Review: After a Long Vermintide 2 Hiatus, the Grail Knight Brought Me Back
For years I’ve been playing video games with friends—it’s always been our way of hanging out across the thousands of miles that separate us. For a long time, Vermintide 2 […]
Review: Waking is a Nightmare
Video games have been trying to tackle mental health more and more lately. Games like Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice not only did the research to get it right, but was able […]
Review: The Last of Us Part II is a Technical Marvel with a Draining Story
As one of the premier studios in video games, any time Naughty Dog releases a game it’s an occasion. The Uncharted series is incredibly popular, but their 2013 game The […]
Review: Neversong‘s Moody Nightmare World Doesn’t Strike the Right Chords
Some games take their worth from what they do new for a genre. Games like Braid that pushed the mechanics and story limits of a platformer, or your Cuphead that offer […]
Review: Hunt with Man’s Best Friend in Hunting Simulator 2, Though it’s Dogged with Issues
When I was younger, I played a good amount of hunting games, but I never really got into them. There’s something about their pacing that I couldn’t appreciate. Now that […]
Review: Biped Stumbles Gracefully Onto Nintendo Switch
When our Games and Tech Editor originally reviewed Biped on PC, he said it was a hilarious blast to play with a friend, and that he would wholeheartedly recommend it. So […]
Review: Japanese Fighter Samurai Shodown is Finally on PC
Hell yes, Samurai Shodown is finally on PC. Released on every major platform so far, including Nintendo Switch and showing up as one of Stadia’s Pro launch titles, it’s about […]
Preview: Cut Ships Down into Salvage in Sci-Fi Hardspace:Shipbreaker
Science fiction is rarely mundane. Usually, it’s about what makes us human, some evil empire that must be brought down—or really, any number of stories that deal with deep philosophical […]
Review: RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 is back on Steam, and Now on Switch—Nostalgia Not Required
The RollerCoaster Tycoon name may have been tarnished by more recent releases—I’m looking at you RollerCoaster Tycoon 4, RollerCoaster Tycoon World and RollerCoaster Tycoon Adventures—but Planet Coaster seems to be […]
Review: Summer in Mara is an Escape into Paradise
These have been some dark days. 2020 has been, for a lot of us, a pretty crappy year. I think that’s why games like Animal Crossing have been so popular. […]
Review: Desperados III Is a Wild West Stealth Tactical Dream
I never played the Desperados series before. I had certainly heard of it, but this almost twenty year old series was just outside the games I usually played–which is too […]
Review: House Flipper for Nintendo Switch: We’re Not Mad, Just Disappointed
One of my guilty pleasures is HGTV–more specifically, shows about flipping houses, or hunting for them. I don’t really care about the hosts necessarily, or even the circumstances surrounding the […]