When Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries released as an Epic Games Store exclusive at the end of 2019, there were a lot of fans who were anticipating a Steam release left with a bitter […]
The original Dead Island and Dying Light devs, Techland, have been rekindling the hype for their delayed first person zombie-meets-parkour sequel, Dying Light 2. If you’re dying to get more information […]
Video games, like any form of media, have evolved over the years. You can almost tell what games came from what generation/era based purely on aesthetics and sensibility. Biomutant feels like a […]
The Nintendo Switch is a surprisingly versatile console, and it has been home to games that only a few years ago seem like they’d never be on a handheld system. The system’s […]
I never played Gloria Victis: Medieval MMORPG, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game that had a self-professed emphasis on realism. That game, released into Steam Early Access in 2016 is still in […]
Remember Steam Greenlight? It was a way for indie developers to get their games on Steam, based on community approval—this was all before Steam opened the floodgates and let most developers onto […]
Video games have a way of capturing feelings that aren’t as easily duplicated in other mediums—at least not in the same way. There’s no other type of media that can represent bleak […]
(Check out our interview with Chicago Developer BackSlash Games, published late last year.) “Kakatte Koi” is a Japanese phrase that is an answer to a challenge—basically “bring it on” with “yo!” being […]
Video games are great because they enable some pretty inexplicably wacky things that you really just don’t see anywhere else. I never thought I’d type “Robin Hood crossbow parkour,” but Sherwood Extreme […]
When Subnautica released into 1.0 in 2018, I was obsessed. I think my wife genuinely worried about my health and wellbeing. It was definitely one of my favorite games that year—I even […]
Hunting games aren’t exactly everyone’s cup of tea. I can understand why, since a hunting game that has too much emphasis on realism can be extremely boring, while having too little realism […]
I always wanted to play a really good base management and/or building game with a focus on space stations. There have been a few I’ve played over the years, and even a […]
