I've always measured Mario Party games by the tension it brings. The star stealing, the backstabbing, the teamwork, the fact that skill has nothing to do wit...

Super Mario Party Review

It's been a rough decade for Mega Man. But there's no need for me to lean back in my chair, puff my pipe, and recount how Capcom exiled the Blue Bomber when ...

Mega Man 11 Review

After a year off, the Assassin's Creed franchise returned in 2017 with the excellent Assassin's Creed Origins. Origins recast the series as a single-player a...

Assassin's Creed Odyssey Review

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Life Is Strange 2 is an explicitly political game - here's our review of Episode 1.

Life is Strange 2 Ep 1 review: life gets even stranger in Trump’s America

Dontnod's Life Is Strange persevered against the odds. It was an adventure game, dressed in a familiar model popularized by Telltale Games. It told a down to...

Life Is Strange 2, Episode 1 Review

Spoiler Warning: The events of Episode One of Telltale’s The Walking Dead: The Final Season will be spoiled in this review.

The Walking Dead: The Final Season, Episode 2 Review

Valkyria Chronicles opened to protagonist Welkin sat cross-legged at a riverbank, sketching fish swimming upstream through clear, sun-dappled waters.

Valkyria Chronicles 4 review - war never changes

Star Control Origins was a weird game for me to review. I've never played the original Star Control titles; at the time, I assumed they were 4X games and I w...

Star Control: Origins Review

Nvidia's new flagship graphics cards are incredible when you put them through their paces, but that price tag stings all the same.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti review: the future is here, but it's pricey

In puzzle games, it's inevitable that you'll hit a roadblock. A moment where you're really, really stumped. In The Gardens Between, a new puzzle-adventure ga...

The Gardens Between Review

It has become a rite of fall to complain about NBA 2K and its focus on VC. Where other games have deliberately scaled back their focus on microtransactions i...

NBA 2K19 Review

What do you do when your sports sim is trapped in a hardcore niche with seemingly no prospects for growth? I guess there are a couple answers: either double ...

NHL 19 Review

Two years ago, I wrote that the Logitech G900 Chaos Spectrum was "one of the finest goddamn mice I've had the pleasure of using." I stand by that. The G900 h...

Logitech G Pro Wireless Mouse Review

It is fairly difficult to go head-to-head with any successful gaming franchise, especially one that is synonymous with a sport. EA Sports is attempting to do...

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