Where Yooka-Laylee attempted to revive Rare’s Banjo-Kazooie formula, A Hat in Time[official site] strikes at a different vein of nostalgia. The 3D platformer attempts to split the difference between the open-ended adventuring of Super Mario 64 and the [...]
PROS Refined and challenging combat Hilarious references from the show A legitimately captivating plot Clever boss fights Freeform leveling system CONS A few bugs The story is slow to start Way back in 1998, Acclaim Entertainment published the first South [...]
The Evil Within 2 revels in its grotesqueness. Inside its opening five minutes, you’re forced to watch a young girl burn to death. Later, you repeatedly observe a man’s head explode by gunshot. Then you witness a scene so horrifically graphic [...]
It’s obligatory for every article on Overgrowth to start with a bit on how long it has been in development, so here’s mine: When Wolfire Games first started work on the rabbit beat ’em up, George W. Bush and Gordon Brown were still in [...]
Since it began airing in 1997, South Park has challenged what a television show should be. It killed a recurring character every episode during its early years, and had a series retrospective clip show episode in the middle of its second season. Series [...]
The Good:A wide variety of scenes to explore and plenty of puzzles to keep you occupied; a coherent story provides nice support and build-up to a clever twist. The Bad:Super easy puzzles, especially with the aid of an ever-present journal; obstacles are [...]
Review by Matt C. Mel Kishida deserves to be a household name. Even at a relatively young age, he’s made his mark as a character designer with the likes of the Atelier Arland trilogy and Hanasaku Iroha. Fantastic as those are, Kishida’s taken things to a [...]
2014’s The Evil Within was a game stuck between two generations. Created with both seventh and eighth generation consoles in mind, the game didn’t quite take advantage of the added horsepower of the PS4 and Xbox One. With The Evil Within 2, Tango [...]