It’s been quite the journey for Techland’s Dying Light 2 Stay Human, a title that was initially announced at 2018’s E3 and then went radio silent for quite some time before re-emerging a few years later. The long-awaited sequel is finally here after numerous delays, and while it isn’t perfect, it delivers on much of...
Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection is a set of two previously released video games, 2016’s Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and 2017’s Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, remastered for the PlayStation 5 and PC. And that is… exactly what it is. That’s it. Both titles have improved visuals, framerates, and take advantage of PS5 features like...
Pokemon Legends: Arceus is a bold new take for the Pokemon franchise that gives players the most immersive and captivating Pokemon experience yet. The new game chucks out the familiar Pokemon game formula for an ambitious game loop and mechanics inspired more by the likes of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and the...
In 2018, Ubisoft introduced a limited-time mode in Rainbow Six Siege called “Outbreak.” The cooperative multiplayer mode tasked players with taking out alien opponents, rather than humans. A few years have passed, and that concept has evolved into a full game in the form of Rainbow Six Extraction. The game maintains enough Rainbow Six elements...
God of War is one of the best PlayStation games of all-time. That’s a statement that has become pretty widely accepted by most people since the newest iteration of the long-running franchise first arrived back in 2018. As such, it seemed like only a matter of time until Sony brought its highest-selling first-party PS4 title...
In 2016, indie developer Heart Machine burst onto the scene with the crowdfunded gem Hyper Light Drifter, a 2D action/adventure game influenced by classics like A Link to the Past and Diablo. The game’s powerful visual and audio aesthetic helped blend the disparate influences encoded into DNA, creating a whole many times greater than the...
The Game Boy era of video games has low-key started to get pretty old. Whereas I once used to have various Game Boy consoles and games cluttering assorted drawers in my bedroom, most of my collection in recent years has either been put away in storage or eventually was sold off. What I’ve personally found...
Halo Infinite is the best Halo game that 343 Industries has made so far. That’s a sentence that I hoped to be writing when Halo Infinite was first announced all the way back in 2018, and while it took longer than expected for the game to arrive, 343 has really done a bang-up job on...
Battlefield 2042 has brought me to my breaking point with troublesome live-service multiplayer releases. Over the past few years, there have been a plethora of multiplayer titles that seem to launch in a rough state with the promise of getting better over time. While some of those games have indeed become much improved in due...
This year has been a very strong one for Nintendo, and the company has one final first-party offering in 2021 in Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain. The first entry in the series since 2007, Brain vs. Brain offers players the opportunity to flex their mental muscles on their own, or while competing with other...
