More than four years after it first released, South Park: The Stick of Truth is finally swinging to what's presumably its final platform. Swinging like a certain pair of giant, hairy, flying testicles, that is. (Sorry, I couldn't resis...
"How about this stretch goal?" famed video game designer Brian Fargo asks on Twitter. Most crowdfunding ventures incentivize by upping development efforts -- new modes, console ports, that sort of thing. Fargo's going to try to buy the stud...
2B is not an arachnid, 2B is not a nerd, and 2B is not a cop. Someone's gonna catch an ass kickin' if they keep disrespecting 2B like this.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's Blackout is a battle royale that has been slightly more miniature than its competitors. Call of Duty's first crack at battle royale has hovered in the 80-some player range during beta testing. That's a lot, but i...
Lara Croft has always lived in her father's shadow. This famed archaeologist devoted the latter years of his life searching for The Divine Source, a Fountain of Youth-type mythological key to immortality. Like Ponce de León, he never...
There are a good handful of games that have been published by Microsoft Studios that seemed to be permanently exclusive to Xbox One and Windows 10. As it turns out, that exclusivity isn't permanent. Tomorrow, a bunch of Xbox exclusives will...
Bethesda's soft reboot of Wolfenstein in 2014 was always paced out like a trilogy. There has been some confusion about this because the next Wolfenstein will be Youngblood and that's some sort of spinoff future story. Also, t...
They're out of Assassin's Creed games to remaster. This morning, Ubisoft announced its intentions to put out remasters of Assassin's Creed III and Assassin's Creed III: Liberation next spring. Liberation was already rema...
Season 5 of RLCS ended on the highest possible note. The two most dominant sqauds -- Team Dignitas and NRG -- faced off in the Grand Finals. It's a double elimination tournament, and Dignitas was technically the underdog since it had alrea...
Fumito Ueda is video game royalty. That's bound to happen when you're the mind behind classics such as Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and The Last Guardian. Ueda's next project aims to be about as big as these behemoths of game design. In an ...
Forza has always had us driving in style, as there has never been a shortage of top-tier swanky performance luxury cars. And it's a series that's no stranger to crossovers -- like when the Halo car made an appearance in Forza Horizon 3...
Did you know there's a National Quiet Radio Zone in the US? It's a 13,000 square-mile chunk of land that spans parts of Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. The purpose of keeping a heavily-restricted radio frequency-free zone is to condu...
It's kind of a small miracle that Darksiders III is getting made -- or at least the way it's getting made. Back in 2013, Vigil Games (developer of Darksiders and its sequel) went belly-up alongside its parent company THQ. A bunch ...
It's tough to pin Life is Strange down to a single theme. It's about love and family and personal relationships and sacrifice and growing up. For the sequel, it seems as if that last one will be more prevalent than any others. At this ...
Gris is an absolutely stunning game. The first title from Spanish studio Nomada made a splash in mid-August when it announced a publishing deal with Devolver Digital. Anyone can immediately tell it's a real looker. That beauty isn't j...
A mere four days before Treyarch and Activision christen Black Ops 4's Blackout mode with a private beta, we're finally treated to the first dedicated look at Call of Duty's take on battle royale. Details have trickled out in recent days -...
Psyonix has finally implemented the long-awaited Rocket Pass, which is a sort of event subscription for earning cosmetic items through gameplay. The closest analog is probably Fortnite's Battle Pass. It's Rocket League's way of making level...
Preview demos rarely coddle, but they're also almost always accessible. Like, the whole point is to get a good broad understanding for what a game hopes to accomplish. On a subconscious level, there's probably something to be said for makin...
This kitten's got claws. And a rocket launcher. And a double jump. Gato Roboto is Devolver Digital's surprise reveal for PAX West. It's a lo-fi metroidvania that's clearly inspired by the design of revered genre-definers like Super Met...
I've never played Resident Evil 2. And, I knew that Capcom's Resident Evil 2 remake wouldn't be showing any new content at PAX West. Still, I had to get an appointment. CJ's E3 hands-on was enough to convince me that this is something I nee...
Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes just got a firm release date which is both great news and reason to pause. The Switch-exclusive Grasshopper Manufacture game launches on January 18, 2019. But, that's kind of a small semi-delay, as ...
Remedy has carved a reputation for itself as a narrative-first studio. It makes singleplayer games first and foremost, and every one of those games (Max Payne, Alan Wake, Quantum Break, et al) has a strong story carrying it. Remedy's next t...
Xbox is finally diverging from the all-black aesthetic for its best console and controller. Later this year, the Xbox One X and the Elite controller will be available in white. The centerpiece of this announcement is the Xbox One X Fallout...
Spider-Man releases in September (next week, in fact!) but there will be more new Spider-Man in October, November, and December. Developer Insomniac Games has outlined Spidey's DLC schedule, and its three add-ons swing out through the ...
After 800 million years in development (all numbers approximate), Chasm finally released in late July on PC, PS4, and Vita. It was pretty dang good! This procedurally-generated metroidvania was a success, even in a launch window that w...
