The open-world genre has really become such a mainstay in the current generation of gaming. What was once an occasional pop up in the game industry now shows up in almost every release both big and small. For every Breath … Read More
Three years ago, the 2019 sleeper hit A Plague Tale: Innocence released to noteworthy buzz and eventually went on to be a major award-winning hit, even netting itself a Game of the Year award as well as securing a Top … Read More
Rebooting a franchise is never an easy ordeal. One of the positive metrics of a reboot is that whatever is getting rebooted had something worth sticking with but its also a glaring indication that something wasn’t right a hundred percent … Read More
When the PlayStation 5 was first announced, one of the early games revealed for it was Stray, a game where you control a cat in a cyberpunk city that’s apparently populated by robots. Now that the game is finally out … Read More
I know what you’re thinking. You’re looking at that title and you’re saying to yourself, “this guy must be out of his mind.” You’re thinking I’m full of it. That I have taken one too many crazy pills and I’ve … Read More
Nobody Saves the World comes to us from Drinkbox Studios, makers of the amazing Guacamelee games as well as the oft overlooked PS Vita game, Severed. If your expectation is that there will be some off the wall and weird … Read More
It goes without saying that the Metroid franchise is a staple series in my personal playbook of favorite game series or franchises of all time. Super Metroid is one of my personal favorite games ever made, and in my own … Read More
Occasionally a video game comes along that solidifies and cements our personal reasons on why we play video games. Sometimes it’s a triple A blockbuster with big budget production values and sometimes It’s a simple indie darling with a small … Read More
The Nier series is one of those rare instances where a series is both a cult classic and a fevered cause of hype and amazement. This happens because those of us within the Yoko Taro fan club will adamantly remind … Read More
I’m very certain that somewhere, somehow a pitch meeting of a video game developer to a company for a game that included a little bit of Destiny, a dash of Diablo and Borderlands and the gameplay of Gears of War … Read More