New roguelike turns Vampire Survivors into a tower defense game on wheels
Horde survival. Tower defense. Outwardly similar, yet different genres. Both rely on scaling your arsenal against ever-more-challenging waves of mobs, though the latter is typically a static experience. But what…
Huge update turns Steam sandbox game into a mix of Roadcraft and State of Decay
Sandbox games live and die by how much stuff you can do. They can be lean or expansive, massive or tight, but each must offer multiple approaches to the open…
Rocket League Turns 10 Years Old, Showing That The Wheels Of Time Never Stop Spinning
Today marks exactly a decade since Rocket League originally launched on PC and PS4--including as part of PS Plus back on July 7, 2015. The "soccar" game is now so…
Grave Seasons turns Stardew Valley into a gruesome murder mystery horror game
I expected to find and play plenty of great games while walking around the showfloor at Summer Game Fest. What I didn’t expect to find was my wife’s dream game:…
Turns Out Elden Ring Nightreign’s Revive Bars Have Some Hidden Mechanics That Make Them Increasingly More Difficult To Whittle Down
Elden Ring Nightreign's status as a co-op PvE excursion introduced a fresh mechanic for previously solo players in revives. Those who fall in battle hit the ground and can get…
Adventure of Samsara Turns The Retro Dial Back A Few Extra Notches
When most people say their game is retro, they mean a particular era of game ranging from the NES to the PlayStation. That timespan encompasses the heyday of pixel-art gameplay…
Red Dead Redemption Turns 15: There Will Never Be Another Spaghetti Western Like It
Red Dead Redemption is celebrating its 15-year anniversary today, May 18, 2025. Below, we look back at the western in the context of its cinematic inspirations.Stories about the American West,…
What Did the New Pope Do While Waiting for the Conclave? He Watched the Conclave Movie, of Course — Oh, and It Turns Out He’s a Gamer
If you've ever wondered what a prospective Pope does to pass the time, wonder no more; according to a close family member, the recently elected Pope Leo XIV is just…
Turns Out Donkey Kong Bananza Has a Secret Language — And It Has Already Been Translated
It's one thing to successfully translate a secret in-game video game language, but it's quite another to translate it before the game is even out – yet that's exactly what…
Noir action game The Shadow Syndicate turns you into a stealthy dog detective
Sometimes when a game draws from too many places for inspiration, it can end up being a bit of a muddled, disconnected mess. However, if you expertly pluck only the…