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While the first teaser for the sequel to Alien: Isolation caught our attention last month, another sequel to a video game based on that popular sci-fi franchise is actually coming out before it. The other game in question is Aliens:…
Amberspire, a new tabletop-like city builder from The Banished Vault maker Lunar Division, drops you onto a distant moon that’s seen better days. An opulent civilization once flourished here, but the dead are all that remain of it. And you…
As the Evercade release cadence continues on at a steady pace, the connective tissue tying together their tentpole cartridges is its indie support. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: there’s something special about owning these games physically,…
Abiotic Factor is already a massive game; you could easily spend 80+ hours exploring its sprawling, Black Mesa-ish research facility. But that hasn’t stopped developer Deep Field Games further extending the tendrils of its labyrinthine, interdimensional science lab. Last December’s…
Surprise and delist. It’s a sad reality of modern gaming that, despite not needing physical media to play a game, the digital-only version is typically more ephemeral and subject to sudden disappearance than a cart or a disc. It only…
The science fiction genre is home to many fascinating, terrifying, and breathtaking worlds that stretch the limits of imagination, from the hive of scum and villainy that is Tatooine in Star Wars to the lush, Earth-like exomoon of Pandora in…
There are many ways to kill and embarrass your opponent in the long-running franchise, but these are the best of the best
I’ve always thought Half-Life didn’t have enough teenagers in it. I mean, what’s an underground research facility for if not navigating the relationship challenges of adolescence? It is, frankly, shocking that Valve so flagrantly neglected this demographic in its depiction…
There have been a lot of takes on the Addams Family. The characters originated in 1938 in a series of one-panel New Yorker cartoons by Charles Addams. Then came the original TV series, which ran from 1964 to 1966, followed…
Some video game trends are easy to trace back to their source. When we got a wave of battle royale games in 2018, there was no question that they sprung up around the popularity of PUBGand Fortnite. Other trends are…