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...

After a two-week break, Podtoid is back and the crew is in a post-E3 haze. As the industry tries to get back to normal, CJ, Chris, Occams, Dan, and Charlotte talk about the best games to come out of the show this year and the titles they wi...

Friends, I return from the City of Angels with good news: There are some ballin' fucking video games on the horizon. Thank you for your continued support of this superb critical analysis. This generation of consoles is nearly ready to ride...

My first experience with Stadia was playing Doom Eternal for half an hour or so last week at E3, and I can't think of a better game to showcase Google's game-streaming platform. It's fast, it's ferocious, and you know what? Stadia totally w...

I liked Ghost Recon Wildlands way more in theory than in execution, but with this year's follow-up, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, my mind is at ease. Ubisoft's E3 showing brought me around and, frankly, I'm as surprised as anyone by this turn of ...

There is no such thing as high-level Roller Champions because Roller Champions itself barely exists. Its introduction to the world came last week with an E3 announcement and a surprise technical alpha that was open to everyone. At...

The story of Psychonauts is one of the happiest underdog stories in recent memory. The original launched to critical acclaim in 2005 but underperformed so badly that plans for a sequel were scrapped fairly early on. The relative failure of ...

Ubisoft's approach to game design for the past decade can most succinctly be summed up as "more is better." More content, more open world, more everything. Sometimes it works out, like with Assassin's Creed Odyssey -- a game that felt ...

We've gone entirely too long without a new PC game that captures the magic of the original Zoo Tycoon, but with Planet Zoo this year, Frontier Developments is looking to set things right for neglected fans. It's a management sim in which yo...

The setting is anything but exciting. A labyrinthine office building, the sort of place where Karen from accounting navigates a maze of cubicles just to ask how your weekend was. She doesn't care. She's just looking to kill time before she ...

Nintendo's E3 Direct was full of a ton of surprises, but one of the more striking was the announcement of Empire of Sin. Feeling completely out of place for Nintendo's family-friendly image, the short teaser showed mobsters gunning down oth...

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair popped up unexpectedly a couple weeks ago, and we were able to get some hands-on time with it at E3 last week. It takes the lizard-and-bat duo from 2017's crowdfunded 3D platformer and flattens the actio...

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...

NIS America wasn't at E3 proper this year. A few blocks away from the convention center, it set up shop in a Chinese restaurant where the smells emanating from the kitchen made my stomach grumble even though I had just eaten about a half-ho...

CJ got the early take on Final Fantasy VII Remake at E3 this year, and after having played through the same section he did, I can agree with most of his observations. But this is one of those big deals so we needed to dig deeper than just t...

At one point in the hands-off gameplay demo of Dying Light 2 at E3, the Techland employee making decisions for the packed room to see on-screen turned on some pumps at a dam, draining one section of the city and flooding another. That one c...

It pains me to say it, but Pokémon Sword and Shield didn't have a particularly good E3. On a micro scale, Nintendo brought a 15-minute-or-so demo in which players got to battle and lightly puzzle-solve their way through a Poké...

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin has been in the making for some time. Developed by the two-man team at Edelweiss, it tells the story of Sakuna, the daughter of a harvest goddess and a god of war, as she divides her time between battling the m...

Sign me the heck up for video games that – like Carrion – let you wreak havoc on hapless humans as a monster. Whether it's an asymmetric multiplayer experience or a single-player power fantasy, I want in. The upcoming PC and con...

I'm not exactly well-versed in the Sniper Elite games, but I am familiar with the Nazi Zombie Army spin-off. Taking a lot of cues from Valve's Left 4 Dead, this diversion from sniping living Nazi soldiers added a more focused campaign to th...

Granblue Fantasy is a franchise that's just begging to be an international sensation. Developer Cygames has built it up to be one of the biggest mobile games in Japan, but outside of the country, it's nary a blip on the radar. That's g...

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...

E3 has come and gone, so today on Impulse, Sam from over at Infinite Backlog joined me in discussing our favorite moments and announcements! From Keanu Reeves' breathtaking announcement and involvement in Cyberpunk 2077 to Final Fantasy VI...

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...

I've watched two hours of Cyberpunk 2077 at this point -- a one-hour demo at E3 2018, and a one-hour demo at E3 2019. It's still impossibly cool. Here were our impressions from last year. Here's my takeaway this year: Keanu Reeves is j...