I wanted to start this piece with lede touching on how Chris Avellone is a titan of western game development, a man who has put out hit after hit to resounding success and acclaim. As I wrote that droning introduction I realized it was all ...

It's hard to imagine that the Undercity (below Lordaeron) and Teldrassil as we know them have been ransacked. Having played World of Warcraft since its beta I've created many additional characters (alts) in both locations, and witnessi...

Treyarch and Activision have announced, via Reddit, that the Private Beta for their upcoming military shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will run for a second consecutive weekend, also featuring some fresh new content.The previous beta, whic...

This weekend, Activision launched its first Private Beta for this year's entry in the gazillion dollar making Call of Duty series, Black Ops 4. A select few troops had the opportunity to check out the game's multiplayer modes, with hectic b...

The Gameboy Advance was my favorite system to play games on when I was younger. I still revisit the handheld every year...

We're in the middle of Summer, which mean the hype train is in full steam for this year's Call of Duty entry, Black Ops 4. A private beta is currently underway this weekend, allowing a chosen conglomerate of trigger-happy fans to try out th...

Iconoclasts on Switch is every bit as delightful as its previous releases. Nothing has been lost in translation, and the gameplay is as tight as ever. Outside of a few notable additions, two difficulty settings and a boss rush mode, this is...

I've been waiting for a priest, specifically of the shadow variety, since Heroes of the Storm was first announced. While Anduin, poised to reclaim the glory of the alliance in the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, seemed like the m...

Berlin, 2048. The world is fast running out of resources, patience and peace. A middle-aged man, Richard Nolan, wakes up in hospital following some sort of accident. After some preliminary tests he is sent home and crashes out in his inner-...

You could say that I embed myself in a wide array of action games, including the Batman: Arkham series. I tend to notice little nuances of combat as they evolve over time, and it's crazy to see just how much of an impact that the first Arkh...

Hospitals have always been a major part of my life. I was born with a rare skin disease that goes by many names but the one I've most heard it referred to as is Giant Congenital Nevus. In layman's terms, the disease is an over pigmentation ...

I know, I know: you're probably a member of a good portion of our audience who just isn't into VR. That's fine, I get it. But if you're a platforming purist and can somehow get your hands on a PSVR to test out Astro Bot: Rescue Mission when...

The original Bard's Tale trilogy was developed by Interplay and published by Electronic Arts in the mid-to-late '80s. Despite being hard as nails, that trilogy is generally seen as a hidden gem among classic RPGs. They had incredible music,...

Arena of Valor probably isn't the first game you think of when asked to name a MOBA. It only launched in North America back in December and most attention we've paid to it has been with its addition of characters from the DC Universe t...

NieR: Automata should've gotten far more end-of-year recognition than it did. But, it released in the same 12-month window as Zelda and Mario masterpieces, and that's that. All-time classics sometimes get overshadowed and bumped aside by ot...

My mind isn't completely made up yet, but after a couple hours with the Battlefield V closed alpha test, yeah, I'm feeling it. It was one thing to hear DICE talk about some of the big changes regarding squads, health and ammo, revives, and ...

I know what you may be thinking: "But digital foundry did a video showing how great Paladins ran!" You know what? You're right! They did their expert analysis and mentioned that it runs at a steady 60 frames per second in both docked and un...

Many an evening was spent crouched over my PC playing the original Descent. Back during an era where there typically weren't that many vehicular first-person games (even the updated version of Battlezone came three years later), Descent was...

Team Cherry has been stringing fans along with news of a Switch port for months now, but finally blew their load at this year’s E3 with a surprise release. Ever since I read Destructoid’s review of the game, where it was awarded...

Although I'm a horde member at heart (my first World of Warcraft character was an Orc Warlock during the beta, and my first 1.0 and subsequent main until Burning Crusade was an Orc Shaman), I gravitated toward the Alliance at the behest of ...

There hasn't been that much hype for the upcoming Mario Tennis Aces. Usually, Nin/tendo markets the living hell out of its big name titles, but this is just coming out in the Summer with little fanfare. That could be either a good or bad th...

While playing the new beta for The Crew 2, I transformed my monster-truck Mustang GT into a plane, flew to the top of a snow-capped mountain, then morphed into a speedboat and slid all the way down. Why? Well, why not? There's no shortage o...

When I reviewed I Hate Running Backwards, one of my biggest complaints was the uneven difficulty balance. Due to the procedural generation, certain levels could end up being dramatically harder than subsequent levels and restarting meant de...

Nearly four years. That's how long Hyrule Warriors has been out, and very few people have probably 100%-ed it. I don't blame them! While the core loop is fun and the roster is on point, upgrading every single hero and villain and obtaining ...

Today marks the release of Spire of Stars, Destiny 2's latest raid "lair," followed by the proper raid Leviathan, packed in the base game, and the micro-raid Eater of Worlds, released with the first disappointing Curse of Osiris D...

OnRush kind of crept up on me. Codemasters, possibly the king of racing publishers, is mostly known for its realistic simy racers with few exceptions. So when I saw the wild, screaming rainbow flavored OnRush, I didn't immediately put ...