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‘Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater’: What’s The Difference Between Each Edition?

Koanmi The Metal Gear franchise is making its grand return this year with a remake of the series’ best game. , and a series of glasses and masks. The Sneaking DLC can be purchased separately if you don’t want to buy it upfront. Long-time Metal Gear fans may have to consider the beefy Collector’s Edition. […]

‘The Outer Worlds 2 ‘ Let Me Play As A Big Dumb Idiot, and I Loved It

Microsoft After playing through the opening of . And from a visual front, there’s a kind of Spartan sheen to everything in the facility I explored, like it’s all just a bit too clean and tidy — matching the obsessive capitalist nature of the game’s theming. The concept of a better-looking and playing Outer Worlds […]

‘Helldivers 2’s Next Update Changes Everything

Arrowhead Studios Helldivers 2 is closing out the summer with an update as massive as the extraterrestrial bugs you exterminate in it. It’s making its Xbox debut this week, marking one of the rare times a PlayStation exclusive makes the multiplatform jump. Dropping alongside the Xbox version is a dream cosmetic crossover with Halo 3: […]

‘Shinobi’ and ‘Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound’ Are the Perfect Gaming Double Feature

In genres like platformers or Metroidvanias, you get a lot of games that feel very similar to each other; that’s both natural and inevitable. But what doesn’t happen outside of once in a blue moon is when two games come together so perfectly, they fit together like puzzle pieces — almost like they were made […]

15 Years Ago, ‘Mafia 2’ Bucked The Industry Standard

The Mafia series has always been in a conundrum. While the first Mafia game was developed at the same time as Grand Theft Auto 3, the bigger cultural impact of Rockstar’s influential open world game overshadowed Illusion Softworks’ more grounded take on the genre. After all, a game where you can commit heinous crimes like […]

‘Hollow Knight: Silksong’ Just Proved Its Biggest Skeptics Totally Wrong

screenshot from Hollow Knight Silksong The wait is finally (almost) over. Six years after Team Cherry announced that Hollow Knight: Silksong would be a standalone sequel rather than simply the DLC it was originally imagined as, one of the most anticipated games of the decade has a release date, and it’s soon. As a new […]

The Next Tales Remaster Is the Perfect Entry Point to the Beloved RPG Series

Bandai Namco In celebration of the Tales series’ 30th anniversary, Bandai Namco has been slowly working on a “remaster project” that seeks to bring some of the classic RPGs to modern consoles and new audiences. Now, by all regards, it looks like Tales of Xillia is the next game to get the remaster treatment, and […]

After ‘GTA 6,’ Rockstar’s Next Secret Project Might Be One Of These Games

Rockstar Games You wouldn’t be wrong for thinking all of Rockstar Games is working on pushing Grand Theft Auto 6 across the finish line. After the 13-year gap between GTA 5 and what’s likely to be the biggest game launch ever, Rockstar and its parent company Take-Two need to do everything in their power to […]

‘Mafia: The Old Country’ Proves That Not Every Game Needs To Change The Industry

2K Games Mafia: The Old Country is one of my favorite games of the year, but I can’t point to a single brilliant idea, mechanic, or feature in it. It’s a pretty standard mob story heavy on narrative, with no open world, and some light shooting and exploration. But therein lies why I find it […]

PlayStation Just Got The Most Impressive Console Game Of The Generation

Years from now, this console generation will be remembered for two things. The first likely being generational releases like Baldur’s Gate 3 and Cyberpunk 2077, which recentered the idea that big-budget games can be feature-complete masterpieces worth recommending years after release. The other being just how disappointing these machines have been for those who wanted […]