★★★★☆
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Tell Me Why review
Tell Me Why might be smaller in scope and less mechanically complex than Dontnod’s Life is Strange series, but it’s just as emotionally impactful.
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PGA Tour 2K21 review
PGA Tour 2K21 is hands down one of the best-playing golf games in the last decade.
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Samurai Shodown NeoGeo Collection review
Samurai Shodown NeoGeo Collection has most of what it takes to be a definitive collection of SNK’s legendary fight game series, but just misses the mark in the end.
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Ghost of Tsushima review
Though it wasn’t free of flaws or frustrations, the time I spent with Ghost of Tsushima left me feeling that I’d played a game unlike any other.
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Maneater review
Maneater is part of the lineage that includes Grand Theft Auto, Crackdown, and military shooters like Call of Duty and Battlefield. These are games that use mass murder as a gameplay foundation, and every method has its own potential ethical pitfalls. Rockstar made killing innocent people part and parcel of the sandbox experience, which is…
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Gunbrick: Reloaded review
Ever since cavepeople etched notches into bones, the concept and action of counting have defined the architecture of the human mind. There’s plenty of evidence that other animals count and use mathematics to survive, like Tunisian desert ants who use geometry instead of scents and landmarks to find the most direct paths back to their…
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Resident Evil 3 review
Beauty and the Beast.
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Doom Eternal review
Demons are Forever.
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Nioh 2 review
Team Ninja returns with a new Nioh that’s just as good—but maybe not better—than the original.
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Ori and the Will of the Wisps review
Ori and the Will of the Wisps does everything that a good sequel is supposed to do. But in an era that’s rich with “emotional platformers,” it doesn’t do anything to make itself stand out.
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Journey to the Savage Planet review
Call of the wild.
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Pokémon Sword & Shield review
Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield are among the best games the series has ever offered.