Underrated combustion platformer Ms. Splosion Man is unexpectedly launching on Nintendo Swich next week on November 22. The sequel to that other underrated combustion platformer finds new life more than seven years after it first relea...

With Microsoft's X018 stream coming up soon, we're likely to find out a whole lot of information on the upcoming Crackdown 3. I suppose as an act of celebration, the original Crackdown is now free on the Xbox Live marketplace. As a reminder...

With some games, finishing the campaign is just the beginning. You can get the "ending," but is that really the end? For Payday 2, players have been searching for the past five years to unlock its super secret ending and the journey has now...

Dante's Inferno was quite a divisive game when it launched in 2010. Some people believed it spit on the legacy of a classic piece of literature and others were taken by how creatively weird Visceral's vision of hell was. It also copied the ...

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how incredible The Orange Box was? The bundle brought Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal to a lot of households that might not have otherwise played all three games. I never did send the garden ...

The Xbox One can run Crysis. It's a long-running meme in video games to ask if something can run Crysis, a game that was infamously resource-intensive when it released 11 years ago. Now, Xbox One has the opportunity to run Crysis --&nb...

Earlier this year, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker was made backward compatible for the Xbox One. While it was great to be able to play a Metal Gear game on Xbox One, it was odd how the rest of the HD Collection wasn't included. Whatever the...

I've been shouting about Overcooked for what feels like ages, so I'll keep this short. If you have an Xbox Live Gold subscription, an extra controller, and someone to play co-op games with, October is your chance to hop on one of the best m...

With the recent layoffs that happened at Telltale Games this past weekend, a bunch of former employees have been coming out with stories of being overworked, underpaid and seriously neglected. Each little bit that gets revealed shows an ugl...

Ken Levine has gone on record several times stating that he didn't like the way the climactic fight in BioShock turned out. Here's an example from as far back as 2011. This is not a new development. But Levine willingly ate crow again,...

Bandai Namco has announced a whole slew of information regarding Ace Combat 7. A lot of it is probably stuff you don't want to hear, though. I'll start with the good bit: the game is still on track for its January 18, 2019 console release d...

It should come as no surprise to anyone, but EA's Madden NFL series is massively popular. I guess hype for the latest entry, Madden 19, was at its highest as the game has come out to record-breaking sales. Not only was it the biggest launch...

The heavy metal world of Brütal Legend is worth remembering, and as of today, you won't need to put any strain on your mind trying to reminisce. Double Fine's 2009 action-adventure-meets-RTS game about Jack Black as a roadie in a gnarl...

More than four years after it first released, South Park: The Stick of Truth is finally swinging to what's presumably its final platform. Swinging like a certain pair of giant, hairy, flying testicles, that is. (Sorry, I couldn't resis...

Diablo III's Switch port (complete with Ganondorf in tow) will be releasing on November 2, 2018. Blizzard announced this via the official Diablo Twitter account and I couldn't be more excited. I haven't played any of the previous releases o...

Today is a Konami filled day for Xbox One owners. Two games have joined the ever-growing backward compatibility list and they both come from everyone's favorite pachinko developer. While not VR enabled or freshly redone, the Zone of the End...

Just last week, THQ Nordic revealed that it had acquired the IP rights to Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. Fans of the game were excited since this could have meant a couple of things. A sequel to the game that never got a chance or a remaste...

THQ Nordic has announced, today, that it acquired the IP rights to 38 Studios' Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. While not specifying which assets came along with it, this could mean the game will now receive a remaster in the future. Since I ...

If you've always been curious about Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, but have feared getting destroyed online, Valve has got a solution for you. Released just this week, a brand new "Free Edition" of CS:GO allows users to jump into offline...

Yacht Club Games has announced that one final game will be coming to Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove. Dubbed Showdown, the game is a competitive multiplayer brawler that lets players pick their favorite characters from Shovel Knight and smack...

For years now, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been the most requested game for Xbox One's backward compatibility service. Despite making last-gen ports of Xbox One Call of Duty games playable, Modern Warfare 2 seemed to elude the servic...

It has been a long while since Microsoft's "Games with Gold" problem had such a lackluster month. While I wouldn't single out any game in this selection as bad, you likely already own each of these titles. What are the chances that there is...

"No Gods or Kings. Only man." The banner that hung in the atrium of the bathysphere terminus where BioShock's protagonist began his adventure was the first thing to grab my attention and pull me into that world. I first played BioShock...

Deep Silver is bringing the batshit-insane open-world crime title Saints Row: The Third to Nintendo Switch. The publisher announced the news this morning at Gamescom in Cologne.Saints Row: The Third, which originally launched on PS3, PC and...

When Forza Horizon 2 was announced as a freebie for "Games with Gold" this month, many people speculated that the game would be reaching its "End of Life" status. This happened two years prior to its predecessor, so it only made sense. Turn...