For over 30 years Goichi Suda, otherwise known as Suda51, has been one of the gaming industry’s few true auteurs. His calling card is imbuing familiar genres with unconventional twists, whether it’s making the hero’s journey a tragedy in Super Fire Pro Wrestling Special (1994), a cel-shaded adventure game take …
Read More »
Back in 2017, just over two months after Fortnite came out, it had already morphed into a different experience than what was originally intended. Initially envisioned and released as a wave-based survival shooter called Save The World, Epic Games quickly took the toolset they built and reconfigured it into a …
Read More »
The pre-match Fortnite lobby was filled with a bunch of other players wearing a variety of different outfits. One was wearing a white puffer jacket and dancing in front of me for no discernible reason. Another stood motionless, looking like a rockstar wearing a bright purple vest and an animal …
Read More »
There are very few gaming gaming characters as instantly recognizable across all of popular culture as Mario or Sonic the Hedgehog, but Bandai Namco’s Pac-Man is one of them. The yellow fruit-eating circle’s iconic “waka-waka” eating soundbite is one of the most recognizable sounds in gaming. Debuting in 1980 in …
Read More »
It all started at The Game Awards 2017 when Hazelight Studios director Josef Fares said, “Fuck the Oscars” to an audience of millions of viewers. It was a funny and sobering moment in an otherwise advertisement-heavy show. After his profanity-filled yet otherwise innocuous speech, the show introduced a new gameplay …
Read More »
It’s a great time to be a shooter fan, no matter what kind of experience you are looking for. Between a new Call of Duty, Overwatch 2, Counter-Strike 2, Valorant, Apex Legends, and Fortnite, the field is more crowded than ever. With new contenders popping up seemingly every other week, …
Read More »
At his core, Indiana Jones is a character of conflicting traits. On most days, he’s a professor teaching archaeology at a fictional university in Connecticut, where his students sit either bored or enraptured (depending on how much of a crush they have on him). At other times, he’s called to …
Read More »
Compulsion Games, the studio behind indie titles Contrast (2013) and We Happy Few (2016), has been under the Microsoft umbrella since 2018, but their upcoming action-adventure game, South of Midnight, isn’t your average Xbox title. Aside from providing the budget, Xbox has been relatively hands-off as Compulsion works on its …
Read More »
Many studios have tried to match the success and legacy of Diablo II over the years. The 2000 action-RPG (ARPG) by Blizzard Entertainment has long been considered the gold standard for fantasy dungeon crawlers, and is generally thought of as one of the best games ever made. Choosing from multiple …
Read More »
Marvel is no stranger to games. From turn-based tactical RPGs to fast-paced card battlers for phones, Marvel’s roster of heroes and villains has been brought to life across genres. Some, like Marvel’s Spider-Man, are among the best ever of their kind. However, with Marvel Rivals (out Dec. 6), NetEase, the …
Read More »