By Ronald Gordon Rhythm games come in all shapes and sizes, but surprisingly few games manage to incorporate rhythm as well as Hi-Fi Rush does. Its environment is entirely infused with the music you hear and vibe to. So you’ll have little trouble both fighting and moving to the beat, as you whack enemies with…
By Sarah Doherty Granoff In the frozen waste between Windhelm and Winterhold, in the snowiest and northernmost expanses of the continent of Skyrim, Fort Kastav sits, imposing and gloomy, just off the main road. Once a military structure, the fortress is now home to a collection of conjurers and necromancers, and lashes out with potentially…
“It’s just me and the AI politician telling me the untruths I want to hear.” By Harold Goldberg It’s never night in this videogame land, which kind of freaks me out. But I still play within it. I still play The Elder Scrolls: Blades even though the Early Access version is, at its worst,…
From my experience, players in Fallout 76 are either complete assholes or very awkward to communicate with. By Kimari Rennis When you fall in love with a franchise, game company, or even a TV show, you eagerly look for the new content that will be produced by that revered source. Feverishly, you crave that series…
By Steven Petite For the second year in a row, Bethesda demonstrated the right way to showcase current and upcoming products effectively. First impressions are very important, and Bethesda kicked off the show with a clever command prompt reveal of Quake Champions. It was only a short teaser with no actual gameplay footage, but when…
“With new blood-oozing enemies comes the reemergence of pulse-elevating music which persists until the final demon heart is crushed.” By Steven Petite One of the most widely used opening sequences in video games (and other entertainment forms) seems to be the “waking up” scene. A character wakes up to find a world in need of…
by Harold Goldberg You can’t fight the Mother Nature. I know this all too well; I’m from Buffalo, New York originally. Late yesterday just before the 4th Annual New York Game Awards went live, we received word from Bethesda Softworks that their representatives couldn’t make it to up to New York City due to inclement weather…
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