Ah, single player Star Wars. Long have we waited to see this work out. Star Wars: Battlefront (2015) had nothing to say and Battlefront II provided Inferno Squad through a single-player campaign, but still relied heavily on multiplayer activity. But…
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A mainline Pokémon release is always a big deal, but this time it’s different. Not only is it the debut of a mainline release on a new platform, it’s the debut of a mainline Pokémon on a home console.
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“The Rope and The Stick, together, are one of humankind’s oldest tools. The Stick is for keeping evil away; The Rope is for pulling good toward us; these are the first friends the human race invented. Wherever you find humans,…
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Whatever amount of success this game finds, Concrete Genie deserves more.
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With the Olympic Games coming to Tokyo in the summer of next year, Nintendo and Sega would be crazy not to take advantage–especially after pretty much making Mario an unofficial ambassador for Japan as the Olympics makes its way there….
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We’re going back to war. Well, not really. Xbox Game Studios and The Coalition are taking us back to the Gears franchise but dropping the “of War” portion of the title and simply offering us Gears 5. But will this…
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Trails of Cold Steel III is more Trails, which RPG fans have been longing for. This isn’t the best place to start if you haven’t already gotten into the series though.
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The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is the very first Zelda game I ever played. Back in the days when I thought the elf running around was Zelda, it was one of the reasons why I wanted a Game Boy. In fact,…
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When I was a kid, there was a much-acclaimed studio called Treasure. Treasure was astonishing. They would put out these amazingly well-tuned, well-designed action games that always involved far more detail put into them then so many of their contemporaries….
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From Alan Wake to Quantum Break, Remedy has been responsible for quite the profound experiences as of late. Control is the latest in their portfolio, and while it does suffer from some polish issues, it just might be the signature…
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Bugbear Entertainment are known for their over-the-top demolition derby style racing games. The FlatOut series proved to be quite popular on the 6th and 7th generation consoles. For FlatOut 3, development was turned over to another studio, and the game…
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For a few generations of gamers, ‘Nintendo’ is synonymous with video games. Think of all the things that come to mind when that word is spoken: Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Pokemon. So many childhoods are filled with these…
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