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Alan Wake is a fantastic supernatural horror adventure. The game follows Alan Wake, a thriller author who is currently struggling with writer’s block. The game is renowned for its eerie atmosphere, compelling story, and episodic pacing. It even had a sequel, focusing on pulpy horror, called Alan Wake’s American Nightmare. Control, Remedy Entertainment’s more recent game, released an expansion that allowed players to jump right back into the world of Alan Wake....

In 2013, Naughty Dog’s final outing for the PlayStation 3 set a new benchmark for AAA narrative experiences on the console. The Last of Us surpassed the expectations of critics and fans alike. It was more proof that as an entertainment medium videogames could be just as capable of telling a powerful story as a film or a TV show. The Last of Us combined that boxed set feel of watching an epic TV show while putting its players right in the center of the action with incredible set pieces and stunning visuals....

Skyrim is imperfect in more ways than one. How the game has stayed relevant is nothing short of a miracle. Almost a decade after its release, Skyrim continues to entertain players with its seemingly endless quest variety and addictive gameplay. With that said, the game is occasionally illogical because of its various bugs, glitches, and irregularities. Without a doubt, it’s is a deeply flawed game. Explaining the extent of Skyrim’s issues is not easy....

For a video game series about a Japanese criminal organization, Yakuza does a good job of endowing you with moral lessons and advice. Through the substories and chapters of each entry, Kiryu tends to solve most issues with his fists. However, in-between the head-busting and humorous exchanges lie some nuggets of wisdom that come as a result of his genuine nature and unexpected emotional intelligence. The Japanese title for the series lends itself more to this side of the franchise....

Over the past few years, the popularity of retro gaming and miniature classic consoles being released has seen a steady rise, and SEGA is no exception to the rule. While the company revealed the SEGA Genesis Mini last year, the first wave of games coming to the system weren’t announced until just recently, leaving fans to speculate what the remaining three-quarters of the console’s playlist, which totals to 40 classic games, would include....

With both Sony and Microsoft having shown their upcoming consoles and numerous games, next-generation hype is in full swing. Several titles, both exclusive and multi-platform, have audiences excited to buy either an Xbox Series X or PlayStation 5. However, plenty of titles on the horizon are still shrouded in mystery. Some are little more than a logo, while others have an enigmatic trailer revealing nearly nothing about the gameplay or mechanics....

Video games can get pretty expensive. Anyone who likes to play games on any platform is definitely aware of what a financial investment they can be and how pricy it can be to purchase all the games that a person might be interested in playing. Games tend to drop in price after they’ve been out for a while, but everyone wants to play the newest, most popular games as soon as they come out....

Thanks to Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs series, players can lead a cyber revolution against an alternate history ruled over by surveillance. With Watch Dogs: Legion, DedSec takes the fight against CTOS in London, where players can now recruit people to become hacker agents - among other shenanigans. However, Ubisoft promised more intuitive features that can transform the dynamic players used to have with Watch Dogs’ world. In turn, how should players smartly approach their gameplay in Legion?...

Starting life as a failed attempt to bring CD-ROM technology to the SNES in the early 90s, Sony would go on to create their first game console, the PlayStation, in direct competition with their former partners, Nintendo. Despite having little experience in the video game industry, Sony has since remained a top contender among gaming companies since the creation of its first console. While many of its titles were revolutionary, there were many games on the original PlayStation that tried to push the console too far and suffered as a result, either due to their vision outstripping its capabilities or simply due to being a product of its time....

The original The Witcher video game isn’t as popular as The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. However, the original entry featured a fascinating plot where Geralt could make choices and fight the monsters that fans of the franchise came to know and love in more recent games in the franchise. Many characters from future Witcher games are also in the first title. Since The Witcher wasn’t as well known when it was originally released, a lot of fans don’t know much about this game....

The 3D platformer genre of games seems to have become a lost one. Sure, there have been attempts to bring it back with titles like Yooka-Laylee and Super Lucky’s Tale, but they are a rare breed. Whereas in the late 1990s, 3D platformers were everywhere with every company trying to make that leap with consoles like the PS1 and Nintendo 64. However, while some titles became successful classics like Super Mario 64 and Crash Bandicoot, some faded into obscurity over the years....

The American West could often be a weird place. Rockstar Games are masters at capturing that weirdness almost perfectly. The Red Dead Redemption series has two massive open-world titles under its belt. As such, the protagonists experience a wide array of events ranging from the mundane to the very strange. Players may be surprised at what they come across while traveling the American frontier. John Marston and Arthur Morgan are, on the whole, rather down-to-earth individuals....

There is certainly no doubt The Sims 4 is an incredibly entertaining game on its own. However, in order for it to reach its peak potential, it is essential for players to install a few choice high quality mods into their games. But with The Sims 4 game being five years old already, there’s tons of custom content out there to choose from. So which ones are worth downloading? Which ones are trash?...

Xbox and Bethesda hit E3 2021 with an impressive lineup of games, including several first-party exclusives as well as day one launches for Xbox Game Pass. In fact, the growing list of games coming to the on-demand service was the major focal point of the presentation, with Xbox showing gamers just how much bang for their buck they’ll be getting in the next two years. From Halo Infinite and Back 4 Blood to more classics from Bethesda’s backlog and Starfield (now officially an Xbox exclusive), Xbox Game Pass may have been the real winner of E3 this year....

The NES wasn’t just the home of some of the best games ever made; it was an almost miraculous device that delivered some of the purest and most wholesome moments of many of our childhoods. Of course, part of the reason why NES games were so wholesome compared to many modern titles is that Nintendo usually ensured they were heavily censored by the time many of us played them. At a time before the ESRB and a global conversation about the impact of video game violence, Nintendo took it upon themselves to impose a strict series of content guidelines that almost all developers had to follow....

Ask any inner-child and they’ll tell you; life just isn’t as sweet without stickers. From sports stars to screeching cars, those little adhesive emblems come in every shape and size, except it seems for tanks. Keen to correct this outrageous oversight, DICE, the developer behind Battlefield 4, is introducing a plethora of decal designs to pimp out and pamper up your favorite 5-ton killing machines. Revealed during the game’s alpha testing phase, these armor-borne insignias appear to follow squad-specific patterns, i....

Although most gamers are likely anticipating Black Ops 2’s Uprising DLC for new multiplayer maps, the expansion also brings with it a new Zombies campaign. Positioned in a fashion similar to the first Black Ops’ Call of the Dead campaign, this one — titled Mob of the Dead — includes more celebrity cameos/playable characters and an intriguing story. As the trailer above explains, Black Ops 2 - Mob of the Dead is set on Alcatraz, San Francisco’s claustrophobic prison....

There are few elements of game design for which BioWare has been praised more than story, with both the Dragon Age and Mass Effect franchises being founded on vast, rich, and complicated mythology - more story than a single game could tell, in many cases. And while the company may have strayed from the tenets of customization and player choice from Dragon Age: Origins to Dragon Age 2, they’re looking to right the ship....

FIFA 15 is poised to up the ante in regards to realism in football, and with their efforts to do so, it looks like fans of the Barclay’s Premier League will have even more to cheer about soon. After a quick hint this morning, EA Sports announced they have put every Premier League team’s stadium into the game, fully fleshed out in 3D with crowds which will shout local chants....

Although fans of Grand Theft Auto have been forced to wait longer than usual for the next entry in the series, Grand Theft Auto 5, Rockstar Games has unleashed a torrent of artwork and screenshots promising an open world unlike any other. And even if we can’t yet say that the game will be released on PC, we know just what extremes it will take the action to when (and if) it does....