Verdict Days Gone has some epic blockbuster moments, but they’re far too fleeting to stand out from the hordes of zombie games already available Pros Freaker horde battles are blockbuster Motorbike contributes to fascinating survival mechanic Random encounters add tension Cons Formulaic missions Corny and cliched story Takes a while to get going Plagued with…

First Impressions Code Vein is shaping up nicely. The over-the-top anime aesthetic is definitely an acquired taste, with outfits proving ridiculous and monsters decorated with an absurd number of spikey appendages. But, push past that, and there’s an enjoyable action romp at the centre. Co-operative play has always been at the bloody, beating heart of…

The Yakuza series sits at a unique place in 2018, juggling two different points in the series timeline. The western release of prequel Yakuza 0 in 2017 was a dazzling gateway for a new wave of players and flowed naturally into a remake of the very first game later that year. The next title that followed, however,…

If not for the studio logo when you start up Giga Wrecker Alt, you’d never know it was made by one of the most successful video game developers in history. It isn’t just that this lacks any connection to Game Freak’s iconic Pokemon series. Giga Wrecker Alt, an enhanced port of the 2017 PC release, doesn’t…

The third episode of Life Is Strange 2 takes place two months after we last saw Sean Diaz and his little brother Daniel escaping Beaver Creek, Oregon because of yet another plan gone wrong. There’s a lot to get caught up on here, but Sean’s journal does a good job of making sure you don’t feel like…

At a certain point in Rage 2, you become an unstoppable force, a lone wolf that can take down bandit camps, monsters 10 times your size, and crowds of deformed humanoids with your gratifying, destructive abilities and weapons. Not only does your suite of superpowers make combat a blast, it’s the key to developing a satisfying…

One of the most macabre scenes in A Plague Tale: Innocence is the eponymous plague, manifesting in the form of cursed rats. These vermin have a malevolent, otherworldly presence, their incessant screeching and scratching on stone pavements and atop piles of corpses making for a nightmarish, cacophonous din. Like sewage sludge, these creatures pour out of crevices…

In Whispers of a Machine, a retro-styled point-and-click adventure, interesting themes and mechanical elements relating to human augmentation are stapled onto a recognizable framework. Your character, murder investigator Vera Englund, has access to cybernetically augmented abilities thanks to some neat future-science, and she can do things like perform biometric readings of the folks she is interviewing…

The new big bad in Mortal Kombat is named Kronika, and she’s causing a ruckus by messing with time and rewriting history. Characters are getting erased or colliding with their past selves, while alliances are reverting and new ones are being made–it’s the kind of chaos that’s ripe for conflict. Nothing that happened with Mortal…

At the heart of any European town founded before the 19th century lies a church. It’s the same with Anno 1800. At the center of your city sits a magnificent cathedral, its spectacular steeple reaching for the heavens and illuminating the lives of everyone who passes by. It’s a very beautiful church, but it’s hiding something….