19 Best Zombie Games of All Time
This article was previously published in 2018 as the “13 Best Zombie Games of All Time.” As we enter the…
Video Games Have a Dead Football Player Problem
I don’t quite remember when I realized I was playing football with dead people. Tecmo Super Bowl has been a…
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: 7 Awesome Costume Origins
Smash Brothers digs deep into the celebrated lore of Nintendo. Half the fun of playing Smash is unearthing every reference,…
Why 2018 Was the Best Year For Video Games… Ever
Another year, another reflection on another batch of video games… but this year is different. Because 2018 was the best…
How Historically Accurate is Red Dead Redemption 2?
Watch its unimaginably long credit roll and you’ll spot a number of researchers whose roles were dedicated to making sure…
Earth Defense Force 5 Review
In real life, I don’t like creepy crawly things. I’m terrified of spiders, appalled by roaches, scared stupid of wasps,…
10 Best NES Games of All Time
The NES library is ridiculously good. A lot of crap was shoveled onto the platform throughout the course of its…
13 Best Zombie Games of All Time
Zombies make marvelous antagonists. They’re plodding dark mirrors parodying our society’s short sightedness. They’re plentiful and emotionless eaters of flesh,…
The History of Fortnite… So Far
Fortnite rules the world of modern cross-platform gaming, but it wasn’t all that long ago that it seemed we knew…
Luigi's Mansion for 3DS Review
Genre distinctions are supposed to exist for our convenience, but Luigi’s Mansion defies them all. It exists somewhere between a…
How Dragon Quest's Creator Invented JRPGs
I think most of us have an informal mental list of people we wish they could meet, and I think…
Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age Review
Dragon Quest XI is a distilled, energetic, mathematically elegant epic that takes what I love most about traditional dungeon crawlers…
Grandia and Grandia II Coming to Nintendo Switch This Winter
Venerable Japanese RPG series Grandia is coming to Switch this winter. According to a statement by publisher GungHo, Grandia and…
Torchlight Frontiers: Exclusive First Hands-On
Speedy, lively, bright, and action-packed, Torchlight Frontiers impressed me. I almost resented the relatively compressed size of the demo slice,…
Quake Champions Is Now Free-to-Play, and Here's What That Means
At today’s QuakeCon 2018 keynote, id Studio Director Tim Willits announced that the multiplayer PC shooter Quake Champions is going…
Torchlight Frontiers to Double Down on Pets, Co-op Play
The venerable dungeon crawler Torchlight is returning with Torchlight Frontiers, a new shared world action RPG coming to PS4, Xbox…
10 (Unintentionally) Terrifying Video Games
Video games can be plenty scary. I’ve thrown my controller in the air and screamed with unadulterated terror at survival-horror…
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is the Castlevania Game You've Been Waiting For
Is it theft if you steal from yourself? The most recent demo of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night certainly begs…
Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age is an Absolute Delight
My brief time with Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age was a delight, an airy romp through a…