Reviews

The Analogue Pocket solves the limitations of Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, and other handhelds of yore, and it does so with a familiar but distinct style you don’t find with emulation-based solutions. It’s the best possible way to enjoy your handheld gaming collection. #IGN #Analogue

Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon is a wonderful spin-off that combines block-falling puzzle and roguelite mechanics in remarkably clever ways, resulting in yet another excellent entry in the Shovel Knight series. Reviewed by Mitchell Saltzman #IGN #ShovelKnight

Reviewed by Tristan Ogilvie on PC. Also available on PlayStation 5. “Terminator: Resistance Annihilation Line tightens its combat to bring a slightly more compelling challenge to its firefights, but fails to inject any new ideas to spark any real life behind its glowing red eyes. It certainly looks great, and mowing down robotic hordes can

Chorus reviewed on PC by Dan Stapleton. Also available on Xbox, PlayStation, and Stadia. Chorus does an excellent job of cutting out the dull parts of space dogfighting, getting right to the flashy fun of blasting through enemy fighters and capital ships with superpowered abilities. Its large and pretty map is filled with fleshed-out side

Halo Infinite Single-Player Campaign reviewed by Ryan McCaffrey on Xbox Series X. Also available on Xbox One and PC. Halo has meant a lot to me over the past 20 years. From first landing on the ring in Halo 1 to the surprise Arbiter arc in Halo 2 to being heartbroken by Halo 5’s abysmal

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun – Aiko’s Choice reviewed by Leana Hafer on PC. Aiko’s Choice is a polished, challenging, and welcome – though a bit short – standalone expansion to the exceptional Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun. #IGN #Gaming #ShadowTactics

Ruined King: A League of Legends Story reviewed by Jada Grifin on PlayStation 5. Also available on PlayStation 4, Xbox, PC, and Switch. #IGN #Gaming

Fights in Tight Spaces reviewed by Jarrett Green on PC. Against popular thinking, the slower, methodical pace of Fights in Tight Spaces’ card combat recreates that feeling of systematically dismantling a room full of goons that all the best action movies like Kingsman: The Secret Service present so well. #IGN #Gaming #FightsInTightSpaces

Reviewed by Cam Shea on PC. Also available on PlayStation. “Solar Ash took me a little over seven hours to beat on normal difficulty, and while some of the anomalies and bosses were less entertaining than others, and there were moments of frustration with the controls, this was a world I had a good time

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Happy Home Paradise DLC reviewed on Nintendo Switch by Taylor Lyles. Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise is an exceptional piece of post-launch DLC. While a slow burn in terms of what items and facilities you unlock throughout the expansion, Happy Home Paradise offers a lot of creative freedom

Nerf Legends reviewed by Travis Northup on Xbox Series X, also available on PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox One. Nerf Legends is a broken, painful slog of an FPS that you shouldn’t even consider playing as a joke. #IGN #Gaming #NerfLegends

Halo Infinite Multiplayer reviewed by Stella Chung on PC. Also available on Xbox. It’s so nice when a game actually lives up to sky-high expectations! Halo Infinite has been one of the most anticipated games out there since it was first announced three years ago, and for its multiplayer component to so fully deliver on

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl reviewed by Rebekah Valentine on Nintendo Switch. Like the themes of its story, Game Freak’s newest Pokemon remakes (developed by ILCA) are solid and enduring – leaning on the past, with all of its triumphs and tripwires. #IGN #Gaming #Pokemon

Jurassic World Evolution 2 reviewed by Leana Hafer on PC. Also available on Xbox and PlayStation. While I can’t quite endorse Jurassic World Evolution 2 as a robust park management sim, the area where it puts its main focus – the dinosaurs! – is engaging. Being able to hop into a tour looping around the

Battlefield 2042 Review by Stella Chung on PC. Also available on Xbox and PlayStation. Battlefield 2042 tries to do a lot, but only some of its experiments are worth celebrating. The 128 player matches of its All-Out Warfare modes definitely feel like too much for their own good a lot of the time, but its

Reviewed on PlayStation 5 by Tristan Ogilvie. Also available on Xbox, PC, and Nintendo Switch. “There’s no question that the three games in this GTA Trilogy are all-time classics, but they’ve unfortunately been remastered with a ham-hand instead of a Love Fist. New features are slight and only partially implemented, visuals are mixed, performance is

Xbox Series X Review Update: One Year Later by Nic Vargas, narrated by Ryan McCaffrey. In the first year of the Xbox Series X, Microsoft has struggled to capitalize on its best-in-class power with a packed lineup of exclusives, but among the games it has delivered are some real winners, including Microsoft Flight Simulator and

Reviewed by Tristan Ogilvie on Xbox Series X. Also available on PlayStation and PC. “Sherlock Holmes Chapter One presents an interesting set of mysteries to solve, but its open-world setting doesn’t really elevate its familiar investigation gameplay to a substantial enough degree, and its combat sections are uniformly dull and repetitive. There are certainly bursts