Aven Colony Score: 5.0 Platform: Win, Xbox One, PS4 Publisher: Team17 Developer: Mothership Entertainment LLC Release Date: 2017-07-25 Video games allow me to inhabit exciting roles that I’m denied by the natural order of humdrum existence. In the [...]
BY STEVEN PETITE Posted on 05.23.17 Research Center: Injustice 2 Critics and fans tend to overstate the cinematic qualities of video games. We claim, probably too frequently, that “you could mistake this for the real thing.” This kind of talk is often [...]
BY MIKE EPSTEIN Posted on 06.28.17 Research Center: No Man’s Sky No Man’s Sky is a massive experiment in procedurally generated game-making. Developer Hello Games used an algorithm to spawn a game world of unprecedented size and scope. It’s packed with [...]
BY WILL FULTON Posted on 07.24.17 Research Center: Pyre Any critic will tell you that the longer you spend reviewing a particular medium, the harder it is for it to surprise you. Giving credence to the old adage “there’s nothing new under the sun,” [...]
BY WILL FULTON Posted on 02.20.17 Research Center: Horizon Zero Dawn “Hunt robot dinosaurs with a bow and arrow as a neolithic badass who looks like a stunt double for Game of Thrones’ Ygritte.” That was essentially the message we got from Horizon Zero [...]
BY MIKE EPSTEIN Posted on 03.02.17 Research Center: Nintendo The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, is the flagship of the Nintendo Switch’s day one launch lineup. It is also, frankly, a behemoth of a game — More [...]
On the surface, Pikmin is one of Nintendo’s most adorable creations. A tiny spaceman called Captain Olimar marshals an army of even tinier plant sprites which swarm and scurry around an environment that looks, to him, like an exotic alien planet, [...]
Visual novels and dating simulators are strange beasts, and the intersection of those genres with comedy often results in parody. Dream Daddy sounds exactly like that—like it’s going to riff off and satire both the simplification of relationships down to [...]
