When Returnal first came out in April this year -- and what a year -- I knew I was going to absolutely adore it. Everything about the look and sound, cribbing from such distinct sci-fi horror sources as Edge of Tomorrow , Prometheus , and Annihilation , just worked for me, in a way that made me rather annoyed that I didn't have a Playstation 5 to actually play it on. And yet, the initial reacti...
Can we take a moment and admire the total renaissance Resident Evil is experiencing right now? From about 2012 ( Resident Evil 6 ) to 2016, the series felt, for all intents and purposes, dead. The action slant that had begun with the brilliant Resident Evil 4 —its innovative over the shoulder camera (something something Killswitch did it first something) combined with its taut pacing creating a...
“Given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game.” –Soren Johnson A while ago, I posted a lengthy diatribe against Cyberpunk 2077 . I had plenty of issues with it: the story didn’t resonate with me, the gameplay wore out its welcome before I had finished all of its quests, and I left feeling that the experience was empty—not just in the lack of thematic follow-through, but in...
Warning: SPOILERS for pretty much every Christopher Nolan movie. Including Tenet . Let no one say that Christopher Nolan is devoid of ambition. A man who loses his memory every few minutes, his story told in reverse. A professional thief who not only breaks into his target's dreams, but creates those dreams for them to inhabit as well. An astronaut who saves the Earth by communicating with his...
The distant future of 2020 is here! We don't have nanosuits, as Crytek predicted, but we do have Crysis Remastered , 13 years after the original release in 2007. Unfortunately, as a big fan of the original game on PC... this is at best, a flawed representation of Crysis , and at worst, straight-up unfaithful to the original. Story time! Crysis for the PC was the game that got me into custom bui...
Content Warning: I'm going to be talking about the 2018 Spider-Man game in an explicitly political context. A lot of points here were made back in 2018 by more talented writers than I, but I just finished the game, and it hit very differently in 2020. If political stuff in games isn't your bag, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. Oh, also, spoiler warning. Lukewarm takes in 3... 2... 1... I just played throu...
After seeing the quick look for Fall Guys last week, I picked it up -- and I have to say, it's been fantastic so far. In short, it is exactly what it appears to be, so if you haven't liked what you've seen, then it's probably not worth it for you to get. By that same token, however, if you have liked what you've seen, you'll probably enjoy it for at least a weekend. For those of you who've been...
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