Reviews

Great emulation, clever remixes, and thoughtful historic context combine into a superb compilation.

I Am Bread is about as enjoyable as eating toast that you forgot about and left in the toaster overnight. It has its moments - flinging a virtual hunk of wholemeal across a room is oddly satisfying - but it's let down by frustrating controls and plodding pace.

Does an all-new mode, a host of long-awaited passing upgrades, and a continued focus on making “the little things” better translate into the best Madden yet?

Our thoughts thus far on this year's edition of Madden NFL.

Check out our review for Virgil, a revenge-fueled thriller with a gay protagonist, from Midnighter writer Steve Orlando.

One thing that everyone can agree upon when it comes to Dragon Age: Inquisition is that the game is big. Like, crazy big. The Hinterlands alone is approximately the size of North Dakota. So, when The Descent DLC came along and promised to scale things down to a dungeon crawl, you had to wonder how it was going to play out. I figured it was going to go one of two ways. I assumed the adventure would...[Read More]

Rick and Morty were charged with saving the world through the power of pop music in this week's bizarre episode.

The choices you make in Until Dawn have more far-reaching consequences than in most other survival horror games: the butterfly effect feature it so heavily relies on is highly effective, adding weight to seemingly innocuous choices and creating a game that feeds deeply into player paranoia of making the wrong choice. Couple this system with the game's tongue-in-cheek exploitation of slasher film t...[Read More]

Everything came to a head in The Brink's first season finale.

Late in the story of Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, Marcus Fenix kicks down the front door of his childhood home. He finds the wallpaper peeling, the furniture in disarray, and a fine layer of dust blanketing every surface.This return to a dilapidated family home is a poetic echo of the task at hand. Many members of developer The Coalition worked on the original 2006 Gears of War, and this remast...[Read More]

The Strain's newest character stole the show this week as the vampire hunter Quinlan butted heads with our heroes.