A horror game must be a hard thing to demo in a short span of time, with little opportunity to set up any stakes or tension and truly earn any thrills. But kudos to SEGA and Creative Assembly for giving it a go anyway, ushering myself and other media into an almost-pitch-black basement wherein lie […]
I went into a preview session with Control Resonant at Summer Game Fest 2026 with some trepidation. As a huge fan of the original Control, the idea of a sequel was always going to be exciting, but everything I’d seen of this one so far had been… off-putting. What I love most about Control, and
It used to be that ignorance was bliss, but it’s becoming increasingly apparent that ignorance is now the baseline to getting through a regular day crisis-free. We’re all turning a blind eye to something just to get by at this point, and your particular interests or field of work may prescribe more or less. The
I’ve been to plenty of dedicated, hands-on game preview events in my career, but there’s always still opportunity for the circumstances to surprise me. When Nintendo invited me to play Rhythm Paradise Groove (which you might know as Rhythm Heaven Groove or Rhythm Heaven: Miracle Stars, based on where you live), I hadn’t anticipated sitting
As a long-time Sonic the Hedgehog fan, nothing excites me more than a new game announcement for the Blue Blur and pals – but I’ll cop to some hesitation that one of the scant few Sonic 35th Anniversary game reveals for Summer Game Fest 2026 is a spin-off of the Pico Park games. And it’s
As you may be able to infer from the title of this piece, I have never played a Star Fox game. Well, that’s not entirely true, I did play the hell out of Star Fox Adventures on the GameCube, but given that game’s development history and complete genre separation I think it’s safe to say
I’m not going to waste any time here because it is absolutely already in the pun-forward name – Dark Scrolls is a hard game. It’s not a Souls-adjacent game, more a rogue-ish platformer, but its moniker implies exactly the level of challenge on offer as well as revealing its true genre trappings as an auto-scrolling
I have, admittedly, never gotten around to playing 2019’s Heave Ho. It’s a game I’ve long wanted to try, but with a wealth of couch co-op puzzle games already out there and scientifically engineered to break up friendships at any function, it’s just never come up. But after playing just a few rounds of its
