In a year filled with wonderfully realized open world games — The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, Nier: Automata — it’s difficult to wander around the world of Agents of Mayhem and not feel an overwhelming sense of missed [...]
At any given moment, LawBreakers can erupt into absolute, ridiculous, gravity-defying chaos. That delicious disorder, which cropped up time and again as we played developer Boss Key Productions’ multiplayer arena shooter for our LawBreakers review, has [...]
Nobody does “Survival Horror” like Shinji Mikami. The Evil Within 2, the upcoming sequel to Mikami’s bloody, brutal post-Resident Evil horror franchise, continues in the tradition he founded. It’s a third-person shooter that seeks to terrify by putting [...]
Can Uncharted survive without Nathan Drake? That’s the question developer Naughty Dog sets out to answer in Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, a side story that extends the franchise past Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, which officially brought his story to a close. [...]
In a world governed by logic and reason, Knack 2 shouldn’t exist. The original 2013 action-platformer launched alongside the PlayStation 4, and its moderate commercial success can largely be attributed to the lack of other exclusives on the market at the [...]
If anybody knows how to make a proper video game expansion, its Firaxis. Civilization V and XCOM: Enemy Unknown were both solid games at launch, but it was only with the addition of packs like Gods & Kings, Brave New World, andEnemy Within did [...]
The duel was not going particularly well for me. While working through this Absolver review, I’d gotten careless and underestimated another of the dozens of random, artificially intelligent fighters who populate the game’s world. I was about to die. I’d [...]
Everything about Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle looks bad on paper. The Nintendo Switch exclusive, which was developed by Ubisoft in consultation with Nintendo, combines the character of the mushroom kingdom and Ubisoft’s Minions-esque Rabbids, placing [...]
