Previews
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2.6KA first look at the MMO soccer simulator 90 Minute Fever
As fun and dynamic playing sport simulation titles is, there’s always been a looming sense of loneliness in the games, even with...
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3.1KEpic’s action packed, approachable MOBA: Paragon
It’s no secret that MOBAs are immensely popular. With heavyweights like League of Legends, Smite, and DOTA 2, the genre has exploded...
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4.6KPaper Diablo – Hands-on Book of Demons Preview
I think the meeting with the Thing Trunk team went a little like this: “Hey, what was awesome about the original Diablo?”...
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2.1KThe Elder Scrolls: Legends Preview
It’s hard to believe that the Elder Scrolls franchise has been around for two decades. During that time, the fantasy realm of...
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Rising to the top: Project Highrise preview
As a kid, Maxis was one of my favorite studios (hell, it still is), and I owned nearly every game they released....
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2.4KOut of death comes new life: Drop Zone revitalizes the RTS
Piloting mechanized rigs to fight against hordes of bug-like aliens is nothing new in the realm of real-time strategy, but combine the...
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4.6KOnce more, for the Emperor: Impressions of Dawn of War 3’s take on Warhammer 40k
It's been twelve years since the first Dawn of War rampaged onto PC, bringing the Warhammer 40k tabletop fantasy game to life in...
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2.0KA peek into the world of Oculus: E3 preview
It’s your first ever E3. There are a ton of great games and experiences that you can’t wait to get your hands...
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2.3KMonster among men: A preview of the chilling Vampyr
You need to feed. That's how the demo of Vampyr started, in our time at E3. Then again, that might be a...
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2.3KDesert sport odyssey: Hands-on with Supergiant Games’ Pyre
The last thing I would have expected from Supergiant Games was an action-sports game. Makers of Bastion and Transistor, their new title...
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2.5KBeautiful Brutality: Absolver preview
I love martial arts. I love movies about martial arts. I love the philosophy behind martial arts. And as a gamer, I...
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3.6KDeus Ex: Mankind Divided Breach preview
The Deus Ex series is best-known for its single-player campaign, which stars everyone’s favorite moody cyborg, Adam Jensen. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided...
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2.2KBunny hop: Hands-on with Strafe’s roguish take on old-school Quake
My demo for STRAFE took place in a sun-beaten parking lot on day three of E3 (well, show floor day three, anyways)....
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4.4KWhen the food fights back: Attack on Titan preview
In an alternate history and on an alternate earth, as mankind was entering the fledgling years of its industrial revolution, giant creatures...
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8.2KI got drunk and stole a boat in Rare’s Sea of Thieves – preview
Sea of Thieves fulfills a fantasy I’ve had for a long time. As a pirate, Sea of Thieves gives the player the...
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2.6KThe Batman we may want, but not the Telltale game we deserve: Telltale’s Batman Preview
For years now, Telltale Games have been adapting numerous and beloved stories into playable narratives that fans and newcomers can enjoy. In...
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Bringing a gun to a spaceship fight: Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare preview
There are two ways I’ve come to look at Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. One is just as a first person shooter...
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3.5KTaking crazy pills: We Happy Few preview
“Happy people have no history.” – Leo Tolstoy This chilling quote opens the We Happy Few demo and immediately sets the tone...
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2.6KStealth assasinations at their most beautiful: Aragami preview
Aragami is a stealth action game that takes inspiration from other titles like Mark of the Ninja and Tenchu. What separates it...
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3.5KCan’t read my Gwent face: Hands-on with Gwent: The Witcher Card Game
Gwent is bigger than it has any reason to be. It was that way in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, where a...
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3.8KThe platforming revival you’ve been waiting for: Yooka-Laylee preview
Since 2000, I’ve been anxiously awaiting another Banjo-Kazooie platformer. As a series that helped define my early gaming years, Rare’s pair of...
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2.3KCarving a new path: Hands-on impressions with Agents of Mayhem
Throughout their recent creations, Volition has maintained a strict through line with their world, their love for the color purple, and most...
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3.6KInto the wild: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild preview
Most Zelda games open with a colorful burst of exposition and character. A humble beginning, an unexpected hero, and a gaudy green...
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2.1KTelltale’s Batman doesn’t seem to address criticism surrounding the studio
Seeing the first thirty minutes of Telltale's upcoming Batman series is strange when you've played nearly everything the studio has put out...
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2.8KGod of War gives Kratos a second chance at sympathy
What excites me most about the what we've seen of Sony Santa Monica's new, Norse mythology-based God of War is that it...
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1.8KWatch Dogs 2 preview
Hacking is a dangerous business. I recently learned this firsthand during my time with Watch Dogs 2, when I murdered an innocent...
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2.9KTeam-based precision in an exciting open world: Ghost Recon Wildlands preview
Ghost Recon: Wildlands feels like a liberating evolution of the Tom Clancy series’ mission-based structure. It retains familiar themes of the series...
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3.1KCharacter creation is king – Skylanders: Imaginators preview
The original creators of the Toys-to-life genre, Toys for Bob, are back in the saddle for the newest iteration of the Skylanders...
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6.8KHail to the ruling class – XCOM 2 Alien Hunters DLC hands-on
The last expansion for XCOM 2 was a solid upgrade to the seriousness of the base game, adding a lot of cosmetic...
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2.2KSave the robots: Hands-on impressions of Shiny
With violence being prevalent throughout so many art forms today, developer Garage227 wants to do its best to counteract that with their...
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2.4KDarkness brings promise: Hands-on impressions of Perception
“Something unique” is the main idea that drove ex-Irrational developer Bill Gardner when he began to flesh out Perception. Gardner is a...
