Sometimes, a title such as Civilization VI: Rise and Fall says it all. In Civilization VI, Firaxis “unstacked” the cities with specialized districts, while taking a paint brush to mechanics new and old. Research is now more of an active pursuit, culture remolded for civics and governance, and religion ...
At its core, Monster Hunter: World is the same slow and calculated experience that fans have long loved the series for. GameAxis was treated to a 15-minute hands-on at a closed-door presentation, featuring a demo build that’s been making the rounds at game shows. With the massive Switch Axe ...
Microsoft has an absolute gem of a title in their indie line-up and it’s called Cuphead. We’ve all heard it, and I’m just another drop in the ocean, but this lavishly animated run-and-gun platformer truly is as good as everyone makes it out to be. For some quick background, ...
There’s plenty riding on Turn 10 Studios’ Forza Motorsport 7, one of the few key titles highlighted for the Xbox One X’s fragmented launch slate. While the racing game drops a month earlier than the new console, on 3 October 2017, it was designed specifically to take advantage of ...
Uttering the term “console RTS” typically gets me a cynical response, one about the folly of commanding an army with a controller. Yet here I was, on my Xbox One, loading up another session of the Halo Wars 2 Blitz open beta. It has a learning curve, certainly, though ...
Resident Evil 7 biohazard is an important ambassador for PlayStation. The survival-horror game takes advantage of the PlayStation 4 Pro and the PlayStation VR headset, both of which are recent additions to Sony’s hardware line-up. Essentially, it’s been tasked with answering the question we’ve all been wondering: Is this ...
Earlier this year, ASUS amazed gamers with its outrageous ROG GX700 gaming notebook. It packed serious firepower under the hood, but more crucially, it was the world’s first liquid-cooled notebook. And now, ASUS wants to announce its successor. Dubbed the ROG GX800, this new notebook is bigger, faster, and ...
Through what I can only assume to be long-distance sorcery, Emperor Qin Shi Huang of China contacts me to ask: what need had I for world wonders when I could simply visit his empire instead? True enough, his capital is only a short scroll away and the whole exchange could ...
Horror games have crawled out of its well and back into our lives. You know the market’s grown large enough when Resident Evil abandons the action-heavy route for creepy crawlies and jump scares, so imagine my delight when the E3 demo of Stifled lands in our inbox; we’ve seen ...
Overwatch deserves the hype. Blizzard Entertainment’s multiplayer shooter isn’t the first to have classes, nor is it the only game featuring heroes, but it has single-handedly achieved something on a scale not shared by many: reinvigorating competitive FPS. Greater than its cohesive mechanics, colorful aesthetic or international cast is ...