Reviews

Having taken the gaming world by storm both creatively and commercially, Minecraft has been melded into games of almost every imaginable genre, and it’s hard to think of a game that couldn’t fit within the Minecraft formula. Nearly any type…

A decade is a long time. It may not feel like it in the moment, but looking back shows you how long it really is. Ten years ago, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 were kings, adventure games were still mostly dead, and VR was a distant dream.…

It only takes one mistake. I pulled the trigger on my Gravometric Hook an instant before the Berserker was in range. An instant later, he clocked me in the face, and I was gone. I woke in up in Recovery inside a freshly printed clone body.…

There was a time when Saints Row was one of the biggest selling franchises in gaming. What started out as little more than a GTA clone in the early 2000s slowly morphed into something more and more ridiculous, and Saints Row carved itself a…

Seals dart playfully in the ocean waters as sunbathers crowd the beaches to relax in the golden sands. For the bull shark that lurks in the dark waters below, this idyllic scene is a lunch buffet. With an insatiable hunger driving its…

Mafia has always been a series of untapped potential, one that keeps hinting at greatness, but is held back by constant missteps. Nothing exemplifies that better than Mafia 2, a game that, in spite of an excellent story, by and…

One of the things that has been lost in the landscape of modern AAA gaming is the classic local co-op brawler and gunner experience. Games of this ilk used to be huge back in the day, whether on the arcade scene or on home consoles –…

I went into The Elder Scrolls: Blades with my expectations firmly in check. Though it bears the “Elder Scrolls” moniker, this was obviously never meant to be a game that tries to offer a similar kind of experience as the…

In the 1970s, Atari’s Pong captivated fledgling gamers across the world thanks to its ability to translate the sport of table tennis to two electronic paddles on a screen. Pong Quest evolves the formula, delivering a procedurally generated…

PlatinumGames’ mastery over the action games genre is known in all corners of the industry by now, and while the likes of Metal Gear Rising and Bayonetta 2 get countless plaudits for being some of the best games in the genre, one game…