video games

Necromunda: Underwhelming Chore

Sometimes the license just doesn’t land. Necromunda: Underhive Wars, developed by Rogue Factor and published by Focus Home Interactive, is a third-person turn-based tactics game in the vein of your XCOM revivals or, well, just about any game that’s a...

Alpha Protocol: The Mass Effect-Like Series That Might Have Been

Alpha Protocol was the greatest FPS RPG franchise that never was. Even today it remains a pretty divisive game for those who remember it; at the time, the Obsidian Entertainment-developed, SEGA-published title was released in 2010 on PC/PS3/Xbox 360 to...

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint: You Could Bend It Instead, or Just Leave It Be Entirely

There are a lot of good ways to do open-world games, even ones that are games as a service (GaaS). And then there are a lot of bad ones. Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint didn’t get a review in this...

Ghost of Tsushima Is a Fantasy Game, But a Good One

I did not think I’d be back here reviewing an open-world fantasy game again so soon after The Witcher 3. That’s what Ghost of Tsushima is, of course, and it’s important to get it out of the way early: despite...

Getting Started with Magic: the Gathering Arena

Welcome to part two of our Getting Started series for Magic: The Gathering! Yesterday we covered the basics of getting started with paper Magic on the tabletop (click here if you missed that one and one to know more),...

The Fall of the Tomb Raider? A Tomb Raider Reboot Retrospective

Did you remember a Tomb Raider game came out in late 2018? Shadow of the Tomb Raider was the third and almost certainly final game in the Crystal Dynamics/Eidos Montreal reboot of the classic action-adventure franchise, and the game seemed...

Bioshock Infinite Revisited: A Triple-A Studio “Game as Art,” Seven Years Later

Author's note: Given the scope of the piece and what it specifically examines, this article was written solely about the base Bioshock: Infinite game, without playing or considering the Burial at Sea story expansions as they were not part...

Hardspace: Shipbreaker Early Access Review

It's been the kind of year that makes the prospect of shipping off-planet and spending my remaining days methodically dismantling space freighters ,in exchange for being saddled with a billion dollars of corporate debt, strangely appealing. As it turns...

Diving into the lore of Total War: Warhammer with Loremaster Sotek

In the next part of our coverage of the Total War: Warhammer series, we are diving into the lore and setting side of the game. For this task, we called upon an experienced voice in this field, Loremaster of...

FinntheBinn’s Charity Stream to Support Community Bail Funds

If you're looking for something to do with your Friday evening/afternoon, consider stopping in to watch @Finnthebinn and their friends stream a Jackbox party to raise money for The Bail Project. The organization seeks to combat mass incarceration by...