There are few times where I’d find myself encouraging of a game developer, especially one that’s built a reputation on delivering creative, unique experiences with each subsequent game, to go straight into a sequel off the back of a hit. It is inevitable, however, and in the case of Supergiant Games and Hades II, I […]
AI is bad. Humans are an expandable impedance to progress. You are the last guy, tasked with exposing and eliminating whatever rogue system has kicked off the end of life as we know it. This is charted territory in fiction, a cautionary tale repeated over decades. But few masters of doomsday sci-fi possessed the kind
When we talk about musical video games there are a few possible things that can be in discussion. There are games driven purely by music, Guitar Hero and Beat Saber are good examples, or there are games with a strong musical theme, like Hi-Fi Rush and Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Music. Keep looking, and you’ll
I try my best not to spend too much time comparing one game to another in the context of a review. It tends to get in the way of looking at the game in front of me and assessing it for what it is. But in the case of Beyond Words – a game you
I’ve been a longtime enjoy of the kind of moody, often satirical, never quite family-friendly breed of 2.5D platformer currently exhibited by the likes of Inside and Little Nightmares, but stretching as far back as something like Abe‘s Odyssey. The kind of game that’s good for a one-and-done weekend playthrough and asks for very little
Now, I’ve never been much of a car person, or into motorsports at all. But I have watched enough Initial D and spent enough time in Tokyo arcades or playing golden-era Need for Speed for Screamer to speak to me. A return from Milestone to its own 90s arcade racing series of the same name,
Crimson Desert is out this week on Friday, March 20 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, and the reviews have begun rolling in. As it currently stands, the game is sitting on a pretty healthy aggregated score of 78 on Metacritic. While we don’t have a review up for this one (we’re still a new site!), it’s clear based on
Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection is out this week on Friday, March 13 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC, and the reviews have begun rolling in. While we don’t have a review up for this one (we’re still a new site!), there’s plenty of reason to feel optimistic about this one given how glowing
