Why defeat a king when you can take down a god? Many games strive to be unabashed power fantasies, and nothing makes you feel more powerful than smacking mortality into a deity. FromSoftware’s RPGs consistently involve cosmic horrors, and the likes of Queen Marika and the Moon Presence aren’t in…

Spoilers ahead for Inside. While Playdead’s Inside initially garnered attention for being a spiritual successor to Limbo, the game forged its own identity by offering more complex puzzles, visuals, and storytelling. Said storytelling eventually saw the boy players controlled merging with a giant, rolling mass of bodies called the Huddle,…

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has been Nintendo’s golden goose for several years, as it’s the company’s best-selling Switch game of all time and has received various updates over the years, becoming a feature-packed experience. Even with Mario Kart World aiming to usurp its position, Nintendo isn’t done dropping new content into…

Last month, Dishonored creator Harvey Smith and Arkane’s former production director Ben Horne announced that they had established a new studio, Black Pony Immersive, with the sole purpose of creating a new immersive sim in the lineage of Deus Ex, Thief, Prey, and System Shock. Insistent on learning more about…

Although Nintendo has suggested it may be leaving the Wilds Era behind, that may not be the case in full, with the latest leaks around the next mainline open-world Legend of Zelda game detailing a threequel game like Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. That may be…

The Nintendo Wii has been out of the spotlight for years, with the company obviously more focused on the Nintendo Switch family of hybrid consoles, but the Wii is still getting a new game this month. While most Nintendo Wii owners have long since moved on to newer hardware, the…