We all know 2020 will go down as one of the worst years in history, especially American history. I don't want to dwell on that, instead I'd like to share an obnoxiously long list of games I played while the world burned. I played a to...

Announced in late October, Hivebusters is a piece of single player DLC that expands on the lore surrounding the trio of characters at the center of Gears 5's Escape mode. It's the classic story of a ragtag group coming together in the...

When the pandemic started, I thought I'd write my ass off. What else did I have to do? I figured I'd finally jump in full force instead of my usual dip of the toe. Instead, I've basically done nothing but pull my hair out and complete...

I love making lists. Once every few months I'll trim down my backlog and organize everything into an ordered list of games to cross off. This list has never lasted the month. I inevitably find some other game on sale or read an intere...

2019 was a year, that much I can say with certainty. Games came out, and people played them. I was one of these "people". One of the many who engaged with video games in the year of our lord 2019. My creator said that my opinions matt...

This may sound a bit hyperbolic, but Sayonara Wild Hearts feels like a true breath of fresh air in a year that I've found to be lacking in truly great experiences. Created by the primarily mobile game developer Simogo, Wild Hearts te...

As the credits started rolling on The Outer Worlds, I was left a little apathetic about the whole experience. Somewhere in the middle of the almost 40 hour experience, I hit a peak. The game was never entirely unenjoyable, but at a ce...

One of my favorite things to do these days is browse new release lists, keeping an eye out for hidden gems among the deluge of titles flooding the market every day. A couple months ago a small JRPG caught my eye. Made by a one man ind...

Gears of War is a series I love, the kind of love that you know isn't rational, but feels so right. My teenage years were so utterly dominated by Gears that I actually failed a semester of high school by staying home too many days per...

I believe the term "walking simulator" came into fashion after the release of Dear Esther, a game that has aged incredibly poorly but broke ground at the time by being a game about nothing. It felt refreshing to play a game that had n...

The pause button has pretty much been a ubiquitous feature in gaming since the medium evolved past it's arcade roots. Early gaming didn't have a pause menu because the games themselves were built for the arcade, a place where time is ...

I used to be a something of a fan of Dead rising back in the day. While I never quite got into the first game, the second was something special. Starting from the amazing Case Zero, I was hooked. Even the spin off game Off the Record was m...

After playing through and writing about the opening hours of Mass Effect: Andromeda a few days ago, I was tentatively excited to continue. I hadn't necessarily loved what I'd played up to that point, but I felt there was room for impr...

When Mass Effect: Andromeda first released back in 2017, it was fucked. There are no two ways around it. It was a buggy, ugly mess of a game. Backwards shooting guns, awful faces, terrible animations, broken cutscenes, crashes, etc. Y...

Kingdom Hearts 3 is an impressively bizarre product. On one hand, it's basically a bad Shonen anime. On the other hand, it's a virtual Disney simulator. 2 sides of the same coin, both vastly different yet still in a sort of harmony. S...

Got to level 55 and launched 3 nukes in Fallout 76. I pushed through despite the frustration and boredom because it's Fallout. That was a mistake. There is quite literally no endgame. After level 50 leveling up is meaningless as you ge...

I had it in my head this Halloween that I would replay my favorite Resident Evil games to sort of celebrate the season, but instead I opted to try something new. I told myself it would be good to branch out a bit instead of playing the...

When Ubisoft announced and then released Trials of the Blood Dragon during E3 a couple years back, I'll admit that I was intrigued at the prospect. I'd never really played a Trials game before, but I loved the time I spent with Far Cry...

I'm something of a latecomer to the world of Marvel vs. Capcom. I played MvC 2 a little bit when I was a kid but never with intention I just wanted to see the pretty colors pop on the screen. It wasn't until MvC 3 released that I reall...

Because the internet needs another opinion on Destiny 2!! Destiny had a rocky start when it launched in the fall of 2014. It was a bare bones product that hung it's hat on it's solid gameplay base. It didn't take long for many players ...

I remember watching trailers way back in 2008 and being blown away by the look of Mirror's Edge. Parkour, melee combat, shooting, and chase sequences all in one first person package. Not only did the gameplay show promise, but the look...

I've been hurt before. I think everyone knows the feeling, the weight of disappointment crushing all your hopes and dreams. Like Captain Ahab pursued his white whale, I too pursued something I could never hope to have. A great Sonic ga...

Wolfenstein got it's start as a stealth series on early computers before transitioning into it's most recognizable form in Wolfenstein 3D. After popularizing the first person shooter genre, the series releases became sporadic. Flash fo...

If I had played Gone Home when it released, I'm certain it would have been my game of the year in 2013. When I finally got around to playing it 2014, it blew me away. Gone Home was an experience unlike any other at the time. It was sti...

Watch Dogs was supposed to be the first "true" next generation game for PS4 and Xbox One. When it was announced way back in 2012, it was accompanied by a mind blowing trailer that ended up being not so representative of the final produ...

This is a spoiler warning!! When Bioshock Infinite first came out, it was heavily praised for it's storytelling and it's signature "Irrational" twist. Years later, the games flaws have been heavily examined by the gaming community, an...

Horror has to be the hardest genre to develop for. How many jump scares before the player stops caring? How long do you let the player wander before forcing down a path? How do you keep a player from breaking the immersion you so caref...

This is a spoiler warning!! Often derided as a throwaway B-team effort, World at War is basically the red-headed stepchild of the franchise. The game was put in the unenviable position of being the follow up to Modern Warfare, and goi...

When NetherRealm Studios announced their next game after MKX would be Injustice 2, nobody was surprised. The first Injustice was a huge hit, one that built upon the MK formula in key ways but took a few liberties of it's own. Back to b...

This is a spoiler warning!! About a month ago I finished a run through one of my all time favorite games, Mass Effect 2. To no ones surprise, it's still a damn masterpiece. It's not perfect, and their are plenty of things to nitpick, ...