For all its melodramatic brilliance, the Yakuza/Like A Dragon series has long carried a recurring blemish—substories and mini-games that veer from campy charm into outright cringe, usually involving
Hollow Knight: Silksong is undoubtedly a labor of love, one full of strong, opinionated choices and intentional friction. Unfortunately, some of those choices are ambiently annoying to me personally, tiny little irritants in an otherwise unspeakably beautiful and once–in-a-generation platformer.
Gaming, at its core, is just a series of puzzles: some meditative, some maddening. I'm Not A Robot splits the difference, turning the mundane act of proving your
Remember the mimics from Prey, those creepy masses of tentacles that could disguise themselves as shoes and coffee cups so they could get the drop on you? Henry Halfhead is
I didn’t watch last night’s Emmys, where Apple TV’s comedy show The Studio cleaned up with a record-breaking number of awards. I did, however, watch the entirety
It's only been a few months since I wrote about the excellent 9 Kings, a roguelike 'Kingdom Sim' that had you juggling base-building with tower defence.
Lately, every time I boot up my PC to play a game I end up playing Fresh Tracks, a fantasy skiing rhythm roguelike where you dodge obstacles, slash through bad
Herdling, a new game out today by FAR developer Okomotive, is one of those games with a made-up word title that nevertheless lets you know exactly what it is. In