Game Reviews

Blue Rider feels a lot like a game from the arcade era, when a game’s difficulty curve was based on how fast quarters could be spent rather than how one could be challenged.  It’s a simple, easy to pick up twin stick shooter with a few new mechanics,

When Nordic Games snapped up the vast majority of the intellectual properties THQ left in the wake of its implosion, I never would have imagined that a PS4 version of Destroy All Humans! was going to emerge from that process. An action/adventure from the PS2 era, the game was

I had some high praise for Ashes of the Singularity seven months ago, but noted that there were some weakness in the campaign mode. I also found the some of the units and base building lacking. The team at Stardock are known for making incredible strategy games, but they are

Gas Guzzlers Extreme is an uninvited guest at the party of excellent current-gen racing games. Is it playable? Sure. But it shouldn’t warrant your attention when just about any other game in the racing genre has more polish, depth and heart under their hoods. Still there? Okay then. Gas

I remember handing my mother a NES controller and then laughing as she bobbed her head and dodged the 8-bit pixels on the screen. We’ve come a long way since then, but what I didn’t know was that my mom was onto something. Eagle Flight, the first VR

Hitman is all about the process. It’s a defined line from point A to B: receive target, kill target. Through many years and iterations, Agent 47 acts as proxy for the player, an alien invader in an ecosystem. Your job is to execute, and do so with as little

The Sims 4 City Living is one of the best expansion packs in the entire series. It changes the way you can play in new and meaningful ways, and is full of fresh experiences and stories to tell. I had a blast playing in the city of San Myshuno, exploring

Many of the launch titles for PSVR could be classified as tech demos. Tumble VR is a notch above that moniker, but in a game about stacking blocks, how high could it possibly rise? Tumble VR is essentially a number of Jenga-style puzzles performed in VR. Part physics simulator, part