After years and years of Warcraft III (I'm so glad that game doesn't have a /played command) I've had plenty of time to assess which hero is my favorite. All of them have their own charm, but the Dreadlord (a role often times filled by...

I'm pretty good at Hitman. I've been playing the games ever since Hitman: Codename 47, a game so clunky that you had to love it in order to put up with its intolerable menu system and unrelenting control issues. The games have such an allur...

Of all the games I experienced at EGX 2018 in Birmingham, England this weekend, none had the simplicity of Nintendo's upcoming Pokémon: Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee. It's the kind of casual ease that could bring in a host of new play...

While virtual reality still feels gimmicky to me - perhaps as a child of the '90s who just remembers Dactyl Attack all to well - there's no denying it maintains an allure that pulls in the people, if not always the dollars. At EGX in Birmin...

When you go to any video game show, as many of you probably know, there can be an insane wait for the newer, more popular titles. I literally see eager fans queue up for two hours to play the latest Assassin's Creed or Call of Duty. When a ...

Crawling through the long grass, a bead of sweat trickles down my temple. Sweat, or blood? It's hard to tell the difference on an island such as this one. I'd bought my ticket to ride and now I was on the journey, stamped "paid in full" on ...

What can I really say about Undertale that hasn’t already been said? For me personally, having Undertale on another platform with a clean slate is already a huge advantage given the onset of guilt that comes from a certain garden pl...

This week I was able to get a behind the scenes look at the work Eugen Systems has been putting into their upcoming World War II strategy game Steel Division II. From the onset of the demo, when game director Alexis Le Dressay said that the...

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth gave us two beautiful new continents, an engaging high-stakes storyline, and some great instanced content. Where it falls short is with content that's new to the expansion: most notably Island Expeditio...

Battlefield V has been kicking my ass, and based on what I've seen of this week's open beta, I'm not alone. There's going to be a not-insignificant learning curve for players who don't prioritize team dynamics and really take their time. Th...

Bless Blizzard for they had sinned: it had been one year and three months since the launch of the last evil Diablo character in Heroes of the Storm.  That is until Mephisto, Lord of Hatred, entered the fray this week. Having taken him ...

It's rare that I get to cover a game twice in a pre-release state, but I'm happy I had the chance with Ashen, an action-RPG I first played at E3 last year and just saw again last weekend at PAX West. While the first impression was promising...

I can't really call Biomutant my biggest surprise of PAX because I once publicly said it "looks weird as hell and I'm really into it," and the Internet never forgets. But if it weren't for that article, it sure would be. It's strange, risky...

I'm not convinced Dying Light: Bad Blood will catch on in a significant way, but then again, it has a more manageable scale going for it as a 12-player mix of PvP and PvE survival, and people sure do love them some Dying Light. If nothing e...

We've seen some admirable attempts at asymmetric horror games, but none of them have quite clicked for me. There's still an opening for a studio to own this genre whether it's with licensed characters or original creations that draw inspira...

What little I've seen of Devil May Cry 5 is enough to tell me what we've come to expect: this game rules. It goes to show that if studios take time away and return to a series with a clear and creatively-recharged mind, great things can hap...

It sure is nice having a reason to genuinely care about Mega Man again. Fans have gone through countless ups and downs over the decades with core games, subseries, spin-offs, and questionable mobile adaptations. When Capcom hits the mark, M...

I haven't been able to pin down Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes. Truth be told, I'm still working on it. While it's a treat to see Grasshopper Manufacture return to this world and these characters, the Switch exclusive isn't the full n...

One of my favorite parts of covering expos is watching developers refine their games over the years, especially when it's smaller projects that blossom into something much more substantial. That's definitely the case with Super Meat Boy For...

Spelunky 2 is in good hands. That wasn't really a concern, but it's nice to have confirmed all the same. I took the opening hour of PAX as my chance to find the roguelike action-platformer sequel tucked away in the PlayStation booth and tri...

Left Alive's debut at last year's Tokyo Game Show was bewildering more than anything. The Front Mission franchise had been in hibernation since the misguided Front Mission Evolved, and in an era where many long-time franchises are retu...

Not every game developer hits it out of the park on its first try. Some take two, three, four, even ten attempts to find its place in the industry. Supermassive Games is one of those developers. Founded 10 years ago, the developer sort of m...

On the game shelf in my room, there exist some of the greatest video games of this generation. Titles like Nioh, Shadow of the Colossus, Gravity Rush 2, Uncharted 4, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for Switch,...

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...