I've had the good fortune of testing just about every facet of consumer-side VR in the past four years. Not only have I donned every major headset, but I've also embarked upon numerous VR experiences, like the ambitious room scale eigh...

[Check out our previous Smash Ultimate DLC coverage: Piranha Plant, Joker, Hero, Banjo, Terry.] Look, I understand that people are mad that yet another Fire Emblem character is coming to Smash Ultimate: as...

The upcoming Disintegration is often compared to Destiny, and from a visual perspective, I do see it. But after playing through the closed technical beta that just kicked off today, the comparisons really stop there.

As a heavy digital card game player, I've seen many projects rise and fall. Every IP in existence from Fable to Elder Scrolls to DOTA can get a card game these days, and in the face of adversity (read: mostly Hearthstone...

Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE was easily my favourite game on the Wii U. It felt like a playful if unorthodox celebration of two beloved IPs: Shin Megami Tensei and Fire Emblem. Sporting vibrant art direction and some of the most satisfyin...

Portable gaming is one of my biggest sub-hobbies in this massive sea of an industry. There's something about grabbing a box and playing it wherever you want that just feels so freeing: an instant omnipresent state of nirvana. While my porta...

Yesterday, Planet Zoo got the first of surely many DLC packs to come. This first paid add-on – the Arctic Pack – makes a great impression up front. There's just one problem: it's over before you know it. Fans have been clamoring...

If you've been following my personal Game of the Year picks these past few years, you're probably aware that I'm a big fan of the Lord of the Rings Living Card Game (LCG). Although I do enjoy my Magic: Arena, I've cooled it a bit in th...

SNK is an interesting company. For years they dominated the arcade and home fighting game scene, pumping out IP after successful IP. Then all of a sudden, Konami style, they kind of just stopped doing it. Now the publisher is back in busine...

Last weekend, after spending entirely too long sifting through filler on the Nintendo Switch eShop to try and turn up another afternoon co-op game, I found it: Wilmot's Warehouse, an ingenious little creation. It's a video game about an eve...

I've been playing Heroes of the Storm for over four years now. There are very few games that manage to keep me captivated that long, but alas, the Heroes team managed to grab me where so many other MOBAs haven't. While others chase DOTA's f...

Civilization VI tore onto the scene in 2016, and gave us the first mainline Civ in six years. We need way more simulation games in our lives right now, so I was more than happy to receive it, despite some issues and downgrades compared to p...

[Check out our previous Smash Ultimate DLC coverage: Piranha Plant, Joker, Hero, Banjo.] "Is Smash Bros. a fighter?" has been the "are games art?" of the last 20 years or so, but when we're at the point where Smash is headlin...

Stop me if you've done this before: you're playing your favorite card (or otherwise rank-based game), hit up your standard few matches for rewards, keep your ranking stable, then log off. It's a problem for both the publisher and the player...

There was a period of time where my life was just one Red Dead Redemption 2 blur. I can't say the same for Red Dead Online (yet), but the campaign enamored me and kept its tendrils in for weeks on end. It isn't often that I truly ...

In today's episode of Impulse, I'm joined once again by my good friend Sam Mui from over at Infinite Backlog to discuss what we took away from the Watch Dogs: Legion developer panel and demo that was showcased at EGLX 2019. From delving in...

Don't look at me like that. Game writers are legally required to use that picture when writing about this game. My hands are tied. It's the law. That's not what you're here for though. You want to know whether the Switch version of The...

Microsoft has been making huge strides this generation and a lot of people haven't noticed. Look, I get that we shouldn't forget the initial draconian DRM reveal for the Xbox One. But when people were excited to find out that Sony is focusi...

Even though it's not a fully VR game per se, Trover Saves the Universe kind of flew under the radar when it was released earlier this year. Naturally Rick & Morty fans gravitated toward it, because it could easily exist as a spinoff in ...

No Man's Sky is a game that I hold in high regard now lately for a lot of reasons. However, back when I originally reviewed the game for a channel me and my friends started I absolutely tore into it for all the numerous and very obvious is...

Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age (DQXI) was one of my favorite titles from last year, a gorgeous throwback to earlier games in the long-running RPG franchise. That said, the version we got here in the West was somewhat compromised ...

I skipped the NES gamepads for Nintendo Switch, but those new SNES controllers? I couldn't resist! If you were lucky enough to place an order in time (not only are quantities limited, but you also need to be a Nintendo Switch Online subscri...

I forgot just how absorbing Puzzle Quest can be when it's done right. A few battles here, a few spell upgrades there, and next thing you know, you've been matching color-coded tiles for hours on end. After a few missteps, the once-beloved m...

It's been a good year since I last set foot inside a Call of Duty multiplayer mode. While I'm no stranger to Activision's immensely popular shooter series, a lot of my recent down-the-barrel action has been confined to Ubisoft's tactical sh...

For a little over a decade now, Zen Studios has been perfecting its craft at making pinball games. Starting with Pinball FX on Xbox 360 all the way back in 2007, the studio has seemingly not stopped finding ways to adapt different propertie...