It’s exciting to see a game challenge ideas like Superhot does. Taking the constraints of an action-packed, adrenaline-pumping first-person shooter and slowing it down, pinpointing every minute and second in detail that cuts the chaff in an ecstatic pulse; that high, though, doesn’t always last. Inside the world

Expectations are usually high when major franchises meet: Batman and Superman, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Family Guy and The Simpsons. The results can be erratic, a resounding success or a massive failure, but sometimes it just meanders around. Project X-Zone 2 is both exactly what you might expect from a

Sometimes a story can be simple, or have elements that are predictable, but the way that it’s told makes it come alive. That is how DISTRAINT struck me; it might seem like a fairly straightforward game, but it really does have its own personality. DISTRAINT is a 2D adventure

We’re talking about a lot more than games in this week’s episode of the GT Reboot, as Marvel, Disney, and airplane-related trauma are all on the show’s docket. But in terms of the stuff you probably came here for, Eric just got back from seeing Battleborn, but

One of the most common things I’ve heard about Battleborn since its announcement was that it was a “first-person MOBA.” Gearbox Software, the developers of Battleborn, prefer to call the game a “hero shooter,” a label that has stuck a little more. But after several matches of the new

As someone who studied the humanities in college, let me just say that I know virtually nothing about engineering or building flyable planes. Even the one physics class I took in high school turned into gibberish in my brain. However, for the most part I can say that SimplePlanes is

Normally when the GT Reboot Podcast experiences technical issues we damn these broken shows to “the abyss,” but not this week loyal listeners. Instead, we opted to break the show in half, sprinkle a little transitional music in there, and pick it up the next day. For the first half

Gareth Noyce has been making big budget games in the UK for over a decade, and has a reputation with gamers as a co-founder of Ruffian, which create the Crackdown series. Since departing from Ruffian, Gareth has spent the last few years of his time working on his first indie