GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Darkest Dungeon II's full release is a bitter, brutal cause for celebrationTwo years after entering Early Access, the sequel to indie gaming's dark delight has finally released a gorgeous,…ByWilliam HughesPublishedMay 12, 2023Comments (19)
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?One of 2022's best games gets a slim but gorgeous expansion with The Spider Of LankaThe Case Of The Golden Idol is back with three more esoteric, beautifully ugly mysteries for amateur detectives to…ByWilliam HughesPublishedMay 5, 2023Comments (6)
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?7 smaller games for when you're burnt out on huge, open-world mayhemSick of Dead Island? Burnt out on Horizon? All done Survivin' as a Jedi? Here are the small games to help take the…ByWilliam HughesPublishedApril 28, 2023Comments (1)
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores feels trapped in the apocalyptic past14 months later, Horizon Forbidden West finally gets an expansion—and it certainly feels like more Horizon Forbidden…ByWilliam HughesPublishedApril 21, 2023Comments (23)
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Meet Your Maker is a brilliant, crafty spin on multiplayer murderMeet Your Maker's premise is simple: Every trap-filled fortress you scramble through was created by another player,…ByWilliam HughesPublishedApril 14, 2023Comments (9)
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?3 hours previewing Star Wars Jedi: Survivor reveal a worthy sequel to Fallen OrderCal Kestis is back, with a bigger, more thrilling adventure in that galaxy long ago and far awayByWilliam HughesPublishedApril 7, 2023Comments (16)
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Damning with faint praise: Diablo IV is the smartest Diablo game in more than a decadeOur trip through Diablo IV's recent beta weekends reveals a smarter, better Diablo—but will it be enough to hold our…ByWilliam HughesPublishedMarch 31, 2023Comments (3)
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?5 things we wish we'd known before starting the Resident Evil 4 remakeA spoiler-free starter guide to this weekend's new-old version of gaming classic Resident Evil 4ByWilliam HughesPublishedMarch 24, 2023Comments (9)
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Wild Hearts manages to make something fresh and exciting out of pilfered partsFrom the creators of the Dynasty Warriors games, Wild Hearts liberally lifts the structure of Capcom's Monster…ByWilliam HughesPublishedMarch 17, 2023Comments (6)
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty "innovates" by finding new games to steal fromThe latest game from the Nioh team incorporates Sekiro and Dynasty Warriors into the franchise's usual Dark Souls-rif…ByWilliam HughesPublishedMarch 10, 2023Comments (18)
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?What the hell does an Elden Ring DLC even look like?Earlier this week, FromSoftware finally confirmed it's working on an expansion to its 2022 bestseller Elden RingByWilliam HughesPublishedMarch 3, 2023Comments (18)
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Oh, hey, PowerWash Simulator lets you clean up for war criminals nowWith its Final Fantasy VII Remake expansion, PowerWash Simulator lets you clean up the villains' messesByWilliam HughesPublishedFebruary 24, 2023Comments (12)
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?With Like A Dragon: Ishin!, one of gaming's best series reclaims a "lost" installmentThe series formerly known in the West as Yakuza goes back in time (in multiple ways) for a remake of a 2014…ByWilliam HughesPublishedFebruary 17, 2023Comments (11)
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Oh, hey, Nintendo suddenly noticed it has one of the best handheld libraries of all timeZelda, Metroid, Etrian Odyssey, Ghost Trick, and more: Some of Nintendo's best handheld oddballs are finally getting…ByWilliam HughesPublishedFebruary 10, 2023Comments (15)
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?7 Days To End With You makes translation a (fun!) life-or-death matterThe new(ish) translation-based game from first-time studio Lizardry is a fascinating look at how language controls…ByWilliam HughesPublishedFebruary 3, 2023Comments (6)
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Justin Roiland's Squanch Games just lost a CEO, but has everything to gainSquanch Games is now simultaneously reeling from the success of its first hit game, High On Life—and the departure…ByWilliam HughesPublishedJanuary 27, 2023Comments (58)
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider asks: When are retro games too retro?Some great visuals can't disguise the fact that it's easy for indie-retro games to ape the games of yesteryear too…ByWilliam HughesPublishedJanuary 20, 2023Comments (30)
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Forspoken's demo is great, even if the game itself might not beWe're not entirely sold on new fantasy-parkour RPG Forspoken, but it's hard to fault the size and breadth of the…ByWilliam HughesPublishedJanuary 13, 2023Comments (5)
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Alice In Borderland is a fun, bloody reminder that there's no "keeping politics out of games"Netflix's latest streaming sensation is a surprisingly thoughtful treatise on the art of creating games—and neck…ByWilliam HughesPublishedJanuary 6, 2023Comments (14)
GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?GamesWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?Is Yakuza gaming's greatest Christmas-time franchise?Nothing says "happy holidays" like beating up a thousand thugs in a neon-drenched corner of JapanByWilliam HughesPublishedDecember 30, 2022Comments (15)