Game Reviews

Note: The wonderful Blake Hester is on a short hiatus, so in his absence, I’ll be stepping in to cover the Hitman episodes until his return. I’m honored to follow up his excellent Hitman write-ups, which you can find here and here. Hitman is a puzzle. There’s

Not many games get a second chance at life like Odin Sphere. A PlayStation 2 role-playing game, released in the twilight years of the console’s lifetime, Odin Sphere was the topic of many whispers and rumblings, a banner-child for the cult-classics of games. With a remake two entire console

The power has gone out all across Electro City. It’s up to you, a tiny spark of electricity, to bring light back to the homes and businesses of the town. Will you be able to save the day? In TurnOn, you play as an electrified alien who crash lands

Fans have been asking for a follow-up to Mirror’s Edge for a long time, and with DICE’s ambitious open-world prequel, called Mirror’s Edge Catalyst, players will finally have the chance to jump back into one of the most beautiful dystopian futures seen in gaming. However, although Mirror’

When it comes to videogames that share the same genre, especially with how many we have these days, there are precious few things that can set them apart. Sometimes these differences are big. A title comes out bristling with new mechanics and features the gaming population has never seen before,

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan is a game which seems appealing on its surface, but one that I enjoyed considerably less each time I played. A visually-attractive four-player hack-and-slash by one of the action genre’s most prized developers, Mutants in Manhattan has a solid foundation for what

Our world is worth fighting for. – Mei Every match of Overwatch begins the same way. An opening line from a character, an exchange of dialogue between two heroes about to charge into battle, a snide remark before the chaos erupts. In music, silent moments speak as loud as the booming

Scare tactics is a timeless way of grabbing attention and making a group of people shift their focus. This is at the heart of many war stories, and that was especially true in the 2011 shooter Homefront. Developed by Kaos Studios, the first-person action game theorized a world in which