Games Reviews
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Dispatch is a smart superhero story that lives up to Telltale’s legacy By Elijah Gonzalez October 21, 2025 | 6:49pm
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Samurai sequel Ghost Of Yōtei is a big, beautiful bowl of gaming gruel By William Hughes September 25, 2025 | 9:00am
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Elden Ring Nightreign hollows out a masterpiece, then asks you to find the fun By William Hughes May 28, 2025 | 10:00am
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Doom: The Dark Ages nails the meditative, metal art of murder By William Hughes May 9, 2025 | 10:00am
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Adventure game Old Skies is a must-play for time travel fans By William Hughes April 23, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Split Fiction is a great co-op game—when it remembers to show, not tell By A.V. Club Staff March 6, 2025 | 10:00am
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Monster Hunter: Wilds is savage, swift—and hollow By William Hughes March 1, 2025 | 9:00am
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Metaphor: ReFantazio is a worthy, epic successor to the Persona legacy By William Hughes October 7, 2024 | 10:00am
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Shadow Of The Erdtree review: 50 more hours of one of the decade's biggest, best, and weirdest games By William Hughes June 18, 2024 | 2:00pm
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Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance review: A slick, smart way to grind away the hours of your life By William Hughes June 13, 2024 | 5:52pm
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Lorelei And The Laser Eyes review: One of the best new puzzle games in years By William Hughes May 15, 2024 | 4:00pm
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Dragon's Dogma 2 review: One of the strangest Dark Souls imitators of all time By William Hughes March 20, 2024 | 3:00pm
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Alone In The Dark review: David Harbour is the worst part of this horror game remake By William Hughes March 19, 2024 | 6:06pm
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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth review: Excessive, exhausting…and exhilarating By William Hughes February 22, 2024 | 2:00pm
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Persona 3: Reload review: A re-energized revival of a grim gaming classic By William Hughes January 30, 2024 | 7:36pm
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Spider-Man 2 review: Dual Spideys play the hits in a deeply satisfying sequel By William Hughes October 16, 2023 | 3:00pm
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Lies Of P is far better than a "dark, violent Pinocchio game" has any right to be By William Hughes September 14, 2023 | 5:00pm
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Skyrim follow-up Starfield is more small step than giant leap By Sam Barsanti August 31, 2023 | 4:00pm
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Final Fantasy XVI trades strategy for spectacle—and fun By William Hughes June 27, 2023 | 3:00pm
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Diablo IV is a somewhat smarter way to kill a whole bunch of demons—and time By William Hughes June 2, 2023 | 7:00pm
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With Street Fighter 6, Capcom actually made a Street Fighter about street fighting By Sam Barsanti May 30, 2023 | 7:01am
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Jedi: Survivor is a well-crafted, occasionally exhausting trip back to the Star Wars universe By William Hughes April 26, 2023 | 3:00pm
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Dead Island 2 doesn't have an island, but it is a fun, fresh take on zombie slayage By William Hughes April 18, 2023 | 2:00pm
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Resident Evil 4 is a more mature spin on one of the greatest games of all time By William Hughes March 17, 2023 | 7:01am
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Hogwarts Legacy is the video game J.K. Rowling fans want, and maybe the video game they deserve By William Hughes February 9, 2023 | 2:00pm
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The Dead Space remake improves on excellence By William Hughes January 26, 2023 | 4:00pm
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Survival bore game The Callisto Protocol only wishes it was the new Dead Space By William Hughes December 2, 2022 | 5:00am
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God Of War Ragnarök is a late, but strong, contender for the best game of 2022 By William Hughes November 3, 2022 | 6:06pm
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Like its former-sidekick heroes, Gotham Knights struggles to live up to Batman's legacy By William Hughes October 20, 2022 | 11:00am
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The Last Of Us: Part I is here to sell you heartbreak all over again By William Hughes August 31, 2022 | 3:00pm
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Immortality is a welcome, unsettling turn to cinematic horror from the creator of Her Story By William Hughes August 30, 2022 | 8:00am
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The new Saints Row reboot is bland, boring, and broken By William Hughes August 22, 2022 | 2:00pm
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Stray is short, sweet, and a must-play for cat lovers By William Hughes July 18, 2022 | 4:00pm
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AI: The Somnium Files—Nirvana Initiative hides a good mystery game under too much embarrassing baggage By William Hughes June 20, 2022 | 5:00pm
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The Quarry is the best "playable horror movie" since Until Dawn By William Hughes June 8, 2022 | 1:00pm
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Teensy indie game console Playdate is a beautiful toy—but it could be so much more By William Hughes April 18, 2022 | 5:00pm
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Elden Ring is vast, intimidating, and worth the wait By William Hughes February 23, 2022 | 3:00pm
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Sci-fi sequel Horizon Forbidden West is as good as open-world games get By William Hughes February 14, 2022 | 8:01am
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At its best, Sifu has the goofy grace of a playable Jackie Chan movie By William Hughes February 6, 2022 | 12:00pm
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Extraction plunges the Rainbow Six franchise into a frenetic sci-fi horror flick By William Hughes January 19, 2022 | 4:04pm
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Halo Infinite redefines “combat evolved” for 2021 By Sam Barsanti December 6, 2021 | 8:01am
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The Guardians Of The Galaxy game is messy and miraculous—just like its heroes By Sam Barsanti October 25, 2021 | 2:00pm
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In Inscryption—one of the best games of 2021—card battles are serious, scary business By William Hughes October 18, 2021 | 3:00pm
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Far Cry 6 has all the intelligence and charm of a video game cockfight By William Hughes October 6, 2021 | 1:50pm
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We’re not mad at Deathloop—just a little disappointed By William Hughes September 14, 2021 | 2:45pm
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New console, new dimension—same old Ratchet And Clank By William Hughes June 8, 2021 | 2:00pm
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Village brings kooky new energy and some very old monsters to Resident Evil By A.A. Dowd May 5, 2021 | 3:00pm
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Spider-Man: Miles Morales doesn’t always wield its great power responsibly By William Hughes November 6, 2020 | 1:00pm
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Amnesia: Rebirth asks the question: Is there such a thing as playing not to win? By Alex McLevy October 19, 2020 | 1:00pm
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Star Wars: Squadrons comes alive when other people want you dead By William Hughes October 8, 2020 | 11:00am
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Ghost Of Tsushima is one of the most beautiful games ever made—and it knows it By William Hughes July 14, 2020 | 11:15pm
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The Last Of Us Part II boldly reckons with its predecessor and its own violent design By A.A. Dowd June 16, 2020 | 11:00am
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Though set during a terrifying outbreak, the Resident Evil 3 remake is delectable comfort food By A.A. Dowd March 30, 2020 | 3:00pm
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Jedi: Fallen Order is a good Star Wars game with terrible slides By Sam Barsanti November 21, 2019 | 4:00pm
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Death Stranding is an allegory for a broken America, and one of the weirdest games in years By Sam Barsanti November 1, 2019 | 7:01am
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The versions of Man Of Medan you don’t play are way more interesting than the one you do By Alex McLevy September 10, 2019 | 3:00pm
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Control is a fascinating work of video game storytelling that levitates above its limitations By Sam Barsanti August 27, 2019 | 3:00pm
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The wacky criminal underworld of Judgment is frustratingly indifferent to your existence By Sam Barsanti June 20, 2019 | 1:30pm
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Mortal Kombat 11 is the ideal Mortal Kombat game: Cheesy, violent, and self-aware By Sam Barsanti April 24, 2019 | 5:00pm
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Capcom’s Resident Evil 2 remake is bold, confident, and unapologetically outdated By Sam Barsanti January 22, 2019 | 4:00pm
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The new No More Heroes is a love letter to tons of great games you should play instead By William Hughes January 16, 2019 | 7:15pm
- Hitman 2’s big, living levels are machines for dark comedy By A.A. Dowd November 13, 2018 | 4:20pm
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FromSoftware's new PSVR ghost story, Déraciné, wants to hurt you as badly as Dark Souls ever did By William Hughes November 5, 2018 | 11:00pm
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Mega Man 11’s iconic hero is moving fast, hitting hard, and completely stuck in a rut By William Hughes October 1, 2018 | 4:15pm
- Life sucks and then you fight a supervillain in the new Arkham-indebted Spider-Man game By A.A. Dowd September 4, 2018 | 2:00pm
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WarioWare Gold is the result of 15 years of mad genius By Matt Gerardi August 2, 2018 | 3:30pm
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Life finds a “meh” in Jurassic World’s lackluster theme-park builder By William Hughes June 26, 2018 | 6:00pm
- Bloodstained: Curse Of The Moon is a brilliant ode to one of Castlevania’s best By Matt Gerardi June 5, 2018 | 2:00pm
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Detroit: Become Human is beautiful, welcoming, and lacking a soul of its own By William Hughes May 24, 2018 | 12:00pm
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Other people are the worst part of State Of Decay 2's zombie apocalypse By Sam Barsanti May 17, 2018 | 7:01am
- God Of War's rebirth makes time for introspection among unmatched spectacle By Matt Gerardi April 12, 2018 | 7:01am
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A Way Out’s prison-break story shanks itself before it can even make it out of the yard By William Hughes March 22, 2018 | 4:00pm
- The quietly brilliant Into The Breach mashes up chess with robot-on-kaiju action By William Hughes March 6, 2018 | 7:00pm
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Dragon Ball FighterZ harnesses the power of anime for a fighting game like no other By Matt Gerardi February 7, 2018 | 4:45pm
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Celeste is out to prove video games can be hard without being jerks about it By Matt Gerardi January 31, 2018 | 9:25pm
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Gorogoa wants to get you thinking about much more than its breathtaking puzzles By Matt Gerardi January 11, 2018 | 2:00pm
- Assassin’s Creed Origins acknowledges and abandons the series’ mistakes By Patrick Lee November 15, 2017 | 12:00pm
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Cuphead's brilliant cartoon look masks a brutal, unforgiving game By Sam Barsanti October 3, 2017 | 3:00pm
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Dishonored’s anti-establishment rage finally boils over in Death Of The Outsider By Matt Gerardi September 27, 2017 | 4:00pm
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Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite epitomizes the simple pleasure of pushing buttons By Matt Gerardi September 20, 2017 | 4:00pm
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Samus Returns keeps quiet and gets back to Metroid's time-tested basics By William Hughes September 12, 2017 | 1:00pm
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Mario + Rabbids reduces Nintendo's famous hero to the pop-culture icon he's become By Matt Gerardi September 7, 2017 | 9:00am
- Uncharted: The Lost Legacy is a worthwhile but weightless spin-off By Alex McLevy August 17, 2017 | 7:00am
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The ’90s are alive and better than ever in Sonic Mania By Matt Gerardi August 15, 2017 | 4:48pm
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Hellblade’s battle with mental illness is an agonizing story only games could tell By Matt Gerardi August 8, 2017 | 3:19pm
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In Tacoma, the creators of Gone Home tell intimate stories at a galactic scale By Clayton Purdom August 1, 2017 | 7:01am
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Splatoon 2 is in a love-hate relationship with the internet By Matt Gerardi July 26, 2017 | 3:19pm
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Pyre spins a powerful tale of redemption, religion, and monster dunks By William Hughes July 25, 2017 | 2:00pm
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Tekken 7 is stupid as hell and proud of it By Matt Gerardi June 13, 2017 | 5:00am
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Arms is Nintendo’s next great game and a punishing lesson in fighting fundamentals By Matt Gerardi June 7, 2017 | 2:00pm
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The Wind Waker-inspired island world of Rime is a beautiful puzzle worth solving By Nick Wanserski May 25, 2017 | 4:05pm
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Injustice 2 is a fantastic tour of DC Comics’ ridiculous multiverse By Sam Barsanti May 24, 2017 | 5:00am
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Be careful what you wish for, lest it become Yooka-Laylee By Matt Gerardi April 12, 2017 | 4:42pm
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The Ringed City is Dark Souls at its most hollow By William Hughes April 6, 2017 | 5:00am
- NieR: Automata is so crazy, it might just work By Nick Wanserski March 21, 2017 | 5:00am
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Nioh’s brutal swordplay is exhilarating, when it isn’t stabbing itself in the foot By William Hughes February 14, 2017 | 6:00am
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The Last Guardian demands patience, but even it seems tired of waiting By Matt Gerardi December 5, 2016 | 4:50pm
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The road to world domination isn’t so simple in Civilization VI By Alexander Chatziioannou November 2, 2016 | 5:00am
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Racial injustice is the real villain of Mafia III By Matt Gerardi October 20, 2016 | 5:00am
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Gears Of War 4 doesn’t reinvent the chainsaw, and it doesn’t need to By William Hughes October 11, 2016 | 5:00am
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Destiny hasn’t earned the nostalgia in Rise Of Iron By Ryan Smith October 6, 2016 | 5:00am
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Paper Mario: Color Splash has vibrancy but little depth By Zack Handlen October 5, 2016 | 3:00pm
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Forza Horizon 3 trades the rush of competition for the thrill of discovery By Alexander Chatziioannou September 27, 2016 | 5:00am
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Virginia’s intimacy makes it more than a Twin Peaks wannabe By William Hughes September 22, 2016 | 5:00am
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Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 doesn’t understand the series’ timeless appeal By Alexander Chatziioannou September 20, 2016 | 5:00am
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For better and worse, they just don’t make them like ReCore anymore By Matt Gerardi September 15, 2016 | 5:00am
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World Of Warcraft kills its darlings in the dark, dramatic Legion By Samantha Nelson September 13, 2016 | 5:00am
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The violence of Mother Russia Bleeds provides neither joy nor insight By Alexander Chatziioannou September 6, 2016 | 2:50pm