The new big bad in Mortal Kombat is named Kronika, and she’s causing a ruckus by messing with time and rewriting history. Characters are getting erased or colliding with their…

The neon-soaked hallways and dirty streets of Katana Zero do a great job of sucking you into its broken world. Gangsters operate unhindered as society is still reeling from a…

Having an animal retrieve something at your command is one of the great joys of being a pet owner. It’s difficult to put into words. My girlfriend’s daschund hardly listens…

Marijuana. The Devil’s Lettuce. Sweet Mary-Jane. All words for the same thing rolled up and smoked as a jazz cigarette. In Weedcraft Inc, you’re not a smoker, but an entrepreneur…

With all the high-end hardware requirements typical of VR gaming, you’d think of the Nintendo Switch as the least likely candidate to adopt it. But one of the many things…

You certainly can’t say that Zanki Zero: Last Beginning is not unique. How many other games out there are first-person, real-time, tile-based roguelike horror dungeon crawls featuring in-depth survival mechanics,…

It’s impossible to play or talk about Dangerous Driving without comparing it to Criterion’s seminal Burnout 3: Takedown. This is by design, of course, as developer Three Fields Entertainment–a small…

MLB The Show 19 begins with an ode to spring: the opening cutscene waxes lyrical about the world blooming into color with bright blue skies and beaming sun rays amid…

Tropico 6 is not a fair game. It positions you as not only the head of a small island nation, but also on a political stage with far greater powers…

(Editor’s note: This review contains spoilers for Episode 3.) About 20 minutes into Take Us Back, the finality of it all truly starts to sink in. This is the last…

In English, most fairy tales lead with the phrase “once upon a time.” In Hungarian, they begin with the word “Operencia,” which roughly translates to “far, far away.” And that’s…

Much as we ride roller coasters because we like to be frightened, we solve puzzles because we like to be challenged–and the more complex the puzzle, the more satisfied we…

By restricting traditional movement and thrusting you into carefully constructed 2D mazes, simply getting around Ethereal’s levels presents challenging conundrums that are deeply satisfying to overcome. Despite some uneven pacing…

While Bloodborne tweaked the combat dynamics of Dark Souls to encourage aggression, Sekiro rewrites the rules of engagement. The building blocks of its combat are recognisable, but this only serves…

You awaken in a city under enemy occupation after neighbouring forces swept in and brutally laid waste to soldiers and civilians alike. You’re separated from your squad, your Wanzer mech…

I don’t know why I’m in Washington DC; some lady just told me to be here. But there are civilians in distress, armed gangs roaming the streets, and me, my…

Space, as I’m sure we’re all aware, is incomprehensibly vast. It can be difficult to fathom the scope of large nations in earnest, to say nothing of the endless expanse…

ToeJam & Earl was in many respects typical of the kind of game that defined the Genesis–charmingly eccentric, ostentatiously hip, staunchly uncommercial. A broad comic pastiche of tropes from early…

Assault Android Cactus, first released on PC back in 2015, is a game that feels perfectly suited to the Switch. It’s the sort of experience that works equally at home…

I’m glad I played through The Occupation a second time. My first playthrough did not end well. Yes, I made it to the end, I saw a final cutscene and…

In 2010, Kirby’s Epic Yarn spun the traditional formula of Dream Land’s favorite hero on its head, reimaging Kirby stuck in a world made entirely of yarn, buttons, and zippers….

Ape Out is, at heart, a game about jazz. The soundtrack is crafted by your improvised actions as you careen a runaway ape through the game’s levels, leaving a path…

The most effective horror can seep its way into the mundanity of our everyday lives, ruminating beneath the surface before wrapping its malevolent tendrils around our sense of comfort and…

Trials Rising is a sequel to a franchise that has a lot of things figured out. After multiple entries that have helped refine gameplay that was already good to start…

Trials Rising is a sequel to a franchise that has a lot of things figured out. After multiple entries that have helped refine gameplay that was already good to start…

There’s a blacksmith, toiling away in the markets of the capital of Nava, who thinks making swords is boring. Why create something, she argues, when death is its only use?…

What can be said about Tetris that hasn’t been said already? Well, that depends on the type of Tetris game in question. Tetris Effect changed the conversation around the classic…

Launching upward off a jungle floor and bursting through a thick canopy of trees, bobbing and weaving your way under a waterfall as you take in the lush landscape below…

Launching upward off a jungle floor and bursting through a thick canopy of trees, bobbing and weaving your way under a waterfall as you take in the lush landscape below…

If you had to explain Yo-kai Watch in a nutshell to someone who’s never heard of or played it, you might boil it down to “Pokemon but with Japanese ghosts”…