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...

FreakZone Games has announced that it will be porting both of its Angry Video Game Nerd titles to consoles in the near future. Coming in a bundle titled Angry Video Game Nerd I & II Deluxe, the compilation will feature a completely rebu...

The early 2000s were a boon for action games. The PS2 was hitting its stride and would go on to cement itself as one of the most extravagant purveyors of the genre. While there were plenty of wild risks that seemed to endlessly pay off, a s...

The past several years have been hard for Halo: The Master Chief Collection, to put it lightly. On the one hand, I don't fault fans who felt burned by the sorry state of the compilation. On the other hand, 343 Industries' commitment to set ...

Can you believe we're almost at the end of the first month of 2019?.. You can? Well, for me it's been pretty fast-moving, despite the fact that I've been particularly stationary (the state of being, that is, not the letter-writing equipment...

A huge swath of video game-related video content was erased with one fell swoop yesterday. Machinima, a large network of YouTube gaming channels, had all of its videos removed without any sort of prior warning given to the creators. This co...

Sony has gone all-in on PlayStation flash sales these past couple years, and if there are any signs that the now-regularly-scheduled deals are going to simmer down in 2019, I'm not seeing them. This weekend's PS4, PS3, and Vita flash sale p...

Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes launches exclusively on Switch today, and anyone who picks it up will notice that there's an extensive wardrobe for Travis Touchdown to wear. That's because Suda51 and Grasshopper Manufacture includ...

Don't you just love Friday releases? It's so freeing to be able to stay up late with a new game knowing full well you can continue where you left off the next day (and catch up on lost sleep another time). As a reviewer, I much prefer Tuesd...

Since both Dan and I listed Resident Evil 2 as one of our most anticipated games for 2019, we obviously had to the play the new "One-Shot" demo over the weekend. After a grueling 30 minutes spent running through the renovated ruins of Racco...