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...

What's the deal with Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville? Where do I begin! The follow-up to PopCap's kooky team-based shooter series Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare isn't fully out yet – the launch is set for October 18 &...

Celeste originally released in January of 2018 to almost resounding critical praise, and today, its final batch of DLC is dropping in the form of Chapter 9. I’ve always considered myself pretty decent at twitch platformers, but these ...

God help me I've gotten back into The Sims this year. Sure it doesn't completely make up for a lack of regular Sim-verse games (can we get another SimAnt please?), but Sims 4 has come a long way since its launch, which includes oodles of DL...

Banjo Kazooie's entrance in Super Smash Bros. is more than justified. Not only did the duo grace the Nintendo 64 with one of its most iconic games, but in recent years, Microsoft has been playing nice with Nintendo to the point wh...

9/9/99 was a pretty special day. I distinctly remember going to my local EBX (an offshoot of Electronics Boutique, a GameStop division) to not only pick up a Dreamcast, but a copy of Final Fantasy VIII. And the thing is, while a new system ...

When I was first sold on Trine, all I needed to hear is that it was vaguely similar to The Lost Vikings. I sought it out that very day. Over time, the magic of Trine kind of waned a bit, and the dream almost came crashing down entirely...

I was there in the early days of World of Warcraft. It wasn't until Burning Crusade when I'd join a server-first guild and really live that WoW life you've heard so much about, but while I was focusing on my university studie...

Chicory: A Colorful Tale, which was originally introduced to the world as Drawdog, is the new game from the creator of Wandersong, and if the demo is any indication of its quality, holy shit, this is going to be an absolute blast. It's stil...