Author: Ray Porreca

Graavik looks like a postcard. A small village nestled alongside a larger-than-life fjord, the town’s pastoral architecture and scenic landscape…

I can hear the earth speak. It cries out with a low rumble, begging for blood to anyone who knows…

During my first ten hours in Outward, I was mauled by wolves three different times, kidnapped by bandits twice, and…

Someday You’ll Return hinges on every parent’s worst fear: a missing child. It’s a primal, feel-it-deep-in-your-bones kind of terror that…

Most people are quick to tell you how much their job sucks. Maybe it’s because of some issues with their…

The first three chapters of A Plague Tale: Innocence paint a harrowing picture. Its vision of a 14th-century France is…

Warsaw has the benefit of hindsight. The upcoming role-playing game throws players into the chaos of life within the Nazi-occupied…

Ape Out, a Devolver Digital joint that puts players in the skull-crushing hands of a big ol’ gorilla, will release…

The recent Resident Evil 2 remake is Good. It’s scary and sometimes silly, an all-around engaging (and replayable!) reimagining of…

In the latest edition of the games industry’s collective campaign to release every game ever made on the Nintendo Switch,…

Fourteen days is a long time, especially when you’re inundated with deals, discounts, and bargains. And for game-hungry consumers, Steam’s…

I’ll never love a game more than Suikoden II, and I’m okay with that. It’s twenty years old now—a wisened,…

Here’s a funny thing about covering games: you either play a lot of them or you don’t play enough of…

To play Dark Souls is to seek victory in a land defined by failure. Lordran, the game’s fictional kingdom, is…

Holes get a bad rap. Their existence signifies an absence; the appearance of a hole means something can never be…

On paper, espionage and turn-based strategy games sound like uneasy allies. They represent two sides of a tactical coin. Counterintelligence…

It’s impossible for me to think of the summer months without my mind wandering towards the cover of These Days…

PUBG‘s third — and smallest — map, Sanhok, finally went live last week after months of active development and playtesting.…

[It’s Go Skateboarding Day! And to celebrate, we’re publishing this story about Tony Hawk’s Underground. It was originally meant to…

“We weren’t really satisfied with Hard West‘s depth; it always felt rushed. So this time around, we were constantly afraid…

Avalanche Studios’ Just Cause games are chaos incarnate. The open-world action series packs more explosions and high-speed stunts in a…

A few minutes before I played my first match of Gearbox Software’s Project 1v1, I was informed that Randy Pitchford…

After a hands-on demo with 10 Chambers Collective’s GTFO, I’m not sure how anyone could expect to complete a level…

We’ve all killed a lot of zombies. They’re video game fodder. Entry-level enemies. Shambling corpses with no discernible traits other…

Things aren’t going well in The Surge 2‘s dystopian landscape. Jericho City is a far cry from the dimly-lit industrial…

E3 is over, and Dtoid’s staff is scrambling to pack up and get the hell out of Los Angeles. We…

It’s fitting Rage 2‘s vision of post-apocalyptic life revolves around graffiti and brightly-haired punks who look as though they follow a…

I like to jot down a few notes before I write about a game. It helps me get my mind…

It’s easy to assume the heart of the Metro series lies in the tunnels that snake below Russia’s irradiated surface.…

During Sony’s E3 press conference, Remedy its newest project, Control. The reveal had plenty of mind-bending moments, some gunplay, and…