The digital world is crawling with Diablo-likes (erm, I mean ‘Action Role Playing Games’ or ARPGs), but so many of them seem to agree on many things all in the name of convention or convenience. So what happens when a designer sees a two-dimensional world and decides to step sideways?

We didn’t appreciate Madden NFL 16 enough. It received some of the highest praise of any Madden game, and definitely the most in the past six or seven years, but I think sports fans really undervalued the drastic improvement from 15 to 16. It brought about Draft Champions, one

Joe joins Kenneth and Eric once again as the trio discusses the divisive game that is Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and what it does or doesn’t say with its Mechanical Apartheid. Along with Deus Ex, we also talk Titanfall 2’s attempts to improve upon its predecessor, how Danganronpa

Reading the Steam store description of Shattered Skies is an enjoyable experience, like laying down money for a Powerball lottery ticket when the prize pool has kicked into nine-digit territory. Full-loot PVP in an open-world FPS game? With crafting, dynamic PVE-PVP objectives and skill progression? For a certain subspecies of

Hey, remember The Penguins of Madagascar? I was a bit surprised at the spinoff series that stemmed from the Madagascar franchise due to its goofy and off-the-wall nature. Following the series’ 2014 film, Titan Comics released a four-issue run of the adventures of Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private as they

I’m standing in the secret room behind the office of the Palisade Bank’s CEO, grabbing a particularly damning document that I obtained at great personal risk. It’s how I got here that takes the stable platform of Deus Ex: Human Revolution (my review from five years ago

From the moment it was announced, Metroid Prime: Federation Force has been met with skepticism. Fans who had been clamoring for a traditional sequel to the normally-stoic Metroid series were understandably discouraged by this cutesy and colorful spin-off. It comes with great surprise, then, that Metroid Prime: Federation Force still

Starvation looms, birds stalk the skies, and you can only save the warren by braving the forest and returning home safe. Carrotia is a cooperative tile-laying game that you can only enjoy as long as you are comfortable with very technical definitions of those three terms. The concept and gameplay