Review: Paper Mario: The Origami King brings papercraft fun to the Switch
True Paper Mario power comes from knowing when to fold and when to hit baddies.
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To die again anew in Outward
For players that have the patience, Outward rewards you with a truly old-school RPG experience the likes of which we haven’t seen for years.
Review: Rise of the Ronin is Team Ninja’s take on an open-world soulslike
Team Ninja’s latest is an ambitious open-world samurai drama set in one of Japan’s most turbulent periods.
Review: Samurai Shodown finally slices its way onto the PC
PC players now get the chance to see what the fuss surrounding this beautifully bloody reboot of SNK’s classic franchise was all about.
The Last of Us Review
I would be a fool, a liar, and a contrarian lout to point fingers at the landscape of reviewers, snarl angrily, and with a nasally voice shout that The Last of Us isn’t a damn good game. It is. But I would also be a fool, a liar, and a conformist hack to say that…
Saints Row IV: Re-Elected gets my vote on the Switch ballot
It’s dumb fun that you won’t want to impeach.
From E3 2017: Vindicta offers a different solution for movement in VR
Figuring out movement in VR was one of the first major challenges for the platform. Traditional analog stick controls didn’t quite work with the first-person perspective games that make up the majority of the platform’s library. Teleportation has largely been adopted as the solution, acting as a suitable workaround to avoid motion sickness, but Vindicta…
E3 2014 – CounterSpy Hands-On Impressions
There’s was no shaking the feeling of déjà vu when I first approached CounterSpy at Sony’s booth at E3. It shares the same running and gunning ‘2.5D’ side scrolling mechanics that Shadow Complex featured, but the similarities stood aside for how CounterSpy sets itself apart when the action began and I started playing. CounterSpy is…
Chronology Review
Few concepts lend themselves to games as well as time travel. Jumping back and forth in time to solve problems makes the simplest of puzzles suddenly seem far more complex. Chronology is no different – to an extent. A breeze of a puzzle-plaformer, its challenges are few but satisfying, using its time travel concepts to…
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice humbles even the most hardened Souls veterans
In every From Software game there’s a moment where things click. In Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls, and Bloodborne, those moments were vague: a series of successes and failures that steadily taught me how to play. In Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, I still recall the exact moment everything clicked. His name was Genichiro. Genichiro is the…