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Forza Horizon 6

10/10

Forza Horizon has become a bit of a staple for me. Having reviewed Forza Horizon 3, Forza Horizon 4, and Forza Horizon 5, watching the progression of what has arguably become my favourite racing game series (not Franchise, because the regular Forza games can bugger off), surpassing Gran Turismo. The...

Directive 8020

7/10

The Dark Pictures franchise has always touched on supernatural horror, but has remained ultimately grounded in the modern (or not-so-distant) past. This has changed with Directive 8020, a science fiction tale set a dozen light-years from Earth. After dropping the Dark Pictures anthology branding for the new title, has Supermassive Games...

Pokémon Champions

6.5/10

While most folks play Pokémon relatively casually, simply catching critters that look cool and building whatever team suits their fancy, there's always been a more hardcore, competitive side to the franchise. This competitive aspect of Pokémon has traditionally been rather difficult to get into, but the Poké powers that be...

Saros

8.5/10

Arjun, for all of the scattered bits and pieces of his backstory that Housemarque dripfeeds to the player, is a pretty awful protagonist when you take a step back from the sci-fi mythology and look over his shoulder at the way he interacts with his colleagues and chases after his...

Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred

9/10

Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred lands almost three years after the launch of the base game. As you may recall, Blizzard initially committed to annual expansions, which they almost accomplished with the first one, Vessel of Hatred, launched sixteen months after Diablo IV.

Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss

7/10

Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss is the latest Lovecraftian-themed game to hit the shelves, and while I can’t speak for its contemporaries, I have to imagine it stands towards the top of any ranking list, because it is, in many ways, an incredible experience. There’s a lot here for puzzle fans...

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream

8/10

Nintendo has two sides -- there's the company that makes broadly appealing, polished entertainment like Mario and Zelda, and then there's that weird side that makes stuff like Tomodachi Life. While the last Tomodachi Life was a surprising success, moving nearly 7 million units on the 3DS, not many expected...

Pragmata

7.5/10

On the eve of the current generation of consoles, CAPCOM announced a brand-new sci-fi intellectual property called PRAGMATA. It was the Japanese studio's first new global franchise since 2012's Dragon's Dogma, and a return to sci-fi for a studio historically more focused on other settings, such as zombie horror and...

Life is Strange: Reunion

7.8/10

Life is Strange: Reunion builds off the ending of Double Exposure but rather than letting players import their save file from the last game and create the choices organically this way, Deck Nine resorted to the tried and true method of letting players choose which (if any or all) of...

Crimson Desert

9/10

Open-world games are among the most popular video game genres nowadays, but it's undeniable that, among the many released each year, only a few achieve widespread success and enduring popularity. This isn't very surprising. While the idea of having huge maps filled with activities and secrets to discover is always...

Pokémon Pokopia

9/10

Pokémon spinoffs have plunged into a lot of different genres and styles of gameplay over the years, but the recently-released Pokémon Pokopia gloms onto several things at once, adding Minecraft, Dragon Quest Builders, and Animal Crossing to the pot along with some new ideas and, of course, plenty of cute...

Marathon

Unscored

For the first time in nearly a decade, there's a new Bungie game to play. Technically, it's an old Bungie series rebooted, but for a lot of Bungie fans (myself included), Marathon was not the series that introduced me to the storied developer.