Duel of the Fates By Sam Desatoff • January 12th, 2017 Star Wars: Destiny may very well be the game that gets me back into collectible card games.
My Abusive Relationship With The Witness By Matthew Byrd • January 12th, 2017 Puzzles in The Witness are designed to break you. They’re similar to a Dark Souls‘ boss fight in that way.
Persistence of T.I.M.E. By Jason McMaster • January 12th, 2017 What might sound like an old Quantum Leap episode is the entire crux of the game – jumping back in time to make sure things go the way they should.
Pokémon Is Trapped In An Identity Crisis By Matt Sayer • January 10th, 2017 Now more than ever, the Pokémon games can’t decide what they are. Are Pokémon weapons, or are they our friends?
Dating Pugs in Hot Date Reminds Me of my Social Anxiety By Khee Hoon Chan • January 10th, 2017 Out of all the dating sims I’ve tried, Hot Date is probably the only one that manages to capture how frightening and unpredictable dating can be.
XenoVerse 2 Makes You Earn a Dragon Ball Z Staple By David Shimomura • January 9th, 2017 “XenoVerse 2 doubles down on something at the heart of Dragon Ball, training, getting whooped, training, and then coming back better and stronger than before.”
Walking Dead: The New Frontier Makes You Feel Like A Proud (Or Disappointed) Parent By Charles Singletary • January 6th, 2017 “The New Frontier, thus far, is the best evolution of the relationship between Lee and Clementine as you witness the human (or monster) that you shaped.”
The Downloadable Turnabout By Jose Cardoso • January 6th, 2017 How should the Phoenix Wright DLC episodes fit into the main story?
Fear in a Handful of Cards By Jason McMaster • January 5th, 2017 “You’re trapped in your parlor. The door is gone. Outside you hear the skittering of… things. Things you can’t comprehend.”
Why Do Simulators Turn Us Into Sociopaths? By Matthew Byrd • January 5th, 2017 “It seems that everyone has at least one story about that time they went a little mad in a simulator game.”