Supergiant Games, the developer of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre, has a new action rogue-lite title, Hades, and a lot could be said about it. The first thing would be that it’s, hands down, an amazing game as you’ll find out in our official review. First released in December 2018 as an Epic Games Store exclusive, …
Developer Supergiant Games is known for creating titles with rich narratives and sophisticated themes, and one of the great triumphs of Hades is how those elements are seamlessly integrated into a roguelite structure. Through a seemingly limitless array of character interactions and plot progression, Hades seeds its storytelling over many hours of repeated runs, as …
It’s tricky reviewing (or re-reviewing) games that created such dramatic swells of emotion so very long ago. You can’t possibly go into them fresh and bias free. That’s the situation most reviewers face going into Super Mario 3D All-Stars, which collects together Mario’s first three 3D adventures and sharpens them up for Switch. With neutrality …
Just like the star athletes that adorn its cover every year, NBA 2K has created a strong legacy, launching it to the top of this generation’s sports games. The series has maintained solid gameplay while never forgetting about innovation, and I appreciate the risks Visual Concepts takes even when they don’t completely pay off. NBA …
For whatever reason, Crysis has been remastered and you can now use it to bring your rig to its knees again. Crysis Remastered makes changes to textures, lighting, and shadows among other things. The original version of the game doesn’t exactly play nice with modern setups, so this remaster is probably your best bet to be able …
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I love what Hades is made of. It’s made of mythology, of course – Zeus and Nyx and all that other spontaneous, terrifying, pitiable lot who have been lurking in their own form of Early Access for millenia. And it’s made of everything the developer Supergiant has learned from making dashing, finely poised action games …
The Kingdom Rush series is no stranger to the Switch, though it’s certainly more popular on mobile devices. Kingdom Rush Origins follows the footsteps of its predecessors, delivering straightforward, accessible tower-defence gameplay with pleasant visuals to boot. It’s surprisingly engaging once you get to grips with the mechanics, but whether you pick this up on …
In Star Renegades, only you can save the future from an evil empire. However, your scrappy crew of futuristic space raiders is destined to face insurmountable odds. The solution to staring down endless deaths in the face of super soldiers and murderous mechs? Travel from dimension to dimension to find the reality where you can …
Here’s an incomplete list of things you will encounter in 13 Sentinels: a talking cat. Time travel. Time travel, but also not really. Androids. Clones. Android clones. Memory-wiping drugs. A robot that looks like Wall-E. An underground UFO. Oh, and of course it’s the story of 13 highschoolers getting into giant mechs to fight monsters. …
As a narrative genre, sci-fi has limitless possibilities. It encompasses far-flung concepts like time travel, rampaging monsters, android assassins, and more. Even with all of that within reach, most sci-fi stories limit their scope to exploring just a few big ideas. However, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim shows no such restraint. It’s an all-inclusive, pulpy feast …
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