Games To Help Keep My New Year's Resolutions
It’s time to put 2021 in the rearview mirror and look forward to the new year. For most of us, that means thinking about how to make 2022 an even better year than the last with some New Year’s...
View ArticleDeath Stranding Director's Cut Is Worth Another Trek Across America
Admittedly, it'd take very little for me to be on board with a Death Stranding Director's Cut. It only needed to be more Death Stranding for me to be sold on revisiting Hideo Kojima's latest vanity...
View ArticleIt's Time For Sports Video Games To Abandon The Annual-Release Model
I've been covering sports games for more than a decade now, and I've been playing them for nearly three times that long. Whenever I talk to anyone about the latest middling entry in Madden NFL or NBA...
View ArticleTop 10 Meta Quest Games To Play Right Now
Virtual reality hasn’t caught on as quickly as some predicted, but VR headsets have managed to amass an impressive collection of software in the last few years regardless. And given Sony's recent PSVR2...
View ArticleOur Most Anticipated Action Games Of 2022
Action! We all love it, and some of the best games have it, whether that takes the form of a bombastic shooter, sword-clashing melee fest, or good old-fashioned brawler. Action is one of the most...
View ArticleWhy PlayStation VR2 Has Us Excited For The Future Of Gaming
One of the worst experiences I ever had in virtual reality was rolling credits on Half-Life: Alyx. Not playing the game – mind you – that was fantastic. No, I hated rolling credits on the game because...
View ArticleEight Promising Improvements Coming To Horizon Forbidden West
Horizon Zero Dawn set a solid foundation for Guerrilla Games to build upon in Horizon Forbidden West, and the developer isn’t about to let this opportunity pass it by. For the upcoming sequel,...
View ArticleWhy You Should Play More Yakuza Right Now
I’m old enough to remember when the first Yakuza game released on the PlayStation 2 in 2006 (2005 in Japan). That initial release was treated like a joke in the U.S. Yakuza was seen as a Japanese crime...
View ArticleComparing Dying Light 2's Length To Other Notoriously Long Games
Over the weekend, developer Techland made waves on social media by tweeting that its upcoming open-world zombie sequel, Dying Light 2: Stay Human, would take "at least 500 hours" to fully complete....
View ArticleHow Guerrilla Games Is Taking Aloy To New Places In Horizon Forbidden West
Aloy’s resilience, passion, and curiosity made players fall in love with her in Horizon Zero Dawn. For the sequel, she’s not the same underdog we watched come into her own. She’s proven herself,...
View ArticleAstroneer Releases On Switch Today, But Performance Far From Stellar
After launching on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC in 2019, Astroneer, complete with the Xenobiology update, arrives today on Switch. The game has won its share of fans over the years since its launch, and...
View ArticleGod Of War Devs Talk PC Release, Mod Support, And Playing With Keyboards
God of War was one of the best games released in 2018, and it will probably be one of the best games to release in 2022 because it’s now coming to PC. To find out what made that game great in the first...
View ArticleOur Most Anticipated RPGs Of 2022
From small personal stories to bombastic god-fighting adventures, RPGs can provide compelling journeys with the potential to draw you in for hours, days, or weeks at a time. Not only do they stretch...
View ArticleMario Kart Needs A Super Smash-Style Makeover
Mario Kart is a fantastic franchise – one of Nintendo’s best, easily – but it’s time for it to come to an end. Now, that’s a bit of a loaded phrase, but I wholeheartedly mean it: we don’t need another...
View ArticleAftermath Of Success: Stardew Valley, Darkest Dungeon, And Valheim
Imagine waking up to find the little-known passion project you have been working on for years has rapidly become popular beyond your wildest expectations. It's the kind of success developers dream of,...
View Article6 Great Games That Are Much More Than Meets The Eye
Never judge a book by its cover. That’s a great lesson in general, especially for video games, but even more so for a select batch of games that are far more than they appear on the surface. While many...
View ArticleThe Resurrection & Reinvention Of Telltale Games
When titles like The Secret of Monkey Island became rarer, so too did Jamie Ottilie’s time with the adventure genre, and, like many, he moved on to other increasingly popular types of games. But then,...
View ArticleThe Best Deckbuilding Games To Play Right Now
Deck builders are played with cards, but all too often, they’re lumped into core card games like Magic: The Gathering, Hearthstone, Legends of Runeterra, Yu-Gi-Oh!, or others. While certainly there are...
View ArticleOur Most Anticipated Indie Games Of 2022
With so many amazing indie titles released last year, you’d think it would be tough for 2022 to measure up. But somehow, this year is just as ridiculously stuffed with awesome-looking experiences....
View ArticleDead Activision Blizzard Franchises Microsoft Should Bring Back
Now that Microsoft is set to acquire Activision Blizzard for an eye-splitting $68.7 billion, it’s starting to feel like the software and gaming giant owes nearly half the game industry. At the very...
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