Blake Hester

Neverending Nightmares is a troubling journey through one man’s own personal Hell, but it’s a journey that may not be worth taking. Telling an intimate story of the game creator’s own struggles with depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder, Neverending Nightmares is full of violent, disturbing imagery and great

The company Toast, based in Portland, Oregon, specializes in handmade leather and wood covers and cases for electronics such as phones, tablets, laptops and, most important to us, game consoles. They were nice enough to send over a complimentary cover for a PlayStation 4 and we were eager enough to

In its first episode, Hitman shot itself in the foot. In its second, it’s learning to walk again. With its second entry, titled “World of Tomorrow,” Hitman offers a bigger sandbox, full of opportunities and danger, begging players to try again and again. But, while it does correct several

If you’ve played Insomniac Games’ original Ratchet and Clank for the PlayStation 2, then its remake (also named Ratchet and Clank) is going to fit like a pair of rose-tinted glasses with scratched lenses. A game based on a movie based on a game, Ratchet and Clank feels altogether

Ironically, it is its size that both benefits and hinders Hitman. Taking an episodic format, the recent entry into the long-running Hitman series aims to deliver a AAA experience in a truncated, staggered envelope. The first episode achieves a massive scale in both setting and player agency, but that scale

With so many great games having come out in 2015, it was a near-impossible task to narrow my favorites down to only 10. So I didn’t and narrowed them down instead to my top eight favorite releases. 8. NBA 2K16 NBA 2K16 doesn’t feel all that different from

Host Geoff Keighley dropped a bomb on attendees and viewers of The Game Awards last night when he claimed that Konami’s lawyers banned Hideo Kojima from attending the event. Due to a still-standing employment contract, Kojima was required to watch the event from Tokyo, Japan — what he witnessed may

“So seek peace, but prepare for war, because war, war never changes” —  Ulysses S. Grant This may be true, unless you’re talking about video game war, in which case war changes every year. From the Cold War to the Vietnam War, from modern war to advanced war, and from