Eric Layman

With Dark Souls' formidable reputation undisputed, other characteristics slip into transparency. Humor, long rumbling under the surface, receives a sharper focus in Dark Souls III’sAshes of Ariandel.

Hello and goodbye.

Pixel Gear seeks enrichment from the path of least resistance.

Ace Banana demonstrates that virtual reality experiences can be as creatively bankrupt and technically destitute as the most cynically conceived mobile games.

Job Simulator will be the first PlayStation VR game you show to another person.

Virtual reality is an apt home for Battlezone's class of tank busting pandemonium. Appropriating its arcade doctrine, filtering it through 36 years of gaming discourse, and then projecting it as a full-priced product may have been a reach.

Batman: Arkham VR showcases the amazing potential (and the paralyzing limitations) of PlayStation VR.

I dream of geometry.

Thumper wraps a trip through spectral hell, the sensation of travelling down an interminable barrel of a gun, and a pounding rhythm game into an articulate package.

The death of the Dreamcast. The birth of PlayStation VR. Rez's singular orbit stays outside of a mercurial industry and remains as powerful and as relevant as it was fifteen years ago.

Would you prefer a tenacious coach who encourages you to do better or an obstinate teacher who seems aroused by failure? Necropolis expects its audience to compose the latter.