Resident Evil 2

Tuesday, January 22, 2019
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I’ve been saying for almost 20 years that I didn’t think Resident Evil 2 needed a remake. The original 1998 game has its flaws, and it’s a product…

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The Council

Monday, December 24, 2018
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The Council, from French developer Big Bad Wolf Studio (making its debut effort), is an odd game to categorize. It sort of looks like an adventure, and it…

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Just Cause 4

Sunday, December 9, 2018
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The Just Cause series has had its fair share of ups and downs over the last 12 years. Since its inception in 2006, the politically-charged sandbox game has…

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Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don’t Dry

Wednesday, December 5, 2018
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Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don’t Dry is a new point-and-click adventure from German developer CrazyBunch. If you don’t count Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded, which was an enhanced…

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Battlefield V

Monday, December 3, 2018
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The Good: WWII has never looked so pretty. The Bad: Hard to distinguish from Battlefield I. The Ugly: Game is incomplete.   There are people who no doubt…

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Fallout 76

Monday, November 26, 2018
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The Good: Prettiest Fallout yet! You can play without V.A.T.S. The Bad: So much scavenging. The Ugly: Multiplayer component just isn’t engaging, resulting in everyone wandering around solo….

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Spyro Reignited Trilogy

Tuesday, November 20, 2018
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The mid to late ’90s were an interesting time for 3D platformers. 2D icons of the genre were still incredibly prolific and popular, and the third dimension was…

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Call of Cthulhu

Tuesday, October 30, 2018
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There’s a lot of H.P. Lovecraft in modern nerd culture’s DNA. You can draw a straight line between the Cthulhu Mythos and the Conan stories, for example, and…

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Red Dead Redemption 2

Thursday, October 25, 2018
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Eight years, one thousand actors and countless stops on the hype train has come down to this moment. The lawless marauder of the Old West buried deep down…

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Pathfinder: Kingmaker

Tuesday, October 23, 2018
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I should probably begin by saying that, going into this review, I know absolutely nothing about the tabletop game Pathfinder upon which this game is based. It wasn’t…

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