Control is the sort of game that you don't stop thinking about when it's finished. It invites retrospect and analysis -- a thorough rehashing of everything you saw and read along the way, all in pursuit of connecting every little threa...

Super Meat Boy Forever feels like it's taking, well, forever. Originally set for April, Team Meat had to delay and set a new imprecise launch date of "After but not too far after April 2019." Now five months later, the clock keeps tick...

Some new details about Yakuza: Like A Dragon have come out from this week's Famitsu Magazine and we're starting to get a clearer picture of what Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios is doing. This latest entry in the long-running series is definitely doub...

It's never too early to start planning for the future. Monster Hunter World: Iceborne is out today on consoles, and as eager as I am to dive in with the general public following the expansion's pre-release review period, I can't help wonder...

When Super Meat Boy Forever eventually launches, the PC version will only be available on the Epic Games Store. That's a growing trend in the PC market, as Epic has made a concentrated effort to ink big-time names to exclusivity agreem...

Tim Schafer is a busy man as of late. As if the stress of developing Psychonauts 2 weren't enough, he's also managed to find time to sell his studio. At E3, Schafer took the stage at the Xbox press conference to announce that Microsoft...

Double Fine has had an important side hustle ever since 2014. Primarily a development studio, Double Fine started a publishing arm five years ago. The concept is mutually beneficial: Indie developers get their name attached to Double Fine's...

As games have evolved, artists have used them to tell stories in ways we could have never imagined, 20, or even 10 years ago. One of those trailblazers, Sam Barlow, managed to reinvigorate the FMV genre with Her Story in 2015, which he...

If there's one title from 2019 that came out of nowhere, kicked down the front door, and immediately captured the attention of the video game community, it's WayForward's upcoming brawler River City Girls. With a reveal trailer dropped like...

It feels like forever ago that Blizzard announced that they were winding down operations for Heroes of the Storm and cutting their entire eSports program, but that just happened this past December. Yet, in this past eight months, the r...

With E3 wrapped up and John Wick Hex development in full swing, things are looking up for everyone's favorite retired assassin. Giving fans a chance to see the behind-the-scenes action, Mike Bithell and his team have uploaded a short featu...

Steven Sinclair, director of Warframe, is excited. He and his team at Digital Extremes are pushing hard on a massive new expansion for the game. The centerpiece of it is the Railjack system, a new battleship players will be able to take int...

Metal Wolf Chaos is a wild video game, one that many of us have seen, but few have played. It's an extremely patriotic 21st-century tale about the President of the United States, Michael Wilson, fending off a military coup led by his treach...

The Angry Video Game Nerd does his best to be empathetic, especially compared to his successors. In this world of near-constant Youtuber and Twitch personality scandals, James seems like a downright sweetheart most of the time. Sam Beddoes ...

The Armored Core series feels like an increasingly distant memory at this point. While games like Daemon X Machina are carrying the torch, it's been almost six years since the last entry, Armored Core: Verdict Day. What's the story there? W...

Did you know that From Software made a virtual reality game? I feel like Déraciné, a boarding-school adventure starring an unseen faerie, never fully sunk in. It launched last November for PlayStation VR with assistance from S...

While From Software is mostly known for Souls and Bloodborne these days, the studio has a wide-ranging catalog of games dating back to King's Field and Armored Core on the original PlayStation. Elden Ring might be the hot new IP going forwa...

Suda51 doesn't seem to be quite sure of what he wants No More Heroes 3 to be. He knows the story he wants to tell. He's currently in the middle of writing the scenario for it, with the general plot of the game mapped out and the smaller sto...

At E3 2019 this year, I had the distinct honor of sitting down with Kazuki Hosokawa (producer for Judgment and Yakuza) from Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios and asking him about the future of the series and how each game gets made. As well as gettin...

Admittedly, we haven't seen a lot of Cyberpunk 2077 -- especially compared to the scope of the final product. Adding last year's E3 demo to this year's demo, we're up to approximately two hours of gameplay. But, what we have seen has b...

Last year, Sega announced that it would be remastering the PS3 Yakuza entries for release on PS4. The idea was to have each game playable on a single console and series producer Toshihiro Nagoshi even commented they were being done for...

Pop culture sweetheart Keanu Reeves showed up in an unlikely place at E3 2019: In one of the world's most anticipated video games. CD Projekt Red made a lot of headlines Sunday afternoon when it revealed that Reeves would play a prominent r...

Cyberpunk 2077 has a curious launch date. It will release on April 16, 2020 -- approximately six months before the next generation of consoles is expected to debut. With so many people questioning whether the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One...

One of the big, surprise announcements from Nintendo's E3 Showcase was the confirmation Suda51 is working on the oft-requested No More Heroes 3. In a presentation full of must-have titles, it was the standout for me. As luck would have it, ...

We all know how ridiculously popular Fortnite is. Making Epic Games hundreds of millions of dollars a year, the massive success of the battle royale game has spurred the creation of numerous pretenders to the throne. The battle royale craze...