I admit, that doesn’t have nearly the same ring to it as my planned proclamation: “Just like INSIDE, only scarier!” And indeed, a full fifth of the way through Tarsier’s macabre thriller, the similarities to Playdead’s acclaimed side-scroller were so [...]
Dino Frontier (PlayStation VR [reviewed on PS4 Pro]) Developer: Uber Entertainment Publisher: Uber Entertainment Released: August 1, 2017 MSRP: $29.99 My enthusiasm did eventually ease up as I reached the conclusion, but Dino Frontier is an all-around [...]
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 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, [...]
