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The 15 best gifts for video game fans this holiday season
By William Hughes
November 16, 2023 | 1:00pm
Game Theory:
Star Ocean: The Second Story R
is a beautifully busted throwback
By William Hughes
November 10, 2023 | 4:00pm
Game Theory: This is not a review of
Alan Wake 2
By William Hughes
November 3, 2023 | 1:00pm
Future shock: Ranking gaming's darkest, brightest, and ugliest futures
By William Hughes
October 30, 2023 | 3:00pm
Game Theory:
Super Mario Bros. Wonder
may be Nintendo's most elegant online game ever
By William Hughes
October 27, 2023 | 3:00pm
Arizona Sunshine 2
and
The 7th Guest VR
have us asking: Is VR still the future of gaming?
By William Hughes
October 23, 2023 | 4:00pm
Game Theory: Why Spider-Man is gaming's greatest superhero
By William Hughes
October 20, 2023 | 3:00pm
Assassin's Creed: Mirage
shrinks everything—including its hero's personality
By William Hughes
October 13, 2023 | 3:00pm
Monster Hunter Now
makes hunting dinos in your neighborhood a little too dull
By William Hughes
October 6, 2023 | 3:30pm
10 other classic characters that deserve their own "violent, sexy
Pinocchio
game"
By William Hughes
October 4, 2023 | 2:00pm
F-Zero 99
is a waste of one of Nintendo's best ideas
By William Hughes
September 29, 2023 | 2:00pm
Get your bad on: 10 video games that let you play as the worst villains imaginable
By William Hughes
September 29, 2023 | 1:00pm
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
goes a long way toward fixing a flawed masterpiece
By William Hughes
September 22, 2023 | 2:00pm
Help, my
Baldur's Gate 3
party needs an HR rep
By William Hughes
September 15, 2023 | 3:00pm
Starfield
's futuristic "NASA-punk" setting carries some surprisingly real morality baggage
By Sam Barsanti
September 8, 2023 | 3:00pm
10 great
Dungeons & Dragons
games for when you (finally) finish
Baldur's Gate III
By William Hughes
September 5, 2023 | 1:00pm
Armored Core VI
's brutal first boss is all about the horrors and pleasures of climbing The Wall
By William Hughes
September 1, 2023 | 3:00pm
Ranking the 10 best, and 5 worst, comedy games of all time
By William Hughes
August 28, 2023 | 1:00pm
Immortals Of Aveum
: A surprisingly fun shooter cursed with one of gaming's all-time obnoxious heroes
By William Hughes
August 25, 2023 | 3:00pm
Pseudoregalia
is an indie gaming winner that's absolutely gorgeous—in its own way
By William Hughes
August 18, 2023 | 2:00pm
Stray Gods
:
The Roleplaying Musical
is charming—but skimps on the "roleplaying"
By William Hughes
August 11, 2023 | 2:00pm
On second look,
Remnant 2
is one of the great games of 2023
By William Hughes
August 4, 2023 | 3:00pm
Now you can actually play those annoying fake Facebook ad games
By William Hughes
July 28, 2023 | 2:00pm
Remnant 2
would be a fun, brutal shooter—if it ever shut up
By William Hughes
July 21, 2023 | 4:00pm
Final Fantasy XVI
's pivot to action is surprisingly boring
By William Hughes
July 14, 2023 | 4:00pm
Lies Of P
's demo promises the "sexy Pinocchio fights evil puppets" game of your dreams
By William Hughes
July 7, 2023 | 2:00pm
Summer was made for games like the bizarre
Wanted: Dead
By Sam Barsanti
June 30, 2023 | 2:00pm
Crime Boss: Rockay City
is prettay crappay
By William Hughes
June 23, 2023 | 3:00pm
Not so Final: Ranking the 10 best
Final Fantasy
spin-offs
By William Hughes
June 19, 2023 | 1:00pm
Final Fantasy
has gone full
Game Of Thrones
,
and it's kind of great
By William Hughes
June 16, 2023 | 4:00pm
Diablo IV
's Hardcore mode is a fun way to flush your life down the toilet
By William Hughes
June 9, 2023 | 4:00pm
18 years later,
We Love Katamari
remains a perfect video game
By William Hughes
June 2, 2023 | 4:00pm
Ashly Burch, gaming icon and
Mythic Quest
star, has some thoughts
By William Hughes
June 2, 2023 | 3:00pm
From
Stranger Things
to Twitch: Streaming star Grace Van Dien answers our questions
By William Hughes
June 2, 2023 | 3:00pm
We asked a
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
dev about its biggest twists, and the joys of killing Stormtroopers
By William Hughes
May 26, 2023 | 2:00pm
Here are the 10 best video game trailers from today's big PlayStation event
By William Hughes
May 25, 2023 | 1:16am
We love
The Legend Of
Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom
's silly sign man
By William Hughes
May 19, 2023 | 3:00pm
First impressions:
Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom
is the most purely fun Nintendo game in a decade
By William Hughes
May 17, 2023 | 3:00pm
Darkest Dungeon II
's full release is a bitter, brutal cause for celebration
By William Hughes
May 12, 2023 | 1:00pm
The Legend Of Links: Ranking
Zelda
's mute, but expressive, heroes
By William Hughes
May 11, 2023 | 2:00pm
One of 2022's best games gets a slim but gorgeous expansion with
The Spider Of Lanka
By William Hughes
May 5, 2023 | 2:00pm
7 smaller games for when you're burnt out on huge, open-world mayhem
By William Hughes
April 28, 2023 | 4:00pm
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores
feels trapped in the apocalyptic past
By William Hughes
April 21, 2023 | 2:00pm
The state of
Minecraft
in 2023
By William Hughes
April 20, 2023 | 6:00pm
Meet Your Maker
is a brilliant, crafty spin on multiplayer murder
By William Hughes
April 14, 2023 | 1:00pm
3 hours previewing
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
reveal a worthy sequel to
Fallen Order
By William Hughes
April 7, 2023 | 3:00pm
Damning with faint praise:
Diablo IV
is the smartest
Diablo
game in more than a decade
By William Hughes
March 31, 2023 | 3:00pm
Tetris
Time: 5 other great potential real-life video game adaptations
By William Hughes
March 29, 2023 | 2:00pm
5 things we wish we'd known before starting the
Resident Evil 4
remake
By William Hughes
March 24, 2023 | 3:00pm
Wild Hearts
manages to make something fresh and exciting out of pilfered parts
By William Hughes
March 17, 2023 | 2:00pm
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty
"innovates" by finding new games to steal from
By William Hughes
March 10, 2023 | 3:00pm
What the hell does an
Elden Ring
DLC even look like?
By William Hughes
March 3, 2023 | 2:00pm
One year later,
Elden Ring
’s first level remains a mysterious masterpiece
By William Hughes
February 25, 2023 | 4:00pm
Oh, hey,
PowerWash Simulator
lets you clean up for war criminals now
By William Hughes
February 24, 2023 | 4:00pm
With
Like A Dragon: Ishin!
, one of gaming's best series reclaims a "lost" installment
By William Hughes
February 17, 2023 | 3:00pm
Oh, hey, Nintendo suddenly noticed it has one of the best handheld libraries of all time
By William Hughes
February 10, 2023 | 5:00pm
7 Days To End With You
makes translation a (fun!) life-or-death matter
By William Hughes
February 3, 2023 | 2:00pm
The 5 best, and 5 weirdest, Disney games of all time
By William Hughes
January 28, 2023 | 4:37pm
Justin Roiland's Squanch Games just lost a CEO, but has everything to gain
By William Hughes
January 27, 2023 | 1:30pm
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider
asks: When are retro games
too
retro?
By William Hughes
January 20, 2023 | 2:00pm
GeoGuessr
adaptation provides brand new way to get frustrated with
Elden Ring
By Reid McCarter
January 19, 2023 | 9:23pm
Forspoken
's demo is great, even if the game itself might not be
By William Hughes
January 13, 2023 | 2:30pm
Alice In Borderland
is a fun, bloody reminder that there's no "keeping politics out of games"
By William Hughes
January 6, 2023 | 2:00pm
Behold: An army of Pokémon sculptures created from Q-Tips
By Reid McCarter
January 5, 2023 | 6:51pm
Is
Yakuza
gaming's greatest Christmas-time franchise?
By William Hughes
December 30, 2022 | 12:00pm
What games are you desperate to get to before 2022 dies?
By William Hughes
December 23, 2022 | 12:30pm
Let's talk about
Marvel Snap
, the best mobile game of 2022
By William Hughes, Sam Barsanti
December 16, 2022 | 12:00pm
Marvel's Midnight Suns
won't let you kiss Spider-Man—but it will let him team up with the X-Men
By William Hughes
December 9, 2022 | 1:00pm
Pentiment
is a brilliant game about being a terrible medieval murder-solver
By William Hughes
December 2, 2022 | 3:00pm
Pokémon Scarlet
and
Violet
are glitchy, ugly, broken … and as free as the series has ever been
By William Hughes
November 25, 2022 | 1:00pm
What does your starter Pokémon say about you?
By William Hughes, Jack Smart, Sam Barsanti
November 18, 2022 | 5:00pm
The Game Awards want to be gaming's Oscars, but they're really just its Super Bowl
By William Hughes
November 18, 2022 | 12:30pm
Great games, great menus, terrible Gamertags: 20 years of Xbox Live
By Sam Barsanti
November 14, 2022 | 5:00pm
West Of Loathing
, one of the funniest games ever made, just got a surprise sequel
By William Hughes
November 11, 2022 | 4:00pm
Gods, VR, and a freedom-loving murder cult:
Assassin's Creed
has the weirdest mythology in gaming
By Sam Barsanti
November 11, 2022 | 3:00pm
Let's kill God! The 5 most satisfying deity kills in gaming
By William Hughes
November 9, 2022 | 3:00pm
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare II
takes a lot of big swings but only lands a few hits
By Sam Barsanti
November 4, 2022 | 12:00pm
5 hours in,
God Of War
Ragnarök
is a welcome, well-crafted return to a modern classic
By William Hughes
October 28, 2022 | 11:30am
Gun-toting wannabes and your best friend, Joker: Looking back at the weirdest
Batman
games ever
By William Hughes
October 26, 2022 | 6:29pm
Can
Resident Evil Village
still be scary when it's not right up in your face?
By William Hughes
October 24, 2022 | 3:00pm
Mario + Rabbids Sparks Of Hope
doesn’t have enough chocolate
or
peanut butter
By Sam Barsanti
October 21, 2022 | 12:00pm
The Case Of The Golden Idol
is gorgeous, gross, and one of the best detective games in years
By William Hughes
October 14, 2022 | 12:00pm
A bloody ode to video game violence, in honor of
Mortal Kombat
’s 30th anniversary
By Sam Barsanti
October 8, 2022 | 2:00pm
Overwatch "2"
isn't a sequel—it's a marketing gimmick
By William Hughes
October 7, 2022 | 12:00pm
Shovel Knight: Dig
is a fascinating evolution of an indie game favorite
By William Hughes
September 30, 2022 | 2:00pm
You can't go home again—but you can
Return To Monkey Island
By William Hughes
September 23, 2022 | 12:00pm
Splatoon 3
is a bright, bewildering place for a franchise newbie to get lost in
By William Hughes
September 16, 2022 | 11:00am
We are saddened to report that
Fortnite
is still, somehow, very good
By William Hughes
September 9, 2022 | 1:00pm
The 4 best Soulslike games (that weren't made by the
Dark Souls
folks)
By William Hughes
September 8, 2022 | 2:00pm
What's the best way to remake a beloved video game?
By William Hughes
September 2, 2022 | 11:00am
7 weirdos to rule them all: The strangest games based on
The Lord Of The Rings
By William Hughes
August 31, 2022 | 12:00pm
Taking a history class is rarely as fun as it is in
SD Gundam Battle Alliance
By Sam Barsanti
August 26, 2022 | 1:00pm
Citizen Sleeper
's dice rolls are even more brutal than its capitalist future hellscape
By William Hughes
August 19, 2022 | 11:00am
Cult Of The Lamb
is an adorably gross mash-up of some of indie gaming's best ideas
By William Hughes
August 12, 2022 | 10:00am
Fire and remember: 23 great unorthodox weapons in video games
By William Hughes, Sam Barsanti, Samantha Nelson, Alexander Chatziioannou, Grace Benfell
August 8, 2022 | 8:00am
With its new DLC,
Into The Breach
instantly becomes one of the best mobile games ever
By William Hughes
August 5, 2022 | 10:00am
Bright Memory: Infinite
should be the next cult hit indie game
By Sam Barsanti
July 29, 2022 | 10:00am
Escape Academy
is another very good digital substitute for escape room nerds
By William Hughes
July 22, 2022 | 11:00am
Last Call BBS
, its creators' final game,
is a love letter to the process
By William Hughes
July 15, 2022 | 10:00am
The shiny new PlayStation Plus is an aging buffet of leftovers
By William Hughes
July 8, 2022 | 12:00pm
Let's get ready for
Love And Thunder
with Mighty Thor in
Marvel’s Avengers
By Sam Barsanti
July 1, 2022 | 10:00am
Neon White
will make you hate your friends, in the best ways
By William Hughes
June 24, 2022 | 10:00am
TMNT: Shredder's Revenge
is a well-made dose of pure, uncut Saturday morning nostalgia
By William Hughes
June 17, 2022 | 8:00am
Rogue Legacy 2
is an across-the-board improvement of a gaming classic
By William Hughes
June 10, 2022 | 10:00am
Ranking the 10 best trailers from today's leaky, mostly craptacular Summer Game Fest
By William Hughes
June 9, 2022 | 10:00pm
Sniper Elite 5
can't help missing the point
By Sam Barsanti
June 3, 2022 | 9:00am
Tech modder figures he might as well rig up a Nintendo Power Glove to his Switch and play
Mario Kart
By Reid McCarter
June 1, 2022 | 6:15pm
Ah, finally, there's a
Smash Bros.
clone where Arya Stark can rip off Steven Universe's face
By William Hughes
May 27, 2022 | 11:00am
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