You could deliver brawlers to me by the truckload on a weekly basis. They're like comfort food: both a reminder of a bygone era when they filled the arcades and my living room with joy. As I continue to harp on the importance of game preser...

There wasn't one particular reason why I put down Deck13's The Surge after a few sessions close to its 2017 launch: there were too many to count. As their sci-fi follow-up to Lords of the Fallen and their second foray into the "Souls" ...

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order is finally out, and there are a ton of great additions and glaring omissions when it comes to its roster. Amid some confusing messaging (and reader comments like "call me when [x] is in"), I ...

New datamining efforts from the retail edition of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 3 have unveiled new playable characters. I'm going to dance around a bit in this intro to create a buffer between the mild spoiler reveals in case you're going in b...

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 is a brawler at heart, but there's a few tricky bosses to navigate. Here's a few tips to help avoid that frustration.

There are a lot of superheroes in the Marvel universe, which means that the big get-togethers are going to naturally exclude someone's favorite. But, Marvel Ultimate Alliance is going to launch without some of the obvious names. Fortun...

[Update: A rep has reached out to clarify the situation. A physical edition will be available at GameStop, as well as a "separate physical version for PS4 exclusively through Special Reserve Games (available on their website, with no involv...

Darksiders III launched late last year without one of the series' staples. The Abyssal Armor, the most powerful gear set in both Darksiders and Darksiders II, was nowhere to be found in the third game. That's because Gunfire Game...

Torchlight II is a total blur to me at this point, and that means I'm liable to double-dip for the upcoming console ports. The enduring action-RPG will make its way to PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch in September with platform-exclusive ...

As mega-fans will tell you, any Monster Hunter game doesn't truly begin until you finish the "story" mode. Once you've cleared all the main missions in each game, then extra ranks and tougher challenges unlock and you start to get better ar...

Stranger Things 3: The Game is a note-for-note retelling of Stranger Things season three, released day and date with the popular Netflix series. If you haven't seen it, Stranger Things (the show) draws influence from sev...

I took one look at Blazing Chrome and was ready to play it. I spent countless hours engrossed in games like Metal Slug and Contra, and I just don't mean the classics, as more modern editions like Shattered Soldier and Hard Corps: Uprising a...

Red Dead Redemption 2 is a fantastic single-player video game and one of my personal favorites games from this generation. Red Dead Online, however, is maybe Rockstar's worst online component to date and I genuinely believe if it launched a...

A modern-day interpretation of ActRaiser feels like a gift straight from the heavens. The fondly remembered Super Nintendo classic was a novel concept back in the day, and all these years later, it still stands out. ActRaiser offered an int...

A neat surprise out of E3 was the news that Ubisoft would update Assassin's Creed Odyssey to add something called Story Creator Mode. This new tool allowed players to forge their own quests and make their own stories. Equipped with th...

We already knew that Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 was getting a season pass, but thanks to a new official listing, we have an idea of what that actually entails. Nintendo and Marvel have revealed the full schedule, with DLC 1 coming in the fa...

"What's the deal with Marvel's Avengers" is how Jordan started his gigantic E3 preview, and, informative as his write-up may be, it still seems like a perfectly valid question. E3 came and went, and the general populace saw hardly anything ...

I'm way too predictable with the games I cover, but I have no regrets. Bake 'n Switch looks super cute! It's a competitive and cooperative cooking action game about tossing dough around the battlefield. The developers used a lot of good bak...

During Inti Creates' panel at Anime Expo yesterday, the company revealed that Mighty Gunvolt Burst will be heading to PC (via Steam) on July 31, 2019. Retailing for $9.99, this new port will contain all three playable characters from the P...

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...

As announced at the Bandai Namco panel at Anime Expo LA, One Piece: Pirate Warriors is getting a fourth iteration. Somehow the undying anime series lives on (will we ever find out what the "One Piece" is, is it the friends we made alon...

Space Invaders: Invincible Collection, the upcoming arcade compilation from publisher Taito, will be releasing in Japan on March 26, 2020. Coming in standard (5,200 yen) and special edition (16,800 yen) variants, the title looks to contain ...

After spending a literal 24 hours with Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, I've come to the conclusion that it stands a very real chance of being one of my favorite games of 2019. I honestly didn't expect it! As much as I adore Iga's brand o...

[Update: Metal Wolf Chaos XD's August 6 launch date has also surfaced on Steam, and the listing shows a surprising bonus for pre-purchasing the game: a Half-Life-themed Lambda mech suit skin.] Before there was Souls, From Software was craft...

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne's monster list is slowly coming into focus, with Nargacuga, Tigrex, and Beotodus all making appearances. This week, Capcom showed off another returning favorite for the expansion: Barioth. We got our first loo...