Borderlands is the kind of series where you'll visit completely urban worlds like Prometheus one day while exploring Lovecraftian planets such as Xylourgos the next. Thanks to the third DLC for Borderlands 3, Bounty of Blood: A Fistful of Redemption, you can now visit old-western-like planets for...
West of Dead is a top-down cover shooter created by Upstream Arcade and published by Raw Fury. The game fully embraces its classic graphic novel style in everything from cutscenes to the characters. Players dive into the dark world of William Mason, an undead soul looking to find his way through...
Beyond Blue sits in an interesting place in video games, documentaries, and activism. The game is a narrative-driven adventure title that puts you in the heart of the Pacific Ocean. Developers E-Line Media said the game takes inspiration from the BBC’s Blue Planet II documentary. Does Beyond Blue...
Ion Fury is a throwback to the 1990's PC FPS glory days. While many Indie developers have taken this old formula and created something new and brilliant. A perfect example of this is of course games like Dusk and Amid Evil. However, for every good game, there are a dozen mediocre titles. As someone...
Minecraft Dungeons is a brave new step for Mojang and the Minecraft franchise. A bit of a step out into left-field though, so to speak. For a franchise who knew the action RPG genre would work so well. Read more
From the mid-1990s to the turn of the millennium, there was a spate of games that focused on vehicular combat and wacky racing ideas. If you take two of those franchises—Destruction Derby and Micro Machines—and combine them, you get Concept Destruction. It’s a game that manages to encapsulate...
Lockdown by Chriton Studios is a small survival horror/escape game that harkens back to the time of classic FPS games like Counter-Strike. You are a survivor of the AME-3 virus. Your entire city has gone into lockdown, and you have to find a way out. The trick is, there is only one way to get out,...
Earlier this year we had a chance to sit down with the PlatinumGames heads and talk about the future of their studio. At the time, Atsushi Inaba and Hideki Kamiya were laser-focused on getting started on their own as a publisher. That beginning started with The Wonderful 101:...
Splash Damage and The Coalition teamed up to take the Gears franchise into a foray with Gears Tactics. The game is a turned-based strategy game and marks a significant departure from third-person cover-based shooter roots, but still remains faithful to the source material. Does Gears Tactics rev...
Streets of Rage 4 is one of those titles you jump into completely unprepared. How could this even compete with modern blockbuster production these days, right? Wrong! That comic-style storytelling, that soundtrack, that fresh coat of paint on the otherwise untouched classic. It all comes perfectly...