You’ve probably heard this before, but Final Fantasy XVI is a pretty dark game. Even with brightness settings maxed out, there’s a lot of gruesome violence, emotional gut punches, and moments that…
June 29, 2023 | 11:10 EDT
The general attitude towards quick-time events (QTEs) is that they are superfluous and immersion breaking. While plenty of games have utilized the QTE in the past two decades or so of gaming, I find…
June 27, 2023 | 11:30 EDT
During Nintendo’s E3 presentation last year, it announced that not only would the Nintendo Switch be getting Life is Strange: True Colors, but also the Life is Strange Remastered Collection, a fancy…
February 21, 2022 | 11:00 EST
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy has been one of the biggest surprises of 2021, partially because of how much love and care it puts into its characters and their relationships. Warning: This piece…
November 10, 2021 | 12:30 EST
We're coming up on one year since the launch of Marvel's Avengers, one of the most high-profile disappointments of 2020. Post launch, it has been plagued by baffling design decisions and longstanding…
August 5, 2021 | 11:00 EDT
It is often accepted that the first Borderlands game was responsible for the popularization of the looter shooter genre. At the time, looter shooters seemed like the peanut butter-chocolate of gaming…
April 29, 2021 | 12:00 EDT
Chances are if you enjoy looter shooters, you are curious about Outriders. If not, you really should be. People Can Fly's take on the formula manages to get a lot of things right with its gameplay…
April 8, 2021 | 11:30 EDT
It's really happening. Fans of The World Ends With You all over the world today had their prayers answered as Square Enix finally dropped a trailer for another game in the franchise, NEO: The World…
November 24, 2020 | 10:30 EST
With the news that Square Enix is looking at what to do with Hitman, including possibly packaging it with studio Io-Interactive for sale, one wonders who should buy it. Options include venture…
June 2, 2017 | 11:00 EDT
One of the biggest characteristics of video games that set it apart from every other form of entertainment and art is its propensity for high immersion. Immersion is something all entertainers yearn…
September 12, 2016 | 10:00 EDT