Arthur Morgan plays a role much larger than he knows. His actions set a momentous pace for the player; every step forward becomes a considerable time investment. Arthur’s journey in Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2) begins and ends ...

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...

Fans of Stoic Studios' Banner Saga will have reason to step back into the beautifully animated and unforgivably tough fantasy world next week. An update to The Banner Saga 3 will add a new mode for all your sword and shield smashing shenani...

This contest is only a flesh wound: Win a copy of Knights of Pen and Paper 2! I'm not a knight, but if I were, I'd probably use a cool weapon. Not a sword, because all knights use swords. Maybe something more like a fishing rod with a flame...

Those delightful retro-enthusiasts at Hamster have brought something a little different to the table for this week's Arcade Archive re-releases. From the mid-90s, Twinkle Star Sprites is a very colourful and cute anime shmup that might appe...

Here's a funny thing about covering games: you either play a lot of them or you don't play enough of them and either way, everything blurs together. Every week, dozens -- if not hundreds -- of new games come out. Most of them aren't anythin...

Blizzard has begun sharing the latest batch of Overwatch character skins ahead of next week's Winter Wonderland event. I was hoping we'd see creative festive designs. So far, the results are mixed. The first skin, Sugar Plum Fairy Mercy, is...

Four years ago, I was in dire straits as a Wii U owner. The console was flopping, Nintendo couldn't move units, and developers who all seemed to be on board at the beginning were nowhere to be seen. Many, many quality experiences passed me ...

Anthem is still a few months away and it's just as well. I'm ready for the low key Smash-filled holidays, not a massive MMO-adjacent looter shooter at the moment, so February 22 is fine by me. BioWare and EA want to remind you that it exist...

Capcom is going all-in with Devil May Cry 5 now that it's just a few months away from launch. You can play it today on Xbox One with a platform-exclusive demo, and "V," the previously super-secret character is now fully revealed with h...

Bandai Namco has dropped a new trailer for their upcoming re-release of the 2008 anime RPG Tales of Vesperia. This new promo clip for the Definitive Edition focuses on the systems that are used in battle, as well as stat and gear management...

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...

At last night's Game Awards, the giant-slaying Monster Hunter: World deservedly earned the Best Role-Playing Game award, which was collected by the producer of the Capcom juggernaut title, Ryozo Tsujimoto.Tsujimoto also took time to make no...

My eyes are all melty and I'm dying to dig into Smash Ultimate, but let's take a moment to recap the major video game news from The Game Awards 2018. There were some genuinely surprising moments. For instance: a new Marvel Ultimate Alliance...

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 ...

Here's one of the, ahem, stranger things to come out of The Game Awards 2018. There's a video game tie-in to the upcoming third season. The awkwardly-titled Stranger Things 3: The Game is a 16-bit adaption that follows the events...

I don't mean to alarm you, but Raiden just made Scorpion's head explode in front of a live studio audience. Ed Boon brought the sufficiently gory debut trailer for Mortal Kombat 11 to The Game Awards, along with a fast-approaching release d...

The next trailer to drop at the Game Awards was our best look at Psychonauts 2 yet. The trailer opens with a voiceover talking about how Rasputin managed to worm his way into the Psychonauts before welcoming him to their base of operations,...

BioWare's Casey Hudson hopped on stage early into The Game Awards to talk about... Anthem. Yes, Anthem. The studio's loot-driven sci-fi shooter with RPG elements that's launching in February. But fans of a certain other BioWare property -- ...

Studio Wildcard, the developer behind dino survival game ARK: Survival Evolved, is at it again. Except it's drastically upping the stakes this time. At The Game Awards 2018, Studio Wildcard revealed Atlas. It's another survival MMO -- but ...

PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds next map goes live on the PC test server tonight. The new 6x6 map is called Vikendi, and as we've known for a while, it's a snow covered region. As far as new features go a new snowmobile vehicle will ...

Finally, after weeks of teasing, Obsidian Entertainment has revealed its new RPG. Just as those trademarks earlier this year suggested, it's called The Outer Worlds. This is the first look at The Outer Worlds. It's a first-person RPG that ...

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...

Dead by Daylight is set to receive some brand new content soon. "Chapter 10: Darkness Among Us" will be launching next week on December 11 for PC, PS4 and Xbox One. For the first time in the game, the new killer is actually a human. The tri...

Hey, if you intend to ever play Far Cry 5, I hope you already beat it. Ubisoft dropped a spoiler bomb on-stage at The Game Awards, but the developer's hand was kind of forced. The next game in the series, Far Cry: New Dawn, picks up where F...