Five years ago, the prospect of porting major PlayStation exclusives on PC would seem implausible or even insane. It used to be that no dynasty…

It has been almost seventeen years since SWAT 4, the last proper single-player simulator of Special Weapons and Tactics. Did the police go out of…

I’m glad there are still developers brave enough to create multilayered hardcore experiences like GTFO. This co-op survival exploration shooter demands skill, grit, and extraordinary…

I remember the great holiday seasons of ages past, full of platform exclusives, fanfare, and sweet torment of abundant choices. This stupid pandemic screwed everything…

It should have been called Halo Limited. The sixth main title in the Halo universe offers a third fragment of the narrative from the second…

No game managed to topple mighty Freespace 2 from the space combat throne after twenty-two years, so it’s safe to assume that none ever will….

Second World War is the most widely exploited conflict in the history of the media. It provides inexhaustible inspiration for novelists, movie, and game-makers alike,…

One of the finest rogue-lite games in history is a pretty tough act to follow. How, exactly, could you top Darkest Dungeon? By making it…

I have always been fascinated by the ability of Japanese RPG developers to blend and hybridize tenets and motifs of the major world religions. Using…

Through twenty years of Battlefield history, we witnessed many ups and only a few downs for this exceptional shooting franchise. Battlefield 1942, Battlefield: Bad Company…

This is the filler edition of Call of Duty. Between last year’s Black Ops Cold War and next year’s Modern Warfare, Vanguard sits like that…

It took me by the collar and shook the shit out of me, leaving me awestruck and with messed-up hair. Inscryption is a fantastic, one-of-a-kind…

Considering how much everything has changed in the last quarter of a century, Age of Empires 4 is almost Old-Testamentesque in its conservativism. It’s a…

A big elephant stands between me, seated on a couch with the DualSense in my hands and a TV on the other side of the…

Colonel Miles Quaritch from James Cameron’s Avatar had this to say to every new batch of base security personnel: „You’re not in Kansas anymore. You’re…

The newest trend in gaming is screwing with time. Lemnis Gate (a semi-clumsy pun on lemniscate, the famous infinity symbol) is an online arena shooter…

Eleven years after its release on Xbox 360, Alan Wake is considered a modern classic. It was a big-budget game, created as relaxed labor of…

Blockbuster franchises are notoriously resistant to change. And yet, they must evolve or project the impression of evolving, lest people get bored. There is also…

I was in the mood for the lightweight, stupid simulated labor, and Gas Station Simulator delivered it in spades. Or gallons. Why did I single…

After a long and arduous search, I had managed to find a high-profile game more dull and pointless than Death Stranding. There needs to be…