Nintendo Switch
(THPS is out now for Epic Game Store, Xbox One, and PS4. Distributor provided review copy.) For gamers of a certain age, TONY HAWK’S PRO SKATER is pure, blissful comfort food. It’s sweet, warm nostalgia that you dip into at the end of a long day that reminds
Naruto
Arriving to the Nintendo Switch three years after its debut on other consoles, ROAD TO BORUTO is the definitive take on the Shippuden series. Featuring new characters from the recent film of the same name, BORUTO packs in new characters (to the tune of 106 rostered fighters); new costumes, and
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Picture the scene. You’re in a small loader with just enough room for a driver and a few packages. As you grasp the controls with your stumpy little arms, you feel the entire thing shift dangerously. It’s because your friend and delivery colleague has climbed on the roof.
Doom Eternal
Anyone growing up in the 90s will remember the original DOOM. Launched at the peak of organized media hysteria, the now quaint FPS pioneer became a magnet for unwanted attention. DOOM, alongside heavy metal and role-playing games, was blamed for inspiring both mass shootings and devil worship. Thankfully, rational voices
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There’s something to be said about perseverance. Most, if not all great feats of humanity are thanks to people that never gave up. Those that kept going despite failing over and over again, learning from each mistake along the way. I am not one of those people. To quote
Blasphemous
BLASPHEMOUS is all about grief. Something called The Miracle has left the world a ruined husk of what it once was. A bizarre mixture between a Stephen King inspired wasteland and the Middle Ages. Nightmarish creatures walk the expanse, some mutilated beyond belief, others oddly captivating. In the middle of
PC
The premise is terrific: It’s five years after the end of the Clone Wars and the purge of the Jedi Order. Most Jedi have been killed, and the rest have gone into exile across the galaxy. The Empire reigns with an iron fist. Deadly inquisitors and their leader, The
Death Stranding
There is a stroke of brilliance in Death Stranding, the new game from celebrated game design auteur Hideo Kojima, that has to do with how we connect with others. Your game is always online, hooked to a larger world of other Strands (the universe where the story takes place), and
PC
I’ve now played Red Dead Redemption 2 on both the Xbox One X and on PC. Both times have felt like a chore, and apart from occasional fleeting moments, I’ve yet to enjoy myself with either incarnation. Red Dead Redemption 2 is a game of “yes, but” moments.
PC
Welcome to the future, where corporations own not just you, but entire colonies and planets as well. Seventy years ago the frontier transport ship The Hope went missing and with it some fifty thousand settlers looking to start new lives on Terra 2. Believed lost for good, the collective of