For all of Assassin’s Creed Unity’s posturing as a next-gen, connected, online experience, it still remains just as entrenched in its own history––for good and for ill. Gone is the competitive multiplayer that few enjoyed and many ignored completely. In its place is an integrated cooperative system

I admit that I enjoy cooperative games because they are easier to play with non-gamer friends. While the games can sometimes be tougher to win, there’s nothing like celebrating a shared victory with everyone at the table. Finding a good cooperative game can be difficult, especially if it seems

When you hear a new game is coming from Bioware, you brace yourself.  This is a company that delivers compelling and interesting stories, where every companion is alive and so much more than a character class.  The choices are never black and white, and the consequences can reach far further

Must a game be unique to be great?  Can a game have all of the elements of greatness: fun and dynamic gameplay, solid storytelling and characters, and challenging obstacles that reward the player for their hard work and still fall short of the greatness mark because its familiarity within a

I so often find myself utilizing less­ than ­ideal mechanisms for the enjoyment of music and game audio (my buzzing car stereo, rattling TV speakers, or the tinny whistles of my smartphone), so Wicked Audio’s Reverb Headphones appeared as nothing short of a godsend for my ears that hungered

I made a lot of strange and entertaining comparisons during my time with Crowntakers. Among the first was Infinity Blade, where I originally encountered the now popular theme of playing a bloodline of characters who perpetually took up the sword and crusade of their predecessors. Soon afterward (and particularly when

Whispers around the internet led many of us to believe that a new franchise was going to be announced at this year’s BlizzCon. We even knew thanks to evidence of a registered trademark that the game was probably going to be called Overwatch. Sure enough, Blizzard VP Chris Metzen

It’s a familiar scene. We blink ourselves awake after just having been ejected from whatever military-grade vehicle we were riding in exploded. With our ears ringing and our vision blurred, we struggle to our feet while grenades explode all around us. A Black Hawk helicopter rips through the sky