Bryan Lawver

I always feel some amount of fear when I start playing a game that I’m looking forward to from a fledgling developer. Unlike AAA games that come out after huge marketing blitzes and follow relatively predictable patterns, there’s no way of telling how a game from a studio

Plenty of games have either taken inspiration from Diablo or been developed as direct successors to it. Most of them try to mimic its infinitely addictive gameplay, macabre art, and pitch-black tone, but Book of Demons, a dungeon crawler that wears its debt to Diablo on both sleeves, takes a

You’ll pretty much know how you feel about Desert Child within the first 10 minutes. Not only because the game is so much about its style, which pervades everything even from its opening minutes, but also because not much changes after that. We recently played a preview build of

Less than a month after being acquired by Microsoft, Obsidian has announced its next game at tonight’s Game Awards, and it may confirm claims that the studio will keep operating independently — for now at least. Not only is the game being launched on multiple platforms, it seems to carry

Just a year and a half after the release of Pyre, Supergiant Games’ next game is already out — with some caveats. Announced at during the Game Awards, Hades is available now in Early Access on the Epic Games Store. Hades is a rogue-like dungeon crawler where you defy the god

Dauntless developer Phoenix Labs announced their next phase of plans for the free-to-play monster slayer at this year’s Game Awards, including cross-platform play and seasonal content. The biggest news was the announcement that the game is coming to Playstation 4, Xbox One, and the Epic Games Store in April

Sayonara Wild Hearts was one of several games publisher Annapurna Interactive announced at this year’s Game Awards, and it may also be the most inscrutable. The game’s announcement trailer features masked biker gangs, motorcycle-striding sword fights, mecha wolves, dance battles — and a killer soundtrack. One thing we can

Of the many announcements at tonight’s Game Awards, one of the most eye-catching was The Pathless. While its announcement trailer didn’t tell us much, its soaring score and forest full of neon monstrosities certainly got our attention. Even more excitingly, the game is being made by Giant Squid