Anodyne launched some five years ago on PC to a decent enough reception. Fans were hungry for more Zelda-like experiences and developer Analgesic Productions was happy to oblige. While I didn't personally like it (I'm a huge Zelda nut), Ano...

While watching one of the Indiana Jones films, have you ever stopped to think how unlikely it is that Indy succeeds all the time? What are the chances he knows exactly which items to use in remote locations around the world at the exact rig...

Despite what the name says, cells are actually the lifeblood of Dead Cells. They're the only way to permanently upgrade your character -- little by little, and level by level. Escaping each stage comes with a few different waves of relief: ...

The time has come for Monster Hunter Generations to spread its wings off of the 3DS and out of Japan. Those two things are mighty specific, but Japan has been sitting on the Switch version of Generations -- an HD port as it were -- for roug...

While the hype for Fallout 76 has reinvigorated interest in Bethesda's post-apocalyptic franchise, the news has had the unfortunate side effect of eclipsing some of the best mods...

Despite owning three versions of Dark Souls, it feels inevitable that I'll pick up the Nintendo Switch port at some point. It's one of those rare games I can always return to and learn something new about. Had Dark Souls Remastered made it ...

Team Cherry is gearing up to close the book on Hollow Knight with a free DLC: and that's still happening, just slightly differently. The developer notes that the name has changed to something "100 times cooler," mainly due to avoid conflict...

I really miss the days of the side-scrolling run-and-gun shooter. It's such a fun and cathartic genre, and I'm shocked that not every game allows you to run around like a lunatic blasting fools left and right. Let's give out a nice, chaotic...

Before rebooting the entire series with 2013's Tomb Raider, developer Crystal Dynamics decided to take the series in a more modern direction with 2006's Tomb Raider: Legend. Basically setting the groundwork for Naughty Dog's popular Unchart...

While I still have a few secret levels to master in Overcooked 2, my time has pretty much come to an end. I was planning on revisiting the co-op cooking action title again sooner than later since it's the type of game that feels fresh when...

The hits keep coming from Sega CCO Toshihiro Nagoshi, who opened up to Edge Magazine about several major moments in Sega history. In this instance he shares some inside info on the Yakuza series: it was actually pitched to Microsoft and Nin...

Monster Hunter: World has proven mighty popular on Steam. It's one of the most-played games on the platform right now, with hundreds of thousands of concurrent players hunting the good hunt. That said, the PC port is not without growing pai...

Everything about La-Mulana and its sequel is cryptic. This unintuitive, tough-as-hell, completely unforgiving action adventure series is renowned for the way it terrorizes players with death after death. That cryptic nature appare...

Early into the one-minute gameplay launch trailer for Spider-Man, a costume-clad Peter Parker urges a local youth to "leave the fighting to the pros." Most of the rest of the 60 seconds are spent with Spider-Man clashing against the likes ...

We're starting to crawl out of the era where everything just hits "PC, PS4, and Xbox One." Thanks to studios like Panic Button the process of porting big-name games to Switch has been expedited, and some publishers are just doing the work t...

One of the many facets of art direction I’ve come to greatly appreciate in this generation of gaming is that of the vista. I simply love a good vista, the moments where a break in the action gives players the opportunity to gawk at th...

Certain genres are perfect for mindless time-killing as you cleanse your pallet between deeper games. They don't have to be perfect -- they just have to be functional, and moreover, fun. You have expectations going in, adjust accordingly, a...

I've been playing Dead Cells in early access for over a year now, but I never want to get too far if you know what I mean. I have a weird relationship with early access games in that unless I'm covering them professionally, I pref...

I may have bounced off Let it Die when the going got tough, but I do love the game's skateboarding grim reaper Uncle Death and hope he sticks around. In a short but sweet announcement picked up by GameSpot, GungHo Online Entertainment annou...

With Dead Cells dominating my late-night gaming sessions this whole week, I've been thinking a lot about Risk of Rain and how I'd like to clone myself so I can play both games at once. They might not seem that similar on the surface, but th...

Games these days, am I right? It's all downloads and teraflops and megawatts and gigabytes. What happened to the good old days when you could buy a game at a store, read the instruction manual on the way home, pop it into your console, and ...

Monster Hunter: World's PC port hasn't even been out a full day and it is already breaking records. While Capcom hasn't officially unveiled sales figures for the series' PC debut, a cursory look at Steamcharts.com reveals a concurrent playe...

We weren't sure what to make of The Missing, an upcoming action-adventure game from Swery's studio White Owls and publisher Arc System Works, but now it's starting to materialize. Key word: starting. A new teaser website has surfaced with t...

Death can come at any time in Dead Cells, especially early on. A superb run can be derailed by something as simple as a feisty elite enemy that you probably shouldn't have engaged. Experience and familiarity are crucial parts of the learnin...

The splendid run-and-gun game Cuphead continues to sell well and every time we hear about a new sales milestone, I feel reassured. It's wonderful to know that this type of game can be embraced at this level. The latest word: Cuphead has sur...

Responding to fan concerns about the frame rate and performance of Dead Cells on Nintendo Switch, developer Motion Twin has said that those types of improvements are its "main priority as of now." In a lengthy and candid response posted to ...