Reviews

Raccoon City is the heart of the Resident Evil series, its setting, its fever-gripped immune system, its fried nerves. First introduced in the opening minutes…

In Nioh 2, the picturesque hills of 16th-century Japan are patrolled not just by soldiers, this being a time of war, but by monsters—as…

One of the nifty side effects of Doom Eternal, a first-person shooter about portals that lead to Hell, is that playing it seems to…

It’s 2005. I’ve had an operation at a hospital outside of the city, and there’s a long (smooth, tarmacked, and well-lit) road to recovery…

Beware the cute. The first moments of Ori and the Will of the Wisps are a lesson in emotional manipulation, and those of us who…

There are few sentences that send me running for the nearest window, gasping for fresh gravity, as potently as, “I had the strangest dream…

If you want to get your game off the ground, Kickstarter is all well and good, but you’re only covered for the initial kick;…

Licensed games. I remember the discs, buried at the bottom of cereal boxes, released to promote the newest Ice Age movie. The Treasure Planet…

Can a zombie be a Nazi? Are we to treat such a mingling as a double helping of malice, or does one cancel out…

For those who take titles at face value, Journey to the Savage Planet may disappoint. The first things you see are a spaceship computer screen,…