When a series hasn’t had any competition for well over a decade, stagnation is likely to occur as fresh ideas…
Roguelikes have invaded a ton of genres from management sims to card battlers to shooters to rhythm games, so it’s…
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In Animal Crossing, a fussy neighbor can be mildly annoying and hard to get rid of. In Cult of the…
Roll7 is at its best when its games are, fittingly, all about rolling around. Laser League and Not a Hero…
Kaiju films offer up an undeniable essence of cool. After all, what’s more rad than a giant beast trampling around…
Franchises often reach their peak during their second outing. Not only are these sequels a chance to improve upon what…
It’s often hard to tell if a game starring an animal will be more than shallow bait for memes. Untitled…
In an apparent response to the sluggish cover-based shooters and realistic military games from the past 15 or so years,…
Bright Memory: Infinite began as Bright Memory, a lone episode that garnered attention because of its visuals and gunplay that…
OlliOlli World was already plenty replayable with a massive multitude of challenges, gear, leaderboards, and a nearly limitless bucket of…
As the roughly 1,000 ports and remakes of various Resident Evil games demonstrate, Capcom is the rare game publisher that does a…
Until Dawn has been hanging over Supermassive Games since its surprisingly excellent debut in 2015. Every game since has been…
Side-scrolling brawlers haven’t made the smoothest transition to the current day. They don’t hold up as well outside of the…
SNK’s applaud-worthy preservation efforts for its catalog of largely forgotten Neo Geo Pocket Color titles continue with Biomotor Unitron. The 1999 release…
If you’re not familiar with the Crazy Chicken series, then you’re likely not from Germany, as Moorhuhn, as it is known in…
While past Destroy All Humans titles in the series have had multiplayer offerings, it has never been the series’ focus or strong…
On the PlayStation 5 menu, the tagline for Pac-Man Museum+ reads, “Play 14 legendary Pac-Man games!” Marketing is difficult, especially when Pac-Man‘s…
I’ve never played a Kao the Kangaroo game, although I spent much of my childhood platforming my way through any magical…
Sniper Elite changed with Sniper Elite 4. Optimistically, it was to refresh the series for its fourth entry, but pessimistically,…