After what many considered to be an ill-advised departure from classic arena combat in recent Halo games, Halo 5’s beta showed players that the series would be returning to its roots. Many fans rejoiced at the end of loadouts, ordnance drops, and armor abilities–myself included. But surely not

Divinity: Original Sin was a smash hit on PC, coming in the summer gaming drought to revitalize CRPG players with a breath of fresh air. It was really enjoyable, and though it certainly wasn’t perfect, it was the right game at the right time for a large subset of

It was Ubisoft’s big surprise for their Press Conference, and it is easily one of the bigger surprises of E3. I’m, of course, talking about Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands. It’s been a few years since our last outing with Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, but the

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 to the days of Westwood’s Command & Conquer and Blizzard’s Starcraft. It has nothing to do with defending a tower or a lane, but it has

Currently, one of the hottest trends in video games is the growth of multiplayer. Within the past three years, we have seen an exponential growth in the amount of multiplayer games such as Towerfall and Nidhogg.  That trend has continued to grow, and one of the newest multiplayer games to

The year is 2029, just two years after the events of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The world has changed. At the end of the previous game, augmented individuals lost control of their implants, causing a global catastrophe. Though the world is still recovering, the populous has descended into fear and

When it comes to certain genres, some games just don’t play well using a controller. Chief among them are strategy games and board games, which are usually plagued by a poorly translated control scheme that hinders your ability to move around a battlefield efficiently. After some hands-on time with

Building a finely-tuned economy is important in almost all Euro-style games. The critical decision players must make is when to stop focusing on their economic engine and start turning resources into victory points. The best games offer a variety of strategies, making that decision less clear, tempting players with the