Titles like Before Your Eyes really show how virtual reality can upend everything you think you know about video gaming. This is a well liked year-old game that comes alive on the new Playstation headset. And there’s no doubt in my mind it is now the definitive way to play it. The game drops you into the afterlife where a […]

Following the apocalyptic events of Mortal Kombat 11 and its story-based expansion, Mortal Kombat 1 represents a new era for the franchise’s characters. While it purports to do the same for the video game series, the more I played Mortal Kombat 1, the more familiar the latest entry felt, but that’s far from a bad thing. Mortal Kombat 1 brings […]

Detective Pikachu exists in an exceptionally rare space in the video game industry. A subseries to the wildly popular Pokémon franchise that started as a video game in 2018′ 3DS title, the name Detective Pikachu is more synonymous with its 2019 live-action theatrical film starring Justice Smith and Ryan Reynolds. But just before the release of that film, The Pokémon […]

As a decades-long fan of pro wrestling and RPGs, WrestleQuest is my dream premise. A game that distills the best traits of classics like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VI and injects them with a hefty dose of sports entertainment? Sign me up. However, what begins as a great idea on paper falls apart thanks to a botched execution that […]

Following Yakuza 6: Song of Life in 2018, players bid farewell to Kazuma Kiryu as the series protagonist. In 2020, Yakuza: Like a Dragon positioned the charismatic Ichiban Kasuga as the franchise’s new face and flipped the series’ gameplay conventions on its head, signaling a new era for the series (even though Kiryu still played a big part in that […]

Last month I visited Sonic Team’s new headquarters in Burbank, CA, alongside Game Informer’s Brian Shea, who’s now played half of Sonic Superstars. The upcoming 2D platformer brings Sonic The Hedgehog, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy back for a new cooperative adventure — however, I’d like to note we only engaged with the single-player experience. After our several-hour hands-on play session, we sat in […]

After a strange, but funny tease and an official teaser trailer earlier this month, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (not to be confused with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3) is been fully unveiled with a full trailer, new details, and a handful of screenshots, which you can find below. Expectedly, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III’s campaign picks […]

I’m a fan of musicals of all kinds. From Hamilton to La La Land to Bob’s Burgers, if the characters in your story burst into song, I’m more than likely on board. For this exact reason, Stray Gods: The Role-Playing Musical caught my eye, exciting both my inner fan of musicals and my inner fan of games. Despite some complaints […]

Double Dragon may be one of the original pillars of the beat ‘em up genre, but that foundation has weakened in modern times. Infrequent sequels of varying quality have tested Jimmy and Billy Lee’s modern relevance, but Double Dragon Gaiden does a solid job of reinventing the pair with a neat tag team mechanic. Though as enjoyable as this contemporary […]

Microsoft has delivered a cracker here. This is the best Minecraft game since, well Minecraft. Where the last spin-off title Dungeons was a decent little action adventure game, Legends builds on that whilst also bringing into the fray the best elements of the original block builder. What you get is an action-strategy title that’s built for multiple platform cross-play gaming […]