Game Reviews

It seems you can make anything a video game these days, whether it be a cooking simulator or “Tinder for monarchs”. Developer Cosmografik with ARTE has created one such zany idea in the form of Type:Rider, where you have to traverse a land of typography in a slow-burning platformer.

There are certain people in the industry that have created entire genres. Koji Igarashi (more often known simply as “Iga”) is the man responsible for bringing us the incredible classic vampire slaying platformer Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Following Symphony, Igarashi worked on a number of Castlevania titles including Circle

Quantic Dream and founder/director David Cage struck gold in 2010 with the release of Heavy Rain, the first interactive drama to really knock the socks off of both gamers and would-be gamers alike. It set the precedent for all future interactive dramas and graphic adventure games whether they’d

I think it’s safe to say that the Mario platforming series has quite a storied history. From the injection of Super Mario Bros. into the console scene back in 1985, Nintendo has sustained the AAA, 2D platformer for the past thirty-four years via the Mushroom Kingdom. But, in my

Considering Metroid Prime 4 isn’t due for quite some time, there have been a ton of Metroidvania games to fill in the alien-shaped hole Samus has left. From Salt and Sanctuary to Dead Cells and even the recently released Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, there’s no shortage of

I don’t know what caused Cthulhu to become the latest trend for the horror games industry, but it seems we’re in something of a Lovecraftian renaissance. No sooner had I finished playing developer Cyanide’s Call of Cthulhu that I learned about developer Frogware’s The Sinking City.

At first glance, Judgment looks a lot like Yakuza with a different character in the lead. Created by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, the developer of Yakuza, Judgment borrows liberally from the popular series. Its combat looks and feels extremely similar, its story deals with the shady machinations of various Yakuza

I love sim games, they just trigger the dopamine center in my brain and come in somewhere between addiction and guilty pleasure. I most enjoy sim games which I’m able to take on the go, and so despite having logged a frankly embarrassing number of hours on the PC