Capcom finally released the demo for their upcoming Monster Hunter sequel, Rise, on the Switch–and after spending a decent amount of time with it, we’re happy to report that things are looking really solid. As not-hardcore fans of the series, [...]
Back in 2016, ID Software’s reboot of their flagship series offered a tetanus shot to the increasing malaise of the FPS genre–and to its own franchise. Coming out of nowhere, the game managed to ‘glory-kill’ (see what I did?) the [...]
Full Disclosure: Prior to trying out this demo, I wasn’t familiar with the earlier build that was released–as well as Square’s first BRAVELY DEFAULT title. I’ve been told repeatedly that it was a very successful JRPG throwback to [...]
In a bit of welcome news, both NO MORE HEROES and NO MORE HEROES 2: DESPARATE STRUGGLE got re-releases on the Nintendo Switch. For gamers of a certain temperment, this was indeed great news. As the decade-plus since they spent heralding the virtues of [...]
Aside from ALIEN/ALIENS, David Lynch’s landmark TV series TWIN PEAKS is that other seminal piece of media that games have displayed very little shame in borrowing elements from (Read: totally ripping off). Some do it well, some suck at it, and you [...]
Despite making some of the most innovative fighting games in history, SNK have long been the underdogs of the genre (imagine that). Their previous forays into 3-D didn’t really match the quality and charisma of their 2D fighters. That was until, [...]
As someone who jumped on the Zelda bandwagon with the original OCARINA OF TIME, I’ve only been familiar with the series in all its incarnations in the third dimension. I’ve played and loved everything from WIND WAKER to BOTW, but titles like A LINK TO THE [...]
In part one of our somewhat less emotional and more poker-faced perspective on the anthropomorphic presence that likes to call itself ‘Hideo Kojima’, we cataloged his rise to fame when he finally was able to successfully translate the Stealth-action [...]