Cosmo's Quickstop was certainly one of the more manic games I played on the PAX East floor, and in a good way. As the newest employee of an interstellar gas station, my job was to multi-task across customer needs including pumping spaceship...

I've been following Falcon Age for some time ever since its bird GIFs on Twitter started making the rounds, boasting an adorable baby bird bouncing around and wearing miniature hats atop a gloved hand. I was certainly not disappointed ...

This weekend at PAX East, SNK revealed an all-new character headed toward their upcoming Samurai Shodown sequel. She looks amazing. Representing the first of three newcomers, Darli Dagger is a seafaring sailor armed with a ridiculously huge...

While visiting Headup Games' booth at PAX East this weekend, the first thing about their new title Dead End Job was its very iconic art style. If a game looks like The Ren & Stimpy Show, then it already has my attention.  To be com...

Indie, roguelike, and pixel-art. These three buzzwords have been increasingly prevalent in recent years. After the immense success of The Binding of Isaac, everyone and their mother started to jump on the roguelike bandwagon. Edmund McMille...

As my weekend at PAX continues, I dropped by the Square Enix booth to check out Dragon Quest Builders 2. The sequel to the crafting/action game set within the world of Dragon Quest.   The demo I played showed off the game's first 20 mi...

The JRPG genre and the Nintendo Switch are a match made in heaven. JRPGs are often incredibly long adventures, so not being tethered to a television can make dedicating time to one a whole lot easier. It helps that you can suspend your Swit...

When it comes to niche genres, they don't get much smaller than the "games featuring Winona Ryder" subsection of your local mom-and-pop video store. Other than a few small roles in various Beetlejuice games from the 1990s, she's basically a...

id Software's Rage was a bit of a mixed bag back when it released nearly a decade ago. Trying its damnedest to combine a bunch of different genres together, it felt nothing like id's back catalog, while lacking a clear identity of its own. ...

The arcade beat-em-up genre was very strong in the '80s and '90s. Enter any arcade and you were bound to find at least 10 machines from different developers all in a row. Golden Axe, Ninja Gaiden, Final Fight, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...

VA-11 Hall-A was quite the surprise when it released a few years back. Visual novels aren't new by any means, but this plucky little title combined a cyberpunk aesthetic with a very introspective story that made for some gripping drama. The...

Bandai Namco invited me by its PAX East booth to get a look at Double Fine's upcoming action rogue-like Rad. The top-down action game has you pummeling mutants for survival in a randomly generated world that has succumbed to not one but two...

As I've grown older in age, I've developed an appreciation for minimalist puzzle games. There's something so appealing about playing a title that cuts out all of the excesses of the triple-A market and hones in on the mechanics that carry...

One of my first stops at PAX East 2019 was checking out Pixelated Milk's tactical WWII game, Warsaw, due out on PC, PlayStation 4, and Switch later this year. Set in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, you play out the days of the Warsaw uprisi...

Before Wrath: Aeon of Ruin was announced, Destructoid's CJ had teased me by saying, "This game has you written all over it." I was very intrigued, but CJ is a man of his word and did not break embargo. Even when I was speculating about the ...

The first thing I did at PAX East yesterday was hit up Matt Papa and Takuya Aizu of Inti Creates about a question I've had on my mind ever since they shadow-dropped Blaster Master Zero 2 last week: Will the game get character DLC? The ...

We barely got there because technical difficulties really gimped the reveal, but Gearbox is remastering the original Borderlands. Just as we suspected as recently as last week. Borderlands Game of the Year Edition reworks a few things...

Amid long-winded setups for magic tricks and counting nearly 50 cards (multiple times), Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford managed to formally reveal Borderlands 3. The trailer that's embedded above tells you just about everything you need t...

At PAX East today, Gearbox revealed it is working with Hopoo Games on Risk of Rain 2. Risk of Rain was a 2D roguelike loot-based platform shooter with a kickin' soundtrack. Risk of Rain 2 changes up that formula a bit, bringing it to a 3D t...

Bulletstorm's over-the-top, combo-chaining, explosive, obscene action is coming to a new platform in a few months. One of the first proper announcements at Gearbox's PAX East panel is that Bulletstorm is being ported to Switch. This ve...

The Gearbox PAX East panel just started and Randy Pitchford is still laying the teasers on thick. There are promises that they're saving the best for last in the hour-long presentation. But, an interesting note from the first five minutes ...

As of this very moment, Peter Glagowski, Rich Meister, Caitlin Cooke and myself are entering the Boston Convention Center to get a load of PAX East 2019. We'll be playing and previewing a bunch of games, so keep your eyes peeled for sudden ...

As we inch ever closer to PAX East tomorrow, Gearbox Software is ramping up the teasers for its Borderlands related project. Many are speculating that this is indeed Borderlands 3, but who can really say? With the way current industry trend...

The teased new project from Yacht Club Games has finally stepped out from the shadows. Cyber Shadow will be the long-awaited follow-up to Shovel Knight, sticking with the retro aesthetic and bringing us back to the glory days of the NES era...

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