Once considered a cult-hit, the Yakuza series has finally been rising in mainstream gaming popularity as of late, and it’s both refreshing and curious to see the Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio continue to take crazy approaches with the direction of…
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Sackboy: A Big Adventure takes the franchise in a new direction while still maintaining the infectious charm of its predecessors
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by Josh Schwartzman
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02 Dec 2020
The Assassin’s Creed franchise has come a long way since its inception back in 2007. Gone are the quiet, calculated kills from the shadows, replaced with loud, brandish battles filled with violent fanfare and over-the-top executions. Valhalla is the biggest…
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At its core, though, Spider-Man: Miles Morales is really just more Spider-Man. It doesn’t reinvent the wheel or anything like that.
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by Jon Yelenic
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22 Nov 2020
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is a game that wears many hats, but doesn’t fit any of them quite right.
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Demon’s Souls is a testament to how maybe old dogs don’t necessarily need to learn new tricks to win best-in-show, but rather how a little grooming can go a long way.
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Games that are free launch day pack-ins are thought of as a thing of the past, and after experiencing the tech demo that was The Playroom during the PS4’s launch, nobody expected Astro’s Playroom to be much different. It turns…
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Fans of the arcade racing genre have been a long-neglected lot, thanks to an overall lack of output from genre pillars Sega and Namco, as well as some blurring of genre lines with the proliferation of “action racers” – or…
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by Josh Schwartzman
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16 Nov 2020
Legion’s gameplay feels entirely bland and uninspiring, despite its ambition on making every character in the game playable. The story sometimes gets lost in the random filler and constant need to meet everyone in the city, and it’s here where Watch Dogs: Legion loses its heart.
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What better way to have celebrated Halloween than with the release of a spooky game in The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope. It’s a survival horror game that has you jumping back and forth in time to figure out what’s…
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If you had one day left, what would you do? Would you spend it with the family? Go out and have fun? Bury old grievances? There are many options, and the answer is a very personal one. Mad Rat Dead…
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Despite being a huge fan of western RPGs such as Skyrim and Dragon Age: Origins, I somehow completely missed playing Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning when it originally released back in 2012. After THQ Nordic bought the rights to the series…
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