Opinion

2022 has been a bumper year for city-builders both big and small

River City Girls 2 exceeded my expectations with its Japanese roleplaying game mechanics

Chop Goblins is a fantastic bite-sized PC shooter from the guy who made Dusk

Aka, for PC and Switch, tasks you not just with farming crops, but with planting a better, more peaceful life

In space, everybody can hear you run out of silicon. And frozen bodies.

A free update streamlines one of the best open-world RPGs ever on consoles

Genius Invokation is a shockingly complex card game

Limited Run's Astro City Mini V offers classic arcade action in a collector's item package

The most detailed video game ever devised is in excellent form in its new graphical version

EA’s next big driving game, NFS Unbound, has both a ton of style and high-stakes action

More than just a way to play Centipede, this is a living trip through essential video game history

New 3D visuals can’t distract from some archaic DNA

It's a shame that for a game all about the sport, Soccer Story's football sucks

Like Season 2, this inches the game ever closer to being what we would have expected at launch

High On Life surprised me with its fun FPS elements and unique features, but it's definitely a stoner's paradise

I wasn’t expecting to like Marvel's Midnight Suns, but here we are

The new feature in Call of Duty’s battle royale is as wild as you’d expect

As a starter set, Dragons of Stormwreck Isle can be light, but it offers a great adventure for newcomers

A classic formula makes the jump to 3D, but stumbles on landing

Sometimes McPixel 3 is more sophisticated than that--sometimes you kick stuff in the groin