Previews
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2.6KMore than meets the eye — Transformers: Devastation hands-on preview
When it comes to Transformers games, the quality tends to be mostly hit or miss. There have been some high points in...
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3.5KNo room for compromises — Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
In a time where games often fail to strike a balance between being cinematic and maintaining player agency, Naughty Dog showed me...
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332Do a barrel roll! — Star Fox Zero preview
As I soared through the battle-worn skies of Corneria, enemy fighters continued to close in with their lasers directed right at me....
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2.6KNot your average bear — Paddington: Adventures in London
Movie tie-in titles, especially ones for children’s movies, are almost universally laughably unappealing. They’re usually either reskins of other games or half-assed...
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3.4KWoman vs. machine — Horizon Zero Dawn
What I saw of Horizon Zero Dawn at E3 this year made me feel a sense of desperation that the grittiest of...
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2.2KNo pulling punches — The sweet science behind Street Fighter V’s new modes and characters
The big daddy of fighting games is back, and for the first time in almost a decade, we’re getting a completely new...
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2.2KExpanding your vocabulary — Typoman’s unique approach to grammatical platforming
A wise man once said, “The pen is mightier than the sword.” Words can topple regimes and enrapture millions, and in Typoman,...
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2.1KFinely threaded — Yoshi’s Woolly World preview
Let’s just get this out of the way right now: Yoshi’s Woolly World is one of the most adorable games ever made....
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1.8KSlowly but surely — NBA Live 16 preview
NBA Live has been a series struggling to find an identity since its resurrection a few years back. The past two iterations...
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1.8KTools of the trade — how Rock Band 4 expands the genre without forcing change
The key to Rock Band 4’s brilliance is the way it builds up, rather than changes. Many rhythm games attempt to change...
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2.3KA skate down memory lane — Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 preview
From the first moment I laid eyes on Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5, I could tell that this game is meant as...
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3.0KCrytek makes the leap into virtual reality — preview of Robinson: The Journey
Despite its prevalence across the video game world, I had never played a virtual reality game. That is, until my hands were...
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4.4KTaken for a ride – Destiny: The Taken King preview
It wasn't long after setting foot on the dark, dreary moon of Phobos that I began to feel that something wasn’t right....
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2.7KPersona 4: Dancing All Night – A bit off-beat
I expected Persona 4: Dancing All Night to be a lot of things, but the haphazard and random rhythm game I felt...
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2.2KPlatforming with ease and complexity — Mighty No. 9
Mighty No. 9 is one of the original Kickstarter darlings, and it looks like we’re finally going to be able to get...
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2.9KA sword fighting ballet — For Honor hands-on impressions
Ubisoft’s For Honor debuted this week and was easily one of the biggest surprise announcements to come out of E3. As a...
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2.3KThe mystery begins to reveal itself — The Division hands-on impressions
There have been multiple things revealed during E3 2015, but one of the most overlooked is the actual release date for The...
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5.4KBigger is better – Halo 5: Guardians Warzone preview
After what many considered to be an ill-advised departure from classic arena combat in recent Halo games, Halo 5’s beta showed players...
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6.1KCo-op across worlds — hands-on impressions of Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition
Divinity: Original Sin was a smash hit on PC, coming in the summer gaming drought to revitalize CRPG players with a breath...
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2.4KTom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands E3 impressions
It was Ubisoft’s big surprise for their Press Conference, and it is easily one of the bigger surprises of E3. I’m, of...
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2.3KDon’t act a fool – Act of Aggression Hands-On
Strategy games are still a thing. I played Act of Aggression which is a mostly by-the-books real-time strategy game that harkens back...
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5.7KPlaying soccer in a car has never been this fun — Rocket League Hands-On Impressions
Currently, one of the hottest trends in video games is the growth of multiplayer. Within the past three years, we have seen...
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3.0KDeus Ex: Mankind Divided evolves on its predecessor in every way
The year is 2029, just two years after the events of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The world has changed. At the end...
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2.0KConsole conquest — Hands-on with Armello
When it comes to certain genres, some games just don’t play well using a controller. Chief among them are strategy games and...
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2.4KAugmented warfare: a first look at Black Ops III’s multiplayer and specialists
After a night spent with the multiplayer of Black Ops III, I could only think of one word: control. Treyarch’s shooter wants...
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3.7KPlanes, boats and automobiles — Skylanders SuperChargers hands-on impressions
In SuperChargers, you play as a Skylander defending Skylands from the evil Kaos, who threatens the world with his "Doomstation of Ultimate...
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3.9KGuitar Hero Live iterates the music genre
Guitar Hero Live isn’t the game you might be used to, and for a good while that had me worried. You see,...
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3.1KWargaming is Bringing World of Tanks to Xbox One in Style
World of Tanks is a free-to-play powerhouse on the Xbox 360. Since it launched in February 2014, Wargaming has had over four...
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1.9KConcrete jungle — hands-on with Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy
My first hour with Operation Abyss was spent lazily reading over screen after screen of text, trying to best absorb the heavy...
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12.9KHow The Witcher 3 changes open worlds forever
Open-world games are not exactly new. Akalabeth: World of Doom (precursor to the Ultima series) was arguably first, but games like The...
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3.2KGore, guns and gear – Killing Floor 2 previewed
Killing Floor is one of my go-to games, a title that survives every formatting and OS reinstall of my main PC gaming...
