Let’s face it: It was pretty much impossible for the games of 2018 to live up to the games of 2017. Like 2007, 1998, and 1993 before it, that’s a year we’re going to be talking about for ages, with loads of boundary-pushing releases. But as we looked back at the games we’ve lost ourselves in over these last six…
Spoiler Space offers thoughts on, and a place to discuss, the plot points we can’t reveal in our official reviews. Fair warning: Major plot points for God Of War—from the ending to every revelation and tease—will be revealed below.
Here’s what happens when you become a dad: You start to relate to other dads. That’s it. There’s no epiphany, no sweeping change that comes over your heart and inspires you to grow a mustache and get into craft beer. You just relate to the dad now. You see a home-insurance commercial about a stay-at-home dad and you…
As far as corporate talking points for video games go, it’s unusual for a publisher to tout that its action epic is presented as if it were shot in one continuous take. Boasting about the sheer size of a game’s world and the dozens of hours of stuff to do in it? Sure. Shouting to the masses that its battles are tense…
“The new God Of War is not another gritty reboot of an aging cartoonish hit. It’s a transformative, introspective sequel, taking up the Herculean task of shunting a series that, for as thrilling as its spectacle was, epitomized an embarrassing adolescent phase of games into something resembling actual maturity. It’s a…
The new God Of War bears all the hallmarks of a series reboot. There’s no number at the end of its title. It’s retained the series’ main character but changed the time, place, and tone completely, trading out the edgy ’90s-comic-book look and feel of the Grecian originals for the gray, grim retreats of Norse myth.…
With new games of all sizes filling real and digital shelves every week, it can be near impossible for anyone to keep up. So during the first week of every month, we’ll be here to help with a curated selection of new, notable games we think should be on everyone’s radar for the month ahead.
There’s a lot of new stuff packed into the latest trailer for Sony’s upcoming God Of War revival. We already knew the not-quite-reboot would pick up centuries after we last saw Kratos, the angry Greek dude who went on a god-killing rampage after they betrayed him, and would find him settled down in Scandinavia,…
The feeling that springs up when looking out over the sea of games currently scheduled to land in 2018 is uncertainty. Uncertainty because some of its heaviest hitters, like God Of War and Monster Hunter: World, are ambitious reimaginings of well-established series. Uncertainty because Electronic Arts’ year-long…
Last night it was Sony’s turn to lead the parade of glitzy pre-E3 press briefings, and the showcase delivered a solid, if largely unexciting look at what’s coming to PlayStation 4. The heaviest hitters are still a long way out, as most of the conference’s tentpole games and surprise announcements won’t be launching…
We’ve already talked about my favorite games of E3 (part one, part two), but there’s plenty more going on at the Electronic Entertainment Expo than just game demos. The atmosphere of the show can be just as interesting as any game that’s on display and it so often goes unmentioned. E3 might be shrinking, but it’s…
Another year of the Electronic Entertainment Expo is in the books, and after wading through the video game trade show’s annual blitz of marketing noise and visual spectacle, a few games stuck out in my notebook as especially promising titles to keep your eye on this year, next year, and possibly beyond. Part one of my…
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