Reviews

Gungrave G.O.R.E reviewed by Will Borger on PC, also available on Xbox and PlayStation. Much of Gungrave G.O.R.E feels like a missed opportunity. There’s a genuinely great combat system here, but the lack of variety and repetitive enemy design often let it down. The art and environments are fantastic and ooze style, but the story

Evil West reviewed by David Jagneaux on PC, also available on PlayStation and Xbox. This refreshing blast from the past from the developer of Shadow Warrior 3 nails the most important parts of its old-school, vampire-hunting action. The combat is smooth and its weapon options are ludicrously entertaining, but low enemy variety and overly similar

The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me reviewed by Tristan Ogilvie on PC. Also available on PlayStation and Xbox. “The Devil in Me’s twisted murder castle setting provides the literal foundations for what could have been an exciting horror adventure, but pacing problems and an insipid group of potential victims makes for a slaycation

Goat Simulator 3 reviewed by Travis Northup on PC, also available on PlayStation and Xbox. This sequel almost certainly won’t wow you with its level of polish or a deep, meaningful narrative, but sometimes it’s a good idea to turn your brain off and buck your hooves into an old lady’s face while she fires

The Sega Genesis Mini 2 is a great collection of 61 games, including some rarities and never-before-seen ports and updates. However, a dull controller and a UI a little too similar to the original brings down an otherwise delightful trip down memory lane. #IGN #Gaming

Somerville reviewed on PC by Ryan McCaffrey. Also available on Xbox. Somerville follows its own unique path within the puzzle-adventure genre. That path isn’t always a smooth one, with camera annoyances and physics wonkiness occasionally serving as a pebble in your shoe while solving its series of pleasantly challenging puzzles, and the story is more

Pentiment reviewed by Leana Hafer on PC. Also available on Xbox. “As an engrossing 15 to 20-hour adventure game, a chronicle of a small town and its people in turbulent times, a reverent celebration of the finer details of Late Medieval history, and a clever detective story in which straight answers are hard to come

Among Us VR reviewed on Meta Quest 2 by Henry Stockdale. Also available on PC. Among Us VR is a great ground-up reworking of a classic social game that feels right at home in virtual reality, remaining faithful to Innersloth’s hit while feeling fresh in a new perspective and with a few sneaky new tricks

Resident Evil Re:Verse reviewed by Will Borger on Xbox Series X|S, also available on Xbox One, PlayStation, and PC. There’s a good multiplayer game somewhere within Resident Evil Re:Verse, but what’s here now is in desperate need of balance changes and more content. This third-person deathmatch that was added alongside Resident Evil: Village is an

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Sonic Frontiers reviewed by Travis Northup on PlayStation 5, also available on Xbox Series X|S and PC. Sonic Frontiers is a delightfully weird and experimental evolution of the Sonic games so many of us grew up with. Its expansive islands are filled with so much variety and pieces of Sonic history, from classic platforming stages

Resident Evil Village: The Winters’ Expansion reviewed on PlayStation 5 by Taylor Lyles. Also available on PC, PS4, and Xbox. The Winters’ Expansion is mostly an underwhelming follow-up to Resident Evil Village. While Mercenaries Additional Orders has some valuable new maps and characters that help flesh out the time-attack mode and give Lady Dimitrescu another

The Entropy Centre reviewed on PC by Leana Hafer. Also available on Xbox and PlayStation. The Entropy Centre is a more than competent riff on a Portal-style first-person physics puzzler, chock full of brain teasers that manage to have satisfying solutions that made me feel like a big brain time wizard, although it never realizes

Marvel Snap reviewed by Cam Shea on iOS with iPad Gen 9 (2021). Also available on Android and PC (Early Access). “Marvel Snap upends the collectible card game genre with some truly fresh ideas, impressive strategic depth, wonderfully slick presentation, and a fantastic use of the Marvel licence. Its high variance gameplay can be frustrating

WRC Generations reviewed by Luke Reilly on PlayStation 5. Also available on PlayStation 4, Xbox, PC, and Nintendo Switch. “When you get into the guts of it, WRC Generations is by no means a drastic shake-up on its quality predecessors, even if there have been some small but welcome improvements to the career mode and

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 reviewed on PC by Seth G. Macy. Also available on Xbox and PlayStation. Modern Warfare 2 is the most fun I’ve had in CoD multiplayer in a good long while. It’s taken what was already a mechanically solid multiplayer game and improved on it with a weapon customization system

Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord reviewed on PC by Jon Bolding. Also available on Xbox and PlayStation. It’s good that Mount & Blade: Bannerlord’s combat is fun, because everything that’s not a fight is just a bit of color before you get caught up in a brawl somewhere or decide to kick off a new

The Valiant reviewed on PC by Luke Reilly. “The Valiant is a serviceable, squad-based RTS that serves up some usually well-balanced sword-clanging action for its heroes and their small bands of merry men, though it wears a bit thin once it’s evident how repetitive and backtrack-heavy the battles can get. There’s a sturdy story to