Next month, the long-in-development Avengers game comes to PlayStation 4 (it'll come to PS5 when the console launches, too), and there's a special sort of catch for Sony gamers: When Spider-Man arr...
2020-08-07 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Complacency?
2020-08-05 18:25:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Meet Richard (or Rick!) Hoeg. Mr. Hoeg is a Michigan-based lawyer who has made quite the name for himself in recent years in some hardcore portions of the gaming industry. Why? Because he gives roc...
2020-08-04 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
We may not have any idea when PlayStation 5 is coming out, what it'll cost, or even if many of us will be able to get our hands on one at launch. But what we do know -- thanks to a recent consumer ...
2020-07-31 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Whether in television, movies, books, or games, it's always hard to follow-up a smash-hit with a worthy sequel. But publisher 2K endeavored to do just that when it launched BioShock 2 in 2010, doin...
2020-07-31 15:59:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Getting ducks in a row.
2020-07-29 16:38:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Last week, Microsoft unleashed an hour-long showcase revealing (or otherwise elaborating on) a bunch of its upcoming games: First, second, and third party alike. Some of these games are coming to P...
2020-07-28 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
We already know PlayStation 5 was primed to provide a technological quantum leap to AAA projects, but what it'll be capable of in its first round of games is fairly surprising. Sony-owned Insomniac...
2020-07-24 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
For nearly five decades, Rodney Dangerfield was an American comedy legend. But it was in the 1980s that he rose to mainstream prominence not through his stand-up act as popularized on late-night TV...
2020-07-23 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Matty goes to 13th century Japan. That can change a man.
2020-07-22 16:25:27 +0000 UTC View Post
When did side quests become such an integral part of game design? Back in the day, side quests were truly that -- often scarce, usually unnecessary, and mostly additive -- but today, they are often...
2020-07-21 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
It was a really big week for Ubisoft. They revealed (the admittedly leaked) Far Cry 6, stamped a couple of release dates on Watch Dogs: Legion and Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and gave us some more d...
2020-07-17 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Robert Eggers' 2015 debut film The Witch isn't exactly old, but its subject matter certainly is. Taking place in the early 1630s in New England -- a full 60 years before the Salem Witch Trials -- T...
2020-07-16 16:40:19 +0000 UTC View Post
An orderly exit.
2020-07-15 19:42:40 +0000 UTC View Post
As you know, we didn't feel like our two hour-long spoilercast and review discussion for The Last of Us: Part II from a couple of weeks ago gave us enough time to explore the game to our satisfacti...
2020-07-14 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Until Fortnite, the primary fuel that made Epic Games run was Unreal Engine, its ubiquitous and flexible framework on which hundreds of notable, successful, and popular titles have run for more tha...
2020-07-10 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Ignorance is bliss, or so the saying goes. But when we're kids, ignorance is also a way of life. In our tiny worlds, everything was magnified or understated: The glorious ups, our mundane everyday ...
2020-07-09 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Final Fantasy Tactics fans have been more than patient. It's been a staggering 22 years since FFT launched in the west, and in the time since, it's been pretty quiet. Yes, we got a couple of handhe...
2020-07-07 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Now that we've gotten a limited look at next-gen, a few major unknowns remain. Perhaps the biggest mystery -- apart from the cost of PlayStation 5 itself -- is how expensive AAA software running on...
2020-07-03 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
We recently lost American filmmaker Joel Schumacher to cancer at the age of 80. With a diverse filmography dating back to the '70s and running through to just a few years ago, it's hard to put Schu...
2020-07-02 17:54:40 +0000 UTC View Post
The Last of Us: Part II isn't only one of the PlayStation 4's swan songs; it's also likely going to go down as its best-selling exclusive, when all is said and done. And there's good reason for tha...
2020-07-01 03:14:19 +0000 UTC View PostHey All,
I hope you're all doing well, that you're enjoying your summer (if you're in the northern hemisphere!), that you and your families and friends are staying safe, and you're having a ...
As you probably know, Chris has a very specific arcane power: He can seemingly wish games of his choosing into existence. So when Crash Bandicoot 4 was revealed, it appeared that the planets aligne...
2020-06-26 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
When Mass Effect launched on Xbox 360 in 2007, it promised to be not only one of the most ambitious RPGs of all time, but the entry point to one of the most ambitious gaming trilogies ever. Designe...
2020-06-25 17:16:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Anticipation.
2020-06-24 18:58:58 +0000 UTC View Post
A not insignificant portion of hardcore PlayStation fans long for the return of the Jak and Daxter series. Yet, the franchise has remained dormant for more than a decade, and Naughty Dog itself has...
2020-06-23 16:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Publisher Electronic Arts gets a lot of grief -- much of it earned -- but it also announces something truly exciting and different on occasion. Star Wars Squadrons is one such game, a dogfighter in...
2020-06-19 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Writer and director Quentin Tarantino has long been a divisive and controversial filmmaker, primarily because of his seeming, unapologetic glorification of gore. But something deeper typically rest...
2020-06-18 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
In America as of late, racial tensions have been running high, and while there's plenty of room for the political and social discourse surrounding recent events, it makes a lot of sense to explore ...
2020-06-16 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
It's hard to believe, but the time has finally come, for Sony hasn't only shown PlayStation 5 games galore, but PlayStation 5 itself. That's right: The box. Now that we know what the console actual...
2020-06-12 05:52:17 +0000 UTC View Post