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When Yooka-Laylee was announced, a great deal was made about how the game was a product of former Rare Studios…

I’m standing atop a hill covered with leafy vegetation and gently swaying trees. Overlooking an enemy base, I send out…

If you thought Animal Crossing: New Horizons was the most hyped animal-based life-sim coming to the Nintendo Switch, you’ve got…

Rally driving is a terrifying prospect. For those of us who’ve never tried it or never been interested in trying…

Everyone’s mileage with Yu-Gi-Oh! will vary. For some, it was an essential ritual, a part of growing up. Many of…

Dark Souls has a lot to answer for. Since From Software’s cult RPG classic launched back in 2011, it’s spawned…

The great debate in video games for a while was as follows: should we pursue linear level-based design or open…

We all love our cars. It’s difficult to imagine a world in which we had to get around without them.…

For many, Japanese RPGs represent an impenetrable phenomenon. There are, of course, plenty of accessible entry points into this most…

Recently, there has been news circulating on the web about a game entitled Breakout: The Dark Prison. After extensive research…

When Kingdom Come: Deliverance was released back in 2018, it was one of the year’s most unexpected delights. Marrying an…

BioWare’s history as a developer is an interesting one. Although the company is perhaps best known for its narrative-driven RPGs…

Roguelike games are very, very tricky to get right. Any enterprising developer looking to create one of these games must…

Superheroes, we are told, do not exist in real life. Our caped crusaders and brooding vigilantes live only on the…

Go To War Anytime you hear the word “Battlelands” as a game player, you automatically know that you will be…

Where were you back in the late ‘90s? Were you, like many of us, still in school, eagerly watching the…

Consider, if you will, the strange and wonderful world of racing simulation games. From Codemasters’ F1 series to Slightly Mad…

When we were younger, the prospect of playing “augmented” video games was something that belonged exclusively to the distant future.…

There aren’t enough happy games in the world. Most video games these days revolve around gruff, grim people trying to…

Turn-based combat is a tricky beast. Get it right and you’ve got something like XCOM: Enemy Unknown, a thrilling, tense…

Fireproof Games’ award-winning The Room is a successful Switch port that just needed to happen. Originally released for mobile devices,…

When a particular game does what it does so well that it becomes a runaway financial and critical success, pretenders…

When revisiting old video gaming classics, there’s always a sense of dread that the reality won’t match up to your…

Did you know it’s been 9 years since the advent of Codemasters’ F1 series? That’s right – this series has…

Consider, if you will, a perfectly constructed piece of furniture. Ornate and exquisitely carved, with minute designs etched into high-quality…

Pokémon Quest is Nintendo and The Pokémon Company’s latest spin-off release within the infamous creature-catching franchise. It’s also their latest…

H1Z1 Auto Royale has recently released as a new game mode for the H1Z1 Battle Royale game on Steam. In…

The tycoon genre is one of the longest-running and most storied in video games. This is particularly true of those…

Metroid Prime is one of my old favorites, a game that I cherish from my childhood. On playing it again,…

With L.A. Noire being rereleased on the PS4, it is time to take another look at the detective game that…

While I have heard that video games based on movies often have difficulties, or aren’t made well, Star Wars: Revenge…