Game Reviews

Whenever someone mentions “fighting games,” as a genre, there is always a franchise my mind goes to first: Street Fighter, the longest-lasting and oldest fighting game franchise. Thanks to Capcom’s Street Fighter II, fighting games became a worldwide hit and followed in the steps of what many consider to

The Wii U is dead, long live the Wii U. While the 3DS is still alive and kicking, a lot of well-established series on the handheld are saying their goodbyes and migrating to “that newfangled Switch machine.” Likewise, it seems that Office Create and Rising Star Games’ Cooking Mama franchise

There’s something about the 4X genre that, when compared to games like the Civilization series, makes it feel deep and comprehensive. Maybe it’s the vastness of space, and perhaps it’s the diversity of unfamiliar races, but there’s no doubt that the 4X genre is one that

In the face of some excellent, fluid combat and top notch animation, what impressed me most about Injustice 2 was its ability to overcome fighting genre shortcomings to integrate a story that mattered into its moment to moment gameplay. NetherRealm Studios utilizes the DC Comics source material to the fullest,

With triple-A games these days showing off how much they can achieve graphically, sometimes it’s great to just chill out with something simple. Ovivo is a great example of a game where less is more, as it depends on a singular mechanic to traverse its wonderful minimalist world. While

These days, games like Prey seem few and far between. There’s not one specific, unique mechanic promoted nor is there a grand overarching narrative that promises to tie you up for a trilogy. Instead, it’s a simple run through an empty space station where you spend a majority

Punch a tree. Make some tools. Dig a hole. Every new playthrough of Minecraft begins as such, and though numerous changes and additions have come over the years, the core gameplay will always come from mining and crafting. That being said, this most recent version does bring enough new changes

I was 12 years old when the Fire Emblem series came to North America for the first time. The seventh game in the series, simply called “Fire Emblem” at the time (now referred to as Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade), was released in 2003. At that time, Advance Wars and