When Team17 released Worms onto the Commodore Amiga in 1994, it was hardly the first game to flaunt the turn-based exchange of aerial weaponry. Games like Artillery Duel and Scorched Earth had helped establish the ...

It’s that time of year, when the release of Madden NFL signals not only the kickoff of football season, but the beginning of the holiday game deluge. With titles like Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, F1 ...

Occasionally, feature creep can ruin a respectable franchise. Such was the case with Activision’s Tony Hawk series. Early on, the property received critical and commercial acclaim for its prodigious simulation of skateboarding. Adeptly, nearly every ...

Play video games long enough and the specter of predictability is destined to develop.  Much of the issue stems from how games are created. Unsurprisingly, risk-adverse publishers would rather green-light reiterative works and sequels than ...

From Doom’s first DLC expansion, which adds maps, weapons, and equipment to the game’s multiplayer component to the re-release of a handful of Nintendo favorites, this week’s selection of new game releases extends a few ...

Unlike some studios who fluidly shift among genres, Hachiōji, Tokyo-based Experience Inc. has focused solely on dungeon crawlers ever since the inaugural release of 2009’s Generation Xth: Code Realize. Before that, a significant portion of ...

With high unemployment, an increasingly large and unskilled workforce, as well as a woeful economy, the populace looks toward a young leader for hope. While the context the United States faced in 2008, it is ...

America’s arcades have lost almost all their luster. Restrained to the recesses of bowling alleys and multiplexes, these recreational spaces have becoming a dumping ground for rigged redemption machines and the light-gun shooter with only ...

From a trio of 16-bit era Disney classics to a PC port of Little’s King’s Story the 2009 amalgam of real-time strategy, simulation, and role-playing elements, this week’s schedule of new game releases has a ...

Across the last few years, a deluge of capable efforts such as Guacamelee!, Axiom Verge, Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse, Chronicles of Teddy: Harmony of Exidus,  Xeodrifter, and Ori and the Blind Forest have offered ...