The spring beta season is in full swing, and Microsoft Studios is getting involved in a big way.  For Ultimate Edition owners (and everyone starting tomorrow), Gears of War 4 is flexing its multiplayer guns with a preview session for a few PvP modes that will be included in the full release later this fall.  After Epic Games stepped away from their franchise in 2014, a new development team, The Co...[Read More]

What in the hell have I just played for the last week or so? Chickens with guns? Gosh. Really? Gosh. That is some ‘fowl play’ right there, folks.

There is nothing quite like a simple top down competitive action game. It brings the world together, then it promptly, as well as swiftly, breaks it into pieces. It’s truly what makes the gaming world go round. Welcome to Atlas Reactor from Trion.

Have you ever wanted to build, manage, and maintain your own prison?  Well, here’s your chance!  The highly regarded construction and management simulator Prison Architect released for PC last October by Introversion Software is soon to get a full port to console by Double Eleven.  A preview build was made available to me via the Xbox One, which showed while there are still some walls to be ...[Read More]

Wadjet Eye Games have proven themselves very skilled at the nearly-lost art of point and click adventures games, a genre I grew up with and still enjoy. So when they have a new game on the horizon, I sit up and take note! I was fortunate to get a preview build of their next endeavor, Shardlight, which contained about a third of the complete game I'm told. The full version comes out March 8th, but ...[Read More]

20XX is an action-platformer that hits the right notes with Mega-Man fans.

After an extremely impressive year for standard FPS experiences in 2015 (CoD, Halo, Rainbow Six, et cetera), 2016 is looking to take the genre to another plateau.  On the horizon for the first half of the calendar and beyond, the two leading consoles of this eighth generation are going to see an influx of releases that create open world experiences in earnest.  Sprawling playable areas that will o...[Read More]

Another massive multiplayer online experience? C'mon, what could really be different? You would be amazed how much streamlining can improve an MMO experience.

I recently spent some time with Noct, a new game by C3SK and Devolver Digital that's currently in Early Access on Steam. It's a monochrome, top-down 2D survival horror game with multiplayer, and possibly the first of its kind, ha. I wasn't even sure what to make of it when I first booted it up, but I was both pleasantly surprised and also a bit concerned.

Twenty-one games and two decades splintered Need for Speed across demographics and racing genres. Despite its success and popularity, it still aches for definition. Need for Speed, bearing no additional title in its latest release, seeks to embody its prominent namesake.

As the end approaches, a Reckoning has arrived!  As the last piece of the season pass puzzle, or a stand alone download, Sledgehammer offers up one more round of add-on content for Advanced Warfare.  Four new multiplayer maps and a finale to the Exo Zombies experience.

Delta Squad is back.  And this time, it's on the One.