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From 8-bit style Igarashi-vania, Dark Souls at sixty, punishing frame-per-second, as well as David Cage’s latest opus, this week’s schedule of new game releases offers plenty of tempting titles. As such, it might be all ...

Games often allow us to explore imaginative places, from futuristic planets on the other side of our universe to fantastical lands occupied by mythical creatures. While these fictitious lands can be fascinating, all too often ...

For decades, racing games used raster-based graphics to depict three-dimensional racing circuits. Although there was a palpable advancement in fidelity across titles like 1976’s Night Driver, 1986’s Outrun, and 1994’s Cruis’n USA, the method of ...

Immortal Redneck is every bit as goofy as the name implies. But save for a few blemishes, the game is also oddly gratifying, especially if you’re a fan of lithe, late-nineties era shooters like Quake, ...

The recent PlayStation 4 and PC release of Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time demonstrates the difficulty of adapting certain anime genres into video games. Sure, shōnen typically makes for a straightforward transition, with Naruto ...

Beyond the obvious standouts, like Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition for the Switch and State of Decay 2 for the Xbox One, which week’s schedule of new game releases has a number of notables. From a ...

While not a complete misnomer, Strange Journey Redux isn’t really all that strange. Sure, Megami Tensei fans who missed the original 2009 DS release might perceive a few peculiar divergences. Most notable is the game’s ...

When it comes to gaming, crowdfunded efforts have a decidedly mixed record. For every success, there also seems to be an equal number of letdowns, with titles like Unsung Story, Project Phoenix, Mighty No. 9, ...

During the heyday of the coin-op era, the brawler enjoyed an extended period of quarter-gorging success. The reason for the genre’s popularity was clear: titles like Double Dragon, Final Fight, and Bad Dudes offered visceral ...

All too often, sequalization is motivated by money rather than any earnest attempt at artistic expression. Perhaps that’s seems like an excessively cynical perspective, but I’ve seen far too many follow-ups that either offer only ...