Xbox Reviews

Simulacra is a horror game experienced entirely on the screen of a phone you find sitting on your doorstep. A technical glitch in the phone shows you the passcode for it, so you begin to snoop and quickly discover that it belongs to a pretty young woman named Anna, who

Need for Speed has had a spotty track record of late, often struggling to find a style that stands out. With Need for Speed Heat, Ghost Games leans into the underground tuner culture of past games and cribs the overused family themes from the Fast & Furious franchise to little

The world can be a hostile environment. With mother nature’s powers unrivaled, it’s easy to succumb to the elements. In The Long Dark, you are fighting for survival, not only against mother nature, but against eerie and unnatural events. The Long Dark is a first-person survival game spread

When developer Deck 13 released The Surge in 2017, the franchise had a lot to prove. A sci-fi Dark Souls game sounds great in theory, but after Lords of the Fallen, it became clear that the souls-like genre is not so easily replicated. The effort paid off, against all odds,

In 2016, the Gears of War franchise came bursting out of its cocoon, having been transformed into something entirely new by developer The Coalition, Xbox’s studio dedicated to the franchise. But where Gears of War 4 felt like the Coalition proving that it could make a Gears game, Gears

Editors note: shortly after this review was written, a patch was released that was intended to fix various bugs in the game. While some of the glitches and performance issues were either fixed or slightly improved, and it is now possible to experience all content in the game, the game

The next highly-anticipated installment in the venerated Gears of War series is on the horizon, and Microsoft is celebrating the upcoming launch. Not only have they announced a limited edition Gears of War 5 Edition Xbox One X (you can see it here), they’ve also teamed up with Seagate

I am always on the lookout for new, fun games I can play with my five year old. Must Dash Amigos by miniBeast Games is an easy to play multiplayer battle-racer game, and it was right up our alley. The graphics are simple and fun, and almost seem more fit