I wasn't exactly sure what I was getting into with Pikuniku, the new Devolver Digital-repped puzzle-platformer adventure for Switch and PC, but I knew I liked its long-legged antics and minimalist aesthetic. That was enough of a hook, and t...

Over the last few months, a few dedicated fans have been researching how weapon recoil works in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. While this is typically done to evaluate which weapons are the best or how to better utilize them in certain situ...

This past weekend, British YouTuber Hbomberguy sat down in front of Rare's 1999 Nintendo 64 release Donkey Kong 64 with two goals. Firstly, to reach 101% completion - a feat which had eluded him since childhood - and secondly, to raise mone...

According to Mortal Kombat 11 producer Trevor Traub, the Nintendo Switch edition of NetherRealm's upcoming gore-fest will not be strictly developed in-house. This Switch port will be handled by Shiver Entertainment instead.In an interview w...

So Masahiro Sakurai just dropped a bunch of tidbits over the weekend for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate by way of Nintendo Dream magazine, and some of them are pretty damn interesting. Most notably, Decidueye almost had Incineroar's s...

Have you ever played a game that caught you completely off guard and ends up resonating with you much more than expected? Wandersong did that for me. I knew that it looked right up my alley, and I always planned to eventually pick it up, b...

In case you haven't heard, Overwatch is wildly popular across the world and far exceeds the reach of just the Overwatch League. There's a bunch of smaller official collectives of tournaments like the Overwatch Contenders (OWC), not to menti...

Things are fairly quiet on all fronts when it comes to the post-Holiday UK Charts. While the stores no doubt feverishly wait for Capcom's Resident Evil 2 and Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts III, a selection of great titles jostle around the To...

No More Heroes, like its protagonist Travis Touchdown, is a bit of an odd duck nearly 12 years removed from its original Wii launch. His creator Goichi Suda (Suda 51) marches to the beat of his own drum, as does his company, Grasshoppe...

Video games have really changed as a storytelling medium. What was once a casual dash from left-to-right, dropping baddies and collecting shiny objects, opened up into new realms of drama, narrative, and even philosophical messages. Of cour...

I won't bury the lede here. Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown is a fantastic Ace Combat game. If any part of the pre-launch hype appealed to you, or if you played and enjoyed one of the previous numbered Ace Combat games, you owe it to ...

Role-playing games are one of the most flexible genres because unlike shooters or platformers or sports games, they are less identified by what the player does and more by how the player does it. RPG elements have become commonplace in doze...

SNK really went into overkill with their fighting titles in the '90s. Don't get me wrong, I love Samurai Shodown and Fatal Fury et al, with King of Fighters being in my top five franchises of all time, but the developer/publisher's love aff...

Just before the turn to 2019, Star Control: Origins was removed from Steam and GOG due to a DMCA takedown notice from two of the creators behind the original series. Publisher of Origins, Stardock, took to the Steam community forums to to l...

I have a confession to make. We were very close to passing by this one. In the business of finding gems at a place like PAX South, first impressions are huge. My first impressions for Dicey Dungeons aren't bad by any means, but it didn't ha...

YIIK: A Postmodern RPG is, as the title implies, a turn-based RPG that centers around a group of hipsters from the year 1999. A lot of its presentation is based around a mixture of 90s nostalgia and attempts to subvert genre conventions by ...

NetherRealm Studios has released an image of a new skin for Mortal Kombat 11's blood-draining warrior, Skarlet. The wicked new look continues in the vein of MK X's "Kold War" range of costumes, and sees Skarlet dressed in a military officer...

Ah, the farm-life sim. It's become something of a staple in my gaming diet. You might remember me checking in with My Time at Portia back when it first entered Early Access. That was almost a year to the day, and the post-apocalyptic t...

A lot of Sonic the Hedgehog fans were are very pleased with the Sonic Mania animated shorts that have been hitting the internet in the last year or so. This week, the official Sonic twitter dropped another jaunty adventure, but this time wi...

My lack of familiarity with the Metro franchise is painfully evident to everyone in the room less than 10 seconds after I’m handed the controller. As my comrades on the Aurora, the massive train jettisoning Artyom, Anna, and the rest ...

Expand your vocabulary with our contest for Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight! I have a college degree, if you can believe it. It's an English degree, which is why I write for a website in my spare time instead of working for a bank or ...

Resident Evil 2's One-Shot demo gives players half an hour and a single stressful chance to poke around the undead-infested police station. It's a brilliant concept for a horror game demo, particularly one with as much pent-up excitement an...

Like Lazarus, The Walking Dead: The Final Season has risen from the grave to continue shuffling toward its seemingly dour conclusion. After the unfortunate closure of Telltale Games last year, it seemed that all was lost for the story of Cl...

In the primordial days before your mom was on the internet, we grew up in fear of the other. In the '80s and '90s, we frequently spoke of the mist-shrouded land across the ocean that controlled most of the games we played. Whether we discus...

This week, we finally got out first look at the roster for NetherRealm Studios' upcoming face-masher Mortal Kombat 11. Confirmed playable were Outworld fighter Baraka, Special Forces agent Sonya Blade, sexually-charged ninja buddies Sub-Zer...