In the middle of a hot dog bite, detective Jack Kelly gets a call about a burglary at the senator’s house. Soon after entering he subdues the suspect, but when he ventures further inside, he sees that the senator’s safe is empty and the back window is wide

Codenames was a breakout hit. The accessibility and price made it a staple of many game nights. It even claimed the Spiel des Jahres of 2016. CGE could have gone the easy way and created an expansion with more words to add to Codenames, but instead they added pictures to

Opening day comes, opening day goes. The same can be said for every new installment in a sports game: it arrives, shows off its new features, and becomes irrelevant the very next year. The MLB The Show franchise has been one of the more impressive in the sports genre, consistently

I’m amazed to say that after nearly 100 hours in Persona 5’s twisted depiction of Tokyo, I never once felt like it was wasting my time. In this time frame, I spent as little time as I possibly could exploring the game’s distorted dungeons and fighting monsters

Shiness: The Lightning Kingdom is an action RPG being developed by French studio Enigami. We got our hands on it and find an abundance of Waki constipation and prejudice. What? Watch and find out how the first hour or so of this quirky new game unfolds.

I went into Miko Mole with a bit of optimism. “Hey, it’s a new game. That’s never a bad thing, right?” Big mistake. Maybe the graphics should have tipped me off from the start. They look like they could have been done in a mildly ambitious Nintendo 64

The title just about says it all. Editor Zach Faber and I lost a frustratingly continuous string of matches during Relic’s Dawn of War III closed beta. Zach is brand new to RTS games, but bravely accepted the challenge, learning quickly. Unfortunately, he got stuck with a terrible teammate—

On paper, Yooka-Laylee achieves everything it sets out to do. It’s fun, full of life, and a successful homage to the golden age of Nintendo 64-era 3D platformers. Essentially, it delivers the exact gameplay experience that tens of thousands of Kickstarter backers yearned for. But while Yooka-Laylee provides a