Zipping around in Spider-Man (PS4) for the first time at E3 brings back memories of Batman: Arkham Asylum, and I mean that in all the best ways. Rocksteady raised our collective expectations for superhero games in 2009; Insomniac is on trac...

Six hours after my hands-off hour-long demo of Cyberpunk 2077, I finally got a chance to sit down to write out my thoughts. That quarter of a day, those 360 minutes, have done nothing to quell how goddamn fucking excited I am for this game....

E3 is a rather lousy place to play Dragon Quest XI for the first time. Sessions are limited to just 15 minutes, and with two small maps to explore with a bevy of points of interest, a single session isn't even a proper amount of t...

I've been a fan of Pixar for most of my life. Whenever Pixar gets around to making a new movie, whether it's an original movie or a sequel, there are a few things you can be certain of. It's going to make a fortune at the box office, i...

Remedy is finally breaking free of the linear narrative formula that it has damn near perfected over the past 20+ years. For its seventh game, Control, it's wading into the waters of the open-world genre. We were shown a 20-some-minute hand...

For a while now, there have been claims from fans that the maps in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds are basically asset flips. To quickly get the uninformed up to speed, asset flips are when a developer buys things like character models or bui...

It's easy to assume the heart of the Metro series lies in the tunnels that snake below Russia's irradiated surface. They're the capillaries through which both Metro 2033 and Last Light's story unfolded, claustrophobic veins occupied by...

Arc System Works' countdown clock, which has been running the last couple of days, has ticked away its final minute, thus revealing that the developer will be publishing a new title, developed by A+ Games, based on popular anime Kill la Kil...

I love it when developers can succinctly describe their game and capture its tone in an original way. Ninjala, a newly-announced Nintendo Switch title from GungHo Online Entertainment, belongs to the "ninja gum action" genre. Trust me, it m...

Look, I don't think we have to talk about the live action 2017 Death Note movie at length. But some people probably want to at least have a chat about Willem Dafoe, who did an excellent job with the menacing meddler Ryuk. Dafoe, a...

I like to jot down a few notes before I write about a game. It helps me get my mind in the right place. After spending some hands-on time with Killer Queen Black, I immediately took out my notebook and started writing.  It wasn't until...

Activision absolutely hit it out of the park last year with the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy on PlayStation 4. It was a beautiful throwback to the early years of 3D platformers before developers actually started getting good at maki...

Back in July of 2016, a fan created an incredible concept for a skin in Heroes of the Storm -- Janitor Leoric. Based on the Diablo villain's moveset from the game, and subbing in mop for a mace and a bathroom for a makeshift crypt...

Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society -- the song I've been listening to this entire week, "Devil Trigger." I've espoused its greatness across several writeups now and I think it's all out of my system. Anyway onto the news! My...

One of the things Sony has been most consistent about this generation is its sales. It typically has some blowouts, especially for PS+ subscribers, and there's at least one or two "must buys" in all of those. For the "Best of E3" sale, whic...

The E3 machine came to a close and if you're already mulling on the next Elder Scrolls or Assassin's Creed title, both publisher and retailers are keen on taking advantage of the increase hype and exposure generated during E3. This week dig...

It has been roughly half a year since Blizzard announced it would be releasing a vanilla version of World of Warcraft. Dubbed "Classic," we only really knew that it was happening and not which version of the game it would be based on. Would...

Man I wish I could stitch! I've delved into a few arts and crafts-esque hobbies (arts and crafts adjacent even), but this is something to aspire to. Reddit user mitniftus posted this just before the weekend, and it makes me want to bust out...

Hello everyone, FakePlasticTree here to bring you a special edition of Comments of the Week, centered entirely around the Sony Conference. In a somewhat surprising, and yet not all that surprising, turn of events, Sony done goofed with a he...

Bless me readers, for I have sinned. It's been 3000 three years a while since my last Carter's Quest, as I took on new responsibilities and lost the ability to trek through entire franchises in my spare time. But with recent milestones like...

Nintendo didn't dive into the ocean when they released the first Splatoon, they dipped their toe in the pool. I vividly recall going to its first preview event years ago, and there was an air of uncertainty with pretty much everyone involve...

Another Electronic Entertainment Expo has come to an end. We laughed, we cried, we ate Drake's Cakes. Well, I didn't do the latter, I'm pretty sure we don't have that brand in Blighty. Thanks a lot, Brexit.In all, some 69,200 punters attend...

Amazingly, it's been five years since Naughty Dog released their stealthy survival horror title The Last of Us. Launching on PS3 (and later PS4) to incredible hype, the game was a smash hit with the gaming community thanks to its creepy atm...

Earlier this year, a Mario Tennis Aces tote bag featured images of three characters who had yet to be announced as contenders for the Switch sports title: classic enemy Koopa Paratroopa, mischievous scamp Diddy Kong, and the egg-firing Bird...

1994's Shaq Fu isn't the Worst Game Ever, as hyperbolists like to trot out, but it was pretty damn bad. Sure, it was a bizarre one-on-one fighter which featured then-Orlando Magic NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal and a bunch of aliens and mon...