Assassin's Creed Odyssey's first piece of paid DLC is both a departure and a comfort food. As add-ons tend to go, Legacy of the First Blade's Hunted chapter recycles all the core systems from the original game. It falls right into that...

As soon as I heard "Devil Trigger" after Devil May Cry 5's E3 reveal I rushed to grab the single. This one? Not so much, but it's nice to know that music is still very much a part of the fabric of the DMC universe. The song "Crims...

Amidst the cavalcade of announcements during the Kinda Funny Games Showcase was a quick trailer for Tunche. A 2D beat-em-up/RPG hybrid, the game has a really fetching art style and looks to have some form of co-op support. As I did a little...

[Update: The main man behind Yakuza's localization, Scott Strichart, confirmed on Twitter that Judgment will not only contain dual audio, but dual subtitles. What this means is that the English dub will have a set of subtitles specific to i...

Kid Icarus: Uprising is one of the most fun games I've ever played. Sure it was unwieldy, especially with the default control scheme, but it was ambitious as hell and basically a playable Saturday morning cartoon. It was worth it. Its direc...

Square Enix seems constantly skittish of how Tomb Raider performs in any given year. It's strange: the first one was a success by almost any studio's metric, but the "disappointing" multi-million hit bred a meme out of the company's melanch...

Bethesda promised us a new Rage 2 trailer for The Game Awards 2018, and it certainly delivered. This two-minute trailer is a virtual flyby of what seems to be the entire Rage 2 map. Surprise! There's insane shit happening in all ...

There aren't a lot of alternatives to Monster Hunter, but Phoenix Labs is really trying to provide one with Dauntless. Currently it's just in beta form on PC, but that's going to change as of tonight's Game Awards announcement. Dauntless&nb...

We're only 15 minutes in, and The Game Awards 2018 is already bringing the heat. Marvel has resurrected a long-gone comic book action-RPG series: Marvel Ultimate Alliance. The third of these games is coming next year, Marvel Ultimate Allia...

Earlier this week Rockstar noted that the Red Dead Online's economy "wasn't right," after an outcry of fans denounced its extreme efforts of over-monetization. Well today the studio is pushing out the first biggest patch for RDO (still in b...

Although today was supposed to see the multi-platform launch of cutesy vengeance quest Battle Princess Madelyn, it has unfortunately been announced by developer Casual Bit Games that the PS4 and Nintendo Switch platforms are delayed until D...

I'm looking forward to the dread that will wash over and paralyze me when I run into the towering Mr. X in Resident Evil 2. Unstoppable stalking enemies are a staple of horror games, but that's not to say I'll ever be accustomed to dealing ...

Having to crack your hard drive open for 50GB games and 50GB patches (hello Fallout 76) sucks. But every so often you're gifted a reasonable file size, and that's what Capcom is seemingly doing with the upcoming Resident Evil 2 remake....

Traditionally, Assassin's Creed and Nintendo platforms haven't really gotten along. Ubisoft brought Assassin's Creed III and Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag to Wii U, but wound down support after weak sales. To be fair, most ...

One of the main criticisms of Red Dead Online is also the most expected: the in-game economy and sense of progression are out of whack. Right now, things feel hopelessly grindy. Even basic purchases like horse insurance are overpriced. Comi...

Leading up to this Thursday's Game Awards in Los Angeles, there are two types of speculative stories coming out. There is "Some game is probably getting announced there," which is the case with a new Alien title. And there is "This gam...

Animus: Stand Alone, an Android and iOS release from late last year, has done fairly well for Korean developer Tenbirds Corporation, and now it's ready to spread its wings on other platforms. Billed as an homage to "punishing, albeit reward...

Darksiders has always felt like it belonged on the fringe. The whole "edgy Zelda" mask it wears so fondly was a major turnoff for some, but I bought right into it. Maybe it was Mark Hamill's devilish turn as The Watcher that really dre...

Red Dead Online has arrived and for today's episode of Impulse, I sat down with Sam Mui from Infinite Backlog to share our first impressions from the beta! So far, it seems like a brilliant combination of the free-roam insanity found in Gr...

Enjoy your short break from contests? Well don't get too used to it: Win a Switch key for Demon's Crystals. Do you like bullets flying all over your screen? Spells to help incapacitate your enemies? Cute chibi-lite/anime aesthetics? Yes, yo...

I found myself thinking about Chinese Democracy a lot as I slogged through Fallout 76. Remember Chinese Democracy? It was that long-awaited Guns n' Roses album that many assumed would never actually release. Years after the heyday of G...

I'm less and less sure what to expect of Bloodstained, but I continue to hope for the best next year. Today's news doesn't necessarily alleviate my uncertainty. In a message to Kickstarter backers, designer Koji Igarashi announced that Shan...

Sony has announced the PS Plus free games line-up for December and it surprisingly isn't a total wash. While SOMA is a few years old at this point, offroad racer Onrush only launched around six months ago. If you happen to have a Vita, as w...

It's been a wonderful year for metroidvania fans, but one game I had particularly high expectations for was Guacamelee 2. It delivered. The story, the co-op brawling, the tricky but fair platforming challenges, the humor, the art direction ...

One of the changes at the top of the mind for nearly every Fallout 76 player is an increase to stash size. Your personal stash is the one safe place in Fallout 76. Putting items in there means they (theoretically) won't disappear. That...