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I’m going to start this review of Final Fantasy XIV’s latest expansion, Shadowbringers, with a complaint and what is probably the biggest issue with this expansion, and FFXIV in general. It’s an issue I don’t have a solution for, but hopefully, the development team can one day figure a way...
It’s been a good year for creative video-games, with Media Molecule giving us the Dreams beta on PS4 and Microsoft churning out another huge Minecraft update. The sequel to one of the GOAT level-editors, Super Mario Maker 2, has returned to blow everyone away with new ways to make and play...
The first few moments of F1 2019 suggest that we’re in for a drastically different experience this year. Before you even get your hands on a Formula 1 steering wheel, you’re thrown into the world of F2, a second division of sorts that acts as a feeder system for the...
At first glance, it is entirely possible to mistake Citizens of Space’s toon-ish look and setting for a PG-rated video game version of Rick and Morty. In reality, it is actually a loose sequel to the 2015 JRPG, Citizens of Earth.
There have been many attempts at Lovecraft-inspired games over the years, but few have managed to accurately nail the author’s unique brand of cosmic horror. It’s not an easy genre to pull off by any stretch, but Frogwares’ The Sinking City might just be the best Lovecraftian game on the...
7-year-old Chris would have been proud of 25-year-old me. I’d finally conquered Crash Team Racing’s Adventure Mode, putting Nitros Oxide back in his place and saving the world from being turned into Oxide’s plaything. I’d nailed shortcuts, perfected the drift boost mechanism, and even unlocked a neat Red Panda skin...
There is no shortage of great action-platformers in the market today, so when another one comes along, it better bring the heat. Luckily, the folks at Deadtoast Entertainment’s latest game My Friend Pedro puts its foot on the gas and never lets up.
If you ask any modern hardcore JRPG fan who is making the best games in the genre today, they are going to rattle off a short list of developers, which will undoubtedly include Atlus and Square Enix. Keep going down this hypothetical list, though, and you’re likely to find one...
After being a PC exclusive for some time now, Phoenix Labs’ newest action-RPG, Dauntless, has made its way to consoles and, in a world that already has Monster Hunter: World, it seems to be a different take on the monster-hunting genre.
I’m just going to get this out of the way from the off. Outer Wilds may well be my favorite game I’ve played so far in 2019. That doesn’t mean it isn’t without its shortcomings, which become particularly prevalent as your space adventure comes to a close, but push through...
When I started Layers of Fear 2, I was thrust into what looked like a hotel corridor that was flooding. Where was I? Did I miss something important? But then I picked up a mirror and received my first jump scare.
Total War: Three Kingdoms begins in the year 190 CE, in war-ravaged China, and the Han Empire is in ruins. The Tyrant, Dong Zhuo, has taken the child-emperor captive, and in doing so holds the fate of millions in his cruel grasp.
