We're far removed from the whole "Assassin's Creed is bad" mantra. Origins rocked it then Assassin's Creed Odyssey rekindled that fire; and with the series taking a year off in 2019, it looks like Ubisoft isn't ready to ruin ...

Shade, shade all around. With the strong rumor floating about that Crash Team Racing is the next Crash remake project, I've seen a number of "yeah but it's not as good as Mario Kart" sentiments. As my photographic memory flashes b...

Darksiders really took me by surprise back in 2010. It kind of just...came out compliments of the now-dead Vigil Games, some of whom moved on to various studios including Gunfire, who are working on the third entry. Though many call it...

After hitting exalted with nearly every new reputation on both the Horde and Alliance sides in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, I've turned my attention to alts and race changes by way of the Allied Race system: a new concept introduc...

In a discussion yesterday about elementary school kids who use their 3DS as their primary music player, I got swept up in a gale of nostalgia. For many of those kids that was their first system: a multifaceted device that could really, do a...

Every World of Warcraft player, new or old, has a favorite era. Whether it was the one they played first or the one right before they left: there are a lot of individual, personal stories that were born out of this 14 year old phenomen...

As I've opined many times these past few weeks, it's hard to believe that the World of Warcraft character I started (an Orc Shaman) over a decade ago is still alive and well within the data centers of Blizzard. I've played through ever...

Expectations were sky high when the original No Man's Sky hit: precisely because Hello Games put them there. I enjoyed several aspects of the 1.0 release, treating it like a low key chill space sim -- but a lot of it didn't resonate wi...

I'm sitting here week after week, taking in Robot Master boss reveals for Mega Man 11 like they're big-ticket Super Smash Bros. fighter announcements. I know I'm basically alone in my bliss, but the excitement behind the reveals brough...

As someone who used to make .wad maps of Duke Nukem 3D back in the day, I'm extremely thankful for mods. One of the most insane revolutions that I witnessed as an '80s kid was watching entire online communities disappear as publishers ...

"Man, Final Fantasy VII, that game rocked!" is a phrase I hear often from people who no longer touch video games. It was far from the best in the series but it's a cultural touchstone, and one I like breaking down all these years later. It ...

[Update: Wow I did not expect this turnout! I've placed a poll below with several of the most popular answers to settle this (out of Smash) once and for all.] I have some really fond memories of Soulcalibur, starting from the very first gam...

I've been talking to a few friends quite a bit about the recent Switch release of Ikargua. It was kind of a turning point for the genre when it was released worldwide in 2003 on the GameCube, as it brought Treasure to the forefront in the w...

Nintendo seemingly is willing to try new things with the Star Fox franchise. While it started off as a vehicular rail shooter it eventually branched off with action adventure and tower defense spinoffs. According to a crazy rumor, Nintendo ...

It's another amazing week for the PlayStation 4, as Sony's God of War and Sega's Yakuza 6 are being unleashed into the world. God of War takes it critically but Yakuza 6, which brings an end to the memorable Kiryu's tale, also has a ton of ...

Well, it happened -- Morrowind is coming to the Xbox One by way of backward compatibility. No longer do I need to rely on my fished-out original Xbox to play the console version of the game (as I often do along with Jet Set Radio Future), a...

When I asked the community what they wanted from the future of Overwatch, I got some pretty unexpected and thoughtful responses. I mostly just mused on how we could use more baddies/Talon members on the roster, but a few of you had som...

[Image] After its initial launch, Blizzard has gone into overdrive to address the support meta in Overwatch with its add-on cast members. While we started with the offense-minded Ana, we eventually got Sombra, Moira, and Brigitte (on top of...

We have reached the point in Dragon Ball FighterZ's lifecycle where a lot of the casual crowd is dropping off of regular play. Now FighterZ could very well be the most-played fighter right now in terms of sheer numbers, but people move...

Whether you realize it or not, new shoot 'em ups are being released all the time on the PC, PS4, and most recently, the Nintendo Switch. While some genres have waxed and waned over the years or have been relegated to niche communities, shmu...

When Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition hits the Switch, I'll be going back through its giant adventure mode map all over again. But now we get to do it with all the DLC intact, as well as a handful of new costumes. If you missed all ...

According to Eiji Aonuma, work on the next Legend of Zelda game is already happening. I mean we could have predicted it given that this is one of their most successful series outside of Mario, but given that Nintendo doesn't rush these thin...

The dust has settled, and people still like Mario Odyssey. It's one of the best-reviewed games of all time, and pretty much every anecdotal tale I've heard has been positive. Also, it's the fastest-selling Mario to date -- yeah, there'...

Skyrim is that game that just won't die. Not that I'm bitter that Bethesda didn't choose Morrowind for that task or anything (man, if only we could get a remaster of that every generation; I want to live in an HD Balmora!), but it...

With the advent of the Switch 4.0 update that allows limited 30-second videos for select games, it really got me thinking -- what does the Switch need? I mean, there's a lot of ancillary stuff that Nintendo could do to catch up to other con...