Game Reviews

If you’re wondering how it would feel to become one of the lucky few who play sports simulation games, you can try a simple test before diving in headfirst.  Take about five or so dollars, go online and buy a full set of basketball cards from, like, 1993.  Now,

Loot, shoot, repeat; that’s the mantra of Ubisoft’s newest open-world game The Division. Set amidst the broken remains of Manhattan after a viral outbreak, embedded special agents have been sent in to re-establish order and possibly find a cure to the mysterious disease known only as Green Poison.

Black Desert Online is the most surprising game I’ve played in a while. From a distance, the game seems as if it will be very ‘samey’ – only the latest, if prettiest, iteration of the same old grind-and-gear gameplay any seasoned MMO player has experienced by now. But get up

I’m very, very picky about my PC case. I’m not one of those people that covers it in a cacophony of colorful LEDs, but I have a specific set of features I look for in the box that’ll hold all of these expensive components. In my most

Ironically, it is its size that both benefits and hinders Hitman. Taking an episodic format, the recent entry into the long-running Hitman series aims to deliver a AAA experience in a truncated, staggered envelope. The first episode achieves a massive scale in both setting and player agency, but that scale

It’s been a couple years since I first took on the role of the torch-headed familiar, Hundred Knight, and clumsily (borderline inaudibly) swore my allegiance to the excitable swamp witch Metallia, beginning my lonesome quest to free her from her self-described undeserved captivity. It was an ironically cheerful story

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