Within seconds, Arise: A Simple Story begins with your death. There's nothing simple about it, from a narrative standpoint.

Kingdom Hearts fans waiting for more info on upcoming DLC "ReMIND" were surprised to find a brand new trailer floating around the internet without fanfare. It appeared to be a surprise to publisher Square Enix too, who swiftly removed the v...

It feels like a small miracle that Saber Interactive was able to port The Witcher 3 to Switch. CD Projekt's best game thus far is huge, beautifully detailed, and full of fast combat. There were some technical hiccups on PS4 and Xbox On...

Everyone has their preferences when it comes to what makes a great Battlefield map, but I think we can all come together to agree on one conclusion: Wake Island slaps. It's an all-time great. Iconic, even! After months of meandering, Battle...

Stygian Zinogre isn't the only beast lurking in the new title update for Monster Hunter World: Iceborne. There's also a bigger, badder threat – the full-grown adult form of Xeno'jiiva, also known as Safi'jiiva. Capcom previously tease...

Evolution is beautiful, staggering, and uncaring. So too is Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, a survival-adventure game that rewinds the clock 10 million years to shine a light on the plights of early hominids. It's one of those video games...

The roster of NetherRealm Studios' Mortal Kombat 11 almost matches up with the roster of the original Mortal Kombat games, save for a few omissions. The gory fighting franchise sure has changed a lot since those digitised days of the early ...

Interstellar twin-stick shooter XenoRaptor, already available on PC via Steam, will be headed to PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch this month. An energetic trailer was released by publisher Digerati to announce the console ports.Developed b...

Fallout 76, offer true solo experiences, for a series that is predicated on true solo experiences? Highly unlikely, but okay! Amid a free trial and double XP weekend (it starts on December 12 at 11AM ET and goes to December 16 at 12PM ET), ...

Bungie is gearing up for the "Season of Dawn" era of content in Destiny 2, which will run throughout March 9 and will bring plenty of solar subclass reworks. But lots of stuff is happening in Season of Dawn beyond that, and Bungie just brok...

Big risk, big reward. That's a saying that's usually associated with some sort of gamble, but it has extra oomph here. You're going to rip off the place where people gamble, Ocean's 11 on the oceanside. On December 12, GTA Online ...

Gearbox keeps adding to Borderlands 3, and that means players keep finding new ways to break the game. It's a never-ending source of amusement when it comes to the list of weekly hotfixes. The happiest accident this week is that players fig...

IO Interactive has revealed Hitman 2's content plans for the Holiday season. The coming weeks will see the return of disguises, missions, events and even weapons that all feature a dash of Christmas cheer.From today through December 20, the...

Bungie is aiming to have Destiny 2's Shadowkeep expansion continue to occupy players throughout 2020, with a "seasonal" content drop schedule. Shadowkeep's first season is nearly over, and now the "Season of Dawn" will kick off on...

A Plague Tale: Innocence is one of my favourite games of the year. And I'm hoping it receives the chatter it deserves over the next few weeks - as the industry at large focuses on the Resident Evil 2s and Death Strandings of the world. Rega...

Every so often I'll come across a work of art that looks like it was ripped straight out of the game world, and I got that feeling the second I saw this Borderlands 3 Dahl crate from Press X Props. Using a Pelican Case as a base, ...

Remember that Dark Crystal game? We sort of heard about it at E3 this year and that it would have a vague "2019" release date, but like many of those projects that drift into December with a looming window, it's been pushed into 2020. ...

[Update: It has since been noted that the original Bayonetta is also up for the 4K remaster treatment. Both Bayonetta and Vanquish will be available to purchase separately, or together in a special 10th Anniversary Bundle.]A listing - appea...

Gwent is one of the better free-to-play card games in an ever-growing sea of them, but to quote John Darnielle, "good things never last, bad things never die." This coming Monday, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of Gwent will cease ...

What to play, what to play. If you're anything like me, you could go in a bunch of different directions right now but a single game has been hogging all of your time. That said, I'm always thinking about what's next, and while the release s...

[You can read reviews for past episodes here: Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4.] Pangs of guilt washed over me in the final moments of Life is Strange 2. I saw the conclusion to this story -- this long, strange, for...

Dead Cells has been super generous with free updates, and that post-launch support is not coming to an end anytime soon. Evil Empire is planning to continue releasing updates "at the same steady rhythm and of the same quality as seen in 201...

Darksiders is a wild series. On one hand, you know most of the cast of those games wear Jack Skellington sweatshirts as loungewear. On the other, they also star in pretty fun action-adventure romps. You take the good, you take the bad....

This is it. This is the last time we're talking about Dark Souls. This decade. Got ya!

If you're one of the multi-million members of the Rainbow Six Siege playerbase, then you better start protecting your dome, as the final season of 2019, Operation Shifting Tides, is now live on all formats, bringing with it one of - if not ...