and Roger showed up more than a couple of times on last year's GOTY lists. I had never heard of the game prior to that, and it's weird because they're very much my jam. Luckily, the game just came on Switch 2.

Fallen Tear at $20 is a solid investment at this time. Even if you don't play it until it hits its 1.0 release, it'll pay to be an early adopter before the price goes up because it's definitely one of the better Metroidvanias I've played in a while.

With the big success of the PowerWash Simulator games, we are starting to see our first indie games take cues from what makes a power-washing game fun and take it to new places. That is where Moldwasher comes in: a 2D game about cleaning up this incredibly nasty kitchen full of mold, disgusting goo, and more bad things in various parts of the room, due to whatever happened before this game begins. To make things a bit weirder, you’re a sentient piece of sushi that has somehow been tasked with cl...

River City Saga: Journey to the West is one more River City/Kunio-kun fans than roguelite fans in my opinion as the elements from that series really make this game worth playing. For raw action roguelite enjoyment, there are better games for sure.

The first thing to bear in mind when picking up R-Type Tactics I+II Cosmos is the fact that the game does absolutely no handholding. You will begin the game, be given mission objectives, and a list of units, and you have to figure it out. There is a comprehensive manual and an Archives section, which are indispensable for getting anywhere in this game. This is the type of game that asks a lot of a player up front, but rewards them for making the time investment with a very rich, very intricate t...

My hands-off session with The Lost Wild shows promise for the dinosaur-filled title and left me hungry for more.

The game is exactly what its title says. It's Rayman Legends... Retold. The game isn't a remaster. It's a fully remade in 3D platformer from the ground up, and while its visuals were definitely a point of conversation online, the animation using Ubisoft's Snowdrop engine was as smooth as it gets.

When games are centered on their music, it becomes easier to tell whether you'll resonate with the experience. Recent hits like Mixtape and Wax Heads did an outstanding job scratching specific itches, and Mr. Records looks to be cut from the same cloth with a diverse soundtrack and simplistic, but more than functional, gameplay. In Mr. Records, you take on the role of an older-looking man who runs a record store on the bottom floor of the building he lives in. He loves music, especially older so...

One of the most anticipated but mysterious showings at Summer Game Fest was Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3. What we thought would be hands-on time turned out to be hands-off, which is strange, since the Xenoverse series is hardly anything new. We'll definitely give it credit for introducing new ideas, and for telling an untold story we've never seen in that universe before, but as someone that considers himself a Dragon Ball fan, I don't understand why Bandai Namco is being so cagey about this game.

We’ve known about Stranger Than Heaven for almost two years now. With every trailer and every announcement since its reveal at The Game Awards in 2024, we still don’t know much about the game itself. That is, up until last month, when Sega and XBOX released a barrage of trailers that told us more about the story, characters, and finally, combat, to let us know what changes to expect in this prequel saga. During my time at Summer Game Fest, I got to see how this RGG Studio entry differs from the...

We got to check out Wall World 2 on PS5 thanks to a code from the publisher and have been enjoying our time with the game, which mixes tower defense and mining fun in a similar manner to games like Dome Keeper and the first Wall World. The key difference here is that you're controlling a mechanical spider vehicle that moves up and down the wall of this Wall World as you find different mining spots to grind your way through them before the next wave of enemies shows up on the surface to attack yo...

In the video above, I attempt to take out Wiz Khalifa with his new Elusive Target mission in Hitman: World of Assassination and then try to take him out in the Target Arcade version of his Elusive Target mission to see if I could do better. The Elusive Target is available until July 5.

I found I was struggling with getting into a groove and finding a cool playstyle that fit me and was fun to grind with in this brutal game. No longer am I lost in that regard - the Skitarii have shown me the way.

After getting to check out some of the new cards that are coming to the Super Heroes set, I am optimistic that Wizards of the Coast has course-corrected on the direction of the ongoing Marvel collaboration while also highlighting the biggest issue that Universes Beyond has presented over the past few years. 

Resident Evil: Veronica one of the biggest announcements at SGF the day prior. An interview with the producer during SGF before being shown Onimusha was definitely something I didn't expect.