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MLB The Show 26
The annualized nature of sports video games means that there’s a lot carried over between games, and it’s only every few years that fans notice major improvements or changes. With MLB The Show 26, San Diego Studio is getting dangerously close to creating another frustrating annualized sports franchise, but there’s...
I always have an anxiousness about a 2D platformer going 3D. I fear that while it might look cool and handle well at the outset, the jump to the third dimension of level design and gimmicks always comes with some frustrating growing pains. I enjoyed the original Super Meat Boy,...
Screamer
In the 90s, Virgin Interactive published a game called Screamer, a PC racing game from Italian developer Graffiti that was praised for how it combined a realistic control style with the exaggerated animations of an arcade game. Screamer became a short-lived series, and Graffiti rebranded as Milestone, going on to...
Crimson Desert
Before Crimson Desert, I’d never played a game I’d describe as maximalist. Crimson Desert is a maximalist video game, defined by its excess, straining against the confines of an open world video game and perhaps the medium itself. It is stunningly ambitious, and often worse for it. It invites you...
John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando, as the name implies, looks to put a unique spin on the zombie genre with the help of one of horror’s greatest directors. While it doesn’t do much to separate itself from what came before, there’s fun to be had in Toxic Commando, especially if you’ve...
WWE 2K26
Spring is just around the corner. Want to know how I can tell? Well, besides looking at a calendar, temperatures are rising, rain is replacing snow, we’re on the Road to WrestleMania, and just over a week remains until the release of WWE 2K26, the latest and greatest installment of...
Scott Pilgrim EX
I’ve been to Canada only a handful of times, and I’m a little fuzzy on how things are up there. Thankfully, Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim is there to remind me on the semi-regular. It’s a whimsical place of comically unfortunate relationships, continuous battles, never-ending retro nostalgia, chiptune-infused rock music,...
For a genre as tried and true as survival horror, I'm a big fan of fresh settings. I enjoy perspectives that I don't get to see very often and that's certainly the case with Crisol: Theater of Idols. From developer Vermila Studios and publisher Blumhouse Games, Crisol presents a unique...
Resident Evil’s family tree contains many branches. Going back almost 30 years, you’ve got classic survival horror, action survival horror, spinoffs (most not worth remembering), and the new era of games that began with 2017’s Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. Some games focus more on one style of play than the...
I still remember how hyped I was when BlazBlue first came out, all the way back in 2009. I was at my peak interest in fighting games, Guilty Gear was on some kind of hiatus, and this was the next best thing with its own cool twists. Eventually, I fell...
Mario Tennis Fever kicks off the Switch 2 era of Mario sports games with a fresh take on the long-running series. This time, Fever Rackets are the hot new feature, spicing up gameplay with unique effects that can be dealt to either side of the court. Beneath all that, though,...
Romeo is a Dead Man is a collage of different ideas and mechanics, textures and styles, none of which alone are exceptional, and that doesn’t change when they’re mixed together. Even standing back a few feet and taking a macro view does little to help form a cohesive piece of...