy VII Remake, have Final Fantasy VII Rebirth…
December 6, 2022 | 05:00 EST
The thing about the bullet hell sub-genre of shmups is that it operates on a tried-and-true rule of “if it ain’t broke, don’t break it”. These are titles that have seen endless exercises in skill-…
November 28, 2022 | 08:00 EST
We are so late into the year and, while most of 2022's blockbuster hits have finally landed, there's one that's going under the radar. A heavy hitter, despite being overshadowed by titans like God of…
November 22, 2022 | 11:30 EST
I've already introduced the world of Gungrave in two separate articles, so I don't feel the need to do it again. Here's the short version: two PlayStation 2 games, an anime, and about 20 years of…
November 22, 2022 | 05:00 EST
The puzzle platformer is one of those genres that has seen a lot of entries, most likely due to games like Limbo and Braid kickstarting a lot of love in the indie scene. While not all of them have…
November 14, 2022 | 07:05 EST
Escape Academy's base game was one of the unexpected gems I originally found in the Steam Next Fest earlier this year, and I went on to thoroughly love the full game when it was released in July.…
November 11, 2022 | 01:00 EST
What is it that every apocalyptic setting needs? A good ol' "fight to the death" arena. In the Bloody Ties DLC for Dying Light 2 players are invited to return to Villedor not to explore the city but…
November 11, 2022 | 12:32 EST
After nearly a year and a half, Resident Evil Village fans are finally being rewarded with new content as Capcom pulls back the curtain a little bit more on the story of Rose Winters: the daughter of…
November 5, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
Let me tell you, this feels like exiting Heaven’s Waiting Room for the only time. This a quick personal tangent, but SIGNALIS was something I came across on a random Twitter thread back in 2018, and…
November 2, 2022 | 12:03 EDT
The Metroidvania style of game is one of the oldest, but it's also one of the trickiest. It has to be structured in such a way as to avoid tedium while still providing a nice degree of challenge.…
November 1, 2022 | 01:08 EDT
There's something to be said about a game that puts style above all else. It's always a risky proposition for developers and publishers alike. A fancy user interface and nonconventional visuals can…
October 24, 2022 | 07:00 EDT
Seven years after Batman: Arkham Knight capped off Rocksteady's impressive run with DC's Dark Knight, WB Games Montreal is returning to Gotham City with Gotham Knights. This game thematically picks…
October 20, 2022 | 07:00 EDT
Holiday seasons can be a time to get around with friends and family and have a blast, or it can be a somewhat awkward time. Whether you're having a good or a bad time Jackbox games can serve as a…
October 19, 2022 | 12:00 EDT
The Last Hero of Nostalgaia is so close to greatness. The imaginative world of pixel art meeting 3D animation is absolutely glorious to look at, and the concept of an unpredictable narrator is…
October 17, 2022 | 11:23 EDT
I really wanted to like Asterigos: Curse of the Stars. At PAX East, its action-packed combat made a strong impression, and the first boss was the perfect mix of challenging and thrilling. I had high…
October 11, 2022 | 01:00 EDT
Hot off the heels of Battleborn's launch was Overwatch, which soon decimated any chance of success for Gearbox's then newest IP. Let's hope history doesn't repeat itself, because Gundam Evolution,…
October 6, 2022 | 10:30 EDT
Prodeus is Doom in its primal form. It's a bloody and brutal shooter hearkening back to its old-school roots, in part due to its small team of veterans of the genre. It's clear from the start that…
September 26, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you combined campy 50s B-movies with Life Force or R-Type-style shmups? If you have, then your weirdly specific musings have been realized in the form of …
September 23, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
On the edges of civilization, a small town has had to abandon the old ways and call in a Chemist from the capital to cure the Mayor's sick daughter. You are that Chemist -- and in Potion Permit, it's…
September 23, 2022 | 10:00 EDT
If the impactful release of PowerWash Simulator proved anything, it’s that the cleaning genre of games has finally been given the spotlight it deserves. It’s not just the zen of the activity taking…
September 21, 2022 | 03:00 EDT
At the start of the summer, Shredder's Revenge proved that there was plenty of gas left in the Turtle Van for TMNT video games. As we near the fall, Turtle fans have the opportunity to see all the…
September 7, 2022 | 10:30 EDT
Something that you can’t discredit the Gundam series for is the community that still inhabits it. Take the SD (Superior Defender/Super Deformed) sub-category of Gundam media, which transpired after a…
September 5, 2022 | 07:00 EDT
A long, long time ago, Atari 2600 owners the world over enjoyed a little game called Yars' Revenge. This era of gaming is difficult to go back to if you were born beyond the crash, but those early…
August 22, 2022 | 08:00 EDT
Don your rubber cleaning suits, because PowerWash Simulator has finally reached a 1.0 release. Developed by the UK studio FuturLabs, who most recently released Peaky Blinders: Mastermind, it’s also…
August 20, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
Ever since seeing John Wick and its subsequent films in theaters, I've been on the search for a video game that scratches a similar itch. I'm talking about an extremely action-heavy, adrenaline-…
August 18, 2022 | 12:00 EDT
The Megami Tensei games and their spin-offs have had all kinds of releases in recent years. Shin Megami Tensei V returned to the supernatural post-apocalypse, Persona continues to tell stories of…
August 18, 2022 | 10:00 EDT
Digimon games have always come in a wide variety of genres. Some entries are simulation games where you'll need to correctly train your Digimon to have it evolve into greatness, others are full-blown…
August 4, 2022 | 11:30 EDT
There's been a lack of variety in video games adapted from classic literature recently. There are only so many times the tentacles of Lovecraft can satiate the needs of the gaming equivalent of a…
August 4, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
If Frogun had been released during the same time as the patformers it emulates, it would have enjoyed plenty of love from gaming at large. Host to a slew of inventive platforming mechanics, the game…
August 2, 2022 | 09:00 EDT
South of the Circle is an experience clearly designed with a specific platform in mind. It was released on Apple Arcade in 2020 and a lot of its design decisions, from control scheme to UX to UI, can…
July 29, 2022 | 09:00 EDT
[Reviewer's Note: I have to dive into SPOILERS to critique major issues with this story. Read at your own discretion.] It's not fun to denigrate indie titles with unique ambitions in mind. After all…
July 23, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
Rarely has a game gripped me as tightly as Endling: Extinction Is Forever did. Through only a few hours of gameplay, I was more invested in guiding a mother fox and her cubs around a threat-filled…
July 19, 2022 | 10:00 EDT
Hazel Sky is a charming puzzle game that has you on a journey to becoming a mechanic. Set on an unknown island, you'll have to repair planes to get to the next chapter, and there are many hurdles in…
July 18, 2022 | 09:00 EDT
“Couples See Man-Sized Bird...Creature...Something” is what the headline of a newspaper in 1966 said in reference to the first sighting of the Mothman in 1966. Needless to say, Mothmen 1966 is based…
July 18, 2022 | 10:30 EDT
Escape Room games have been a hot trend for a while now, with entire franchises like Rusty Lake and mc2games being built upon the principle that you need to solve the puzzles and get out of the room/…
July 13, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
Outriders Worldslayer provides plenty of new material for players to enjoy. In addition to several quality of life features, and new changes to difficulty levels, this premium expansion includes new…
July 9, 2022 | 11:30 EDT
The futuristic arcade racer is dead. Nintendo brought the genre to the popular consciousness with the launch of the SNES and strangled it through neglect over the coming decades. Other developers…
July 9, 2022 | 11:00 EDT
Remasters, remakes, and reboots have seen a substantial uptick in recent years; further, no other genre has enjoyed this love like 3D platformers. What's been the most fascinating about this revival…
July 5, 2022 | 10:00 EDT
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
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
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