GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?The Evil Dead game perfectly captures the joys of torturing Bruce Campbell, Sam Raimi-stylePlaying as the "Evil" side in Evil Dead: The Game is a fantastic recreation of Raimi's gleeful horror chaosByWilliam Hughes5/20/22 4:00AMComments (30)Save
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Salt And Sacrifice manages to overcome a lousy first impressionSka Studios' Salt And Sanctuary sequel is a bit ugly and off-putting on first glance, but there's an interesting…ByWilliam Hughes5/13/22 4:00AMComments (17)Save
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Screw it, let's just play Vampire SurvivorsLuca Galante's arcade-y Castlevania riff is deeper (and more addictive) than any number of bigger or more expensive…ByWilliam Hughes5/06/22 4:00AMComments (20)Save
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?The best Jeopardy! game, period, is a free archive maintained by dedicated nerdsExtolling the gospel of the J! Archive, a staggering achievement in online geekeryByWilliam Hughes4/29/22 12:00AMComments (22)Save
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Is Lego’s Skywalker Saga the best possible version of J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars movies?At least some of those Rise Of Skywalker plot beats make more sense coming from the mouths of actual cartoon…ByWilliam Hughes4/22/22 12:00AMComments (24)Save
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Returnal's new survival mode is a worthy, weighty addition to 2021's best gameMuch like Returnal itself, Ascension is far smarter, darker, and more fun than first impressions might lead you to…ByWilliam Hughes4/15/22 6:00AMComments (36)Save
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Moss: Book II is a quiet, beautiful testament to the more subtle powers of VRThe sequel to one of 2018’s best VR games is just as gorgeous and immersive as the originalByWilliam Hughes4/08/22 12:00AMComments (37)Save
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?How is Sony supposed to sell us PS3 nostalgia when it’s been cannibalizing the system for years?Sony announced its latest effort to combat Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass—but found itself relying on game libraries…ByWilliam Hughes4/01/22 12:00AMComments (50)Save
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?The gorgeous Tunic is powered by one hell of a great game ideaAndrew Shouldice’s beautiful, Nintendo-inspired adventure game makes its own instruction manual the most valuable…ByWilliam Hughes3/25/22 12:00AMComments (27)Save
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Stranger Of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origins’ meathead hero is even dumber than its titleSometimes you just need to play something loud and trashy and dumb as hellByWilliam Hughes3/18/22 12:00AMComments (52)Save
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Perfect Tides is as devastating and powerful as a perfectly crafted away messageOctopus Pie creator Meredith Gran’s first game is loaded with hyper-specific references, and hyper-relatable teenage…ByWilliam Hughes3/11/22 12:00AMComments (25)Save
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Mediocre shooter Crossfire X proves that Remedy is a top-tier game developerWhat if the developer behind Alan Wake and Control put out a game and nobody noticed?BySam Barsanti3/04/22 12:00AMComments (22)Save
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?5 (mostly) spoiler-free tips to help start you on your quest for the Elden RingThe Lands Between can be daunting, so here's some advice to help you get your bearings in From Software’s massive…ByWilliam Hughes2/25/22 12:00AMComments (29)Save
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Here are 5 things we wish we’d known before starting Horizon Forbidden West“Murder all raccoons,” and other practical advice from 60 hours with the new PlayStation exclusiveByWilliam Hughes2/18/22 12:00AMComments (33)Save
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?What does it take for a total newcomer to become The King Of Fighters?King Of Fighters XV is here, but how well does it treat players who are new to the series?BySam Barsanti2/11/22 10:00AMComments (16)Save
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Pokémon Legends: Arceus is great—when it shuts up and lets you catch some damn PokémonThe first “open world” Pokémon should let its amazing creatures and wide open spaces do the talkingByWilliam Hughes2/04/22 12:00AMComments (18)Save
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Escape Simulator is a near-perfect substitute for the real thingPine Studio's new escape rooms are the closest we've come to replicating the feeling of yelling at your friends…ByWilliam Hughes1/28/22 12:00AMComments (28)Save
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Idle games keep getting better, as our pandemic brains get worseLong periods of time at home turn out to be great for a genre of game that's all about planning, clicking, and…ByWilliam Hughes1/21/22 12:00AMComments (14)Save
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Dying Light 2 re-raises the “Are video games too damn long?” questionTechland's announcement that its new zombie parkour game takes "500 hours" to complete has re-ignited The DiscourseByWilliam Hughes1/14/22 12:00AMComments (54)Save
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Wordle isn't actually about the wordsViral word game Wordle is a triumph of pretty much everything except testing vocabulary skillsByWilliam Hughes1/07/22 12:00AMComments (83)Save