Bryan Lawver

Rage 2 feels like a lot like a trip to an amusement park. You’ll spend a lot of time just walking from place to place, not really enjoying yourself, wondering if this trip was even a good idea as you ignore distractions on all sides until you reach the

Falcon Age has one of the strongest pitches I’ve ever heard for a game: You play as an indigenous woman imprisoned by colonizers who escapes captivity to fight back against her oppressors. Along the way, you learn more about the culture that was stolen from you and fight to

Dragon’s Dogma isn’t a new game, but seven years after its initial release, there’s still nothing else like it. Recently released on the Nintendo Switch, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen gives the game yet another chance to finally get the audience its fans have been insisting it

This May, LudoNarraCon, a first-of-its-kind streaming convention will be hosted on Steam. Organized by indie publisher Fellow Traveler, LudoNarraCon is an online-only event that will showcase narrative-focused games. There are two distinct benefits to this format if you’re a fan of narrative games: All of the games on display

Though I didn’t know it at the time, the opening hour of Days Gone is a surprisingly thorough preview of how the rest of the game is going to go. You’re thrown without context into a complex web of post-apocalyptic survivors struggling against each other, then get brief

Image & Form Games may not usually top the list of people’s favorite developers, but with every game the studio releases, it’s building its case for being one of the most consistent in the business. Every few years, a new Steamworld game appears, and while none have taken

If you judge just based on its trailer, Katana Zero appears to be a fast-paced, gory, stylish action game with a killer synth soundtrack and a heavy reliance on ‘80s action movie tropes. And it is all of those things, but it’s also smarter, funnier, sadder, and more careless

What happens when a team of talented developers takes a classic Chinese novel and turns it into a game of one of the most popular genres around? The answer, with Unruly Heroes, is a less interesting game than you might expect. Developed by Magic Design Studios, which includes several industry