It's a well-established and common opinion by now that Red Dead Redemption was one of the best open-world video games of its time. For its sequel, players expected Rockstar to up the ante and surpass the devilishly good predecessor. Ro...

Ironically, Donut County is a game without holes. Well, not strictly speaking. Donut County is a game about an ever-growing hole. But, it's also a game without any real flaws -- its inventive and creative spirit shining brightly ...

Fallout 76 is a comedy of errors, but one thing that seemed to be getting corrected was the snafu with the duffle bag included in the collector's edition. After advertising it as a canvas bag, buyers were greeted with an incredibly cheap ny...

Capybara's new dungeon-delving adventure, Below, places a lot of confidence in its players. Aside from a few basic control prompts up front, the beloved indie studio offers almost zero explicit instructions. There's a fundamental faith that...

Can you do any of the dances from Fortnite? I can't. I tried... "Flossing"? - I think it was Flossing - but I didn't have the coordination, or any hips. Still, people love those Fortnite dances, so much so, that developer Epic Games keep la...

Kingdom Hearts III, at long last, will be with us in just over a month. Excited yet? Square Enix sure hopes you are. To help stoke those hype fires a little more, the developer/publisher has dropped a dramatic new trailer, titled "Final Bat...

One of my favorite overlooked PlayStation 2 titles is a 2003 brawler called War of the Monsters. Inspired by B-movies of the 1950s, the game let you choose from a wide variety of Kaiju and giant robots, then battle it out in a 3D arena full...

Here's a potentially dangerous hypothetical: This summer, a forest ranger could play Firewatch in their lookout tower, distracted and completely oblivious to the first signs of a fire. That's the sort of possibility only afforded by t...

Custom games will finally be coming to Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's "Blackout" mode. While private servers for friends have existed in the other game modes, the battle royale addition to this year's newest COD has conspicuously been missing ...

Subnautica was released very early this year on PC and just recently made a splash on PS4 and Xbox One. People kind of slept on it for a while but the console versions have given it a renewed sense of vigor, on top of a pretty killer new pr...

After being briefly usurped last week by the amazing success of Nintendo's crossover fighter Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Rockstar's epic western adventure Red Dead Redemption 2 is back atop the UK Charts.Red Dead 2 is followed up by Electro...

Fortune Island signals a shift for Forza Horizon expansions. The add-ons for the previous game, Blizzard Mountain and Hot Wheels, created variation by fundamentally changing the experience of driving. The former put every car...

Another chaotic, cathartic shooter from SNK's Metal Slug series returns to modern platforms this week, as retro-enthusiasts Hamster release Metal Slug 5 on PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.Originally launching in arcades in 2003, Metal Slu...

One of the most frustrating things about being a fan of any form of media is the possibility that somebody is going to spoil part of, or all of, something you're looking forward to. The internet has only made avoiding spoilers more difficul...

A few months ago, Google had opened a beta of its "Project Stream" service with Assassin's Creed Odyssey as the headlining title. Whether the results were good or not, Google is holding another test and the incentive is a bit more appetizin...

Capybara's dungeon-crawling adventure Below doesn't hold your hand. It can be cryptic and at times obtuse, but then again, it's a game about discovery. Some initial confusion and misunderstandings just come with the territory as you suss ou...

After recently announcing that he would begin self-publishing Stardew Valley on all platforms except for Nintendo Switch and mobile, game creator Eric Barone promised more announcements would come soon. Earlier today, he had quite a lot to ...

I'm not ready to stop playing Overcooked 2, and thankfully, I don't have to! Ghost Town Games has come out with Kevin's Christmas Cracker, a free batch of DLC with five new holiday-themed levels and fresh recipes including Christmas pudding...

The whole appeal of the battle royale sub-genre is that your odds of winning are left to random chance. Sometimes you land in a spot with a ton of excellent gear and other times you're stuck with squat. Skill will get you a long way, but a ...

Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ardyn has been confirmed as the last major DLC for the game following the departure of director and lifeblood of the game Hajime Tabata: who went on to form his own studio a short while later. It's currently d...

Below, the long-awaited new adventure from Sword & Sworcery and Super Time Force developer Capybara Games, isn't quite the game I expected it to be. Part of that is on the project's initial secrecy, and part of that is on me for decidin...

Activision has followed the same format for Call of Duty DLC since...well, forever. Typically they announce add-ons ahead of time, which are comprised of a handful of maps and a zombie pack, then that date comes and whatever publisher has t...

Microsoft has announced a new costume pack for hugely-successful build 'em up title Minecraft, with aims of raising cash for animal-friendly charity The World Wildlife Fund.The "Paws and Claws" pack will be the first of the WWF-themed chari...

It's the second week of December and this is one of the busiest times online for holiday shopping - or at least, that's how some retailers infer it with their "Green Monday" marketing moniker earlier this week. Now that we're within strikin...

Half the fun of fighting game reveals is the inevitable months-long conversation about which characters will make the roster. We're going through that right now with Mortal Kombat 11 but at an expedited pace because it releases relativ...