Xbox Reviews

As someone who would die on the hill that DMC: Devil May Cry is the best Devil May Cry game, I could not be more happy to see Ninja Theory returning to its brawler roots with Bleeding Edge, a self-proclaimed “hero brawler” that pits a diverse cast of characters against

Ori and the Blind Forest was one of the best reasons to own an Xbox One early in the console’s lifecycle, and now in the console’s twilight years its predecessor, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, hopes to close out that legacy with an ambitious follow-up. After

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