Gaming

It's hard not to compare Resident Evil Village to Resident Evil 4. The villagers turned into ravening beasts by a parasite. The suspicious merchant selling you weapons. The big-ass fish monster. The ten foot tall hot vampire lady and her…

If you’re a gamer, you’ve probably already heard the stereotypes more than once: Lazy. Unmotivated. Disengaged. Gamers have gotten a bad reputation for years based on some silly stigmas and pop culture references.  The reality? As of 2020,…

Only three things are certain in life: death, taxes and pointless lists ranking shit for clicks. Welcome back my friends. It's that time again. With Resident Evil: VIII only a week from release it's time to look back at the main games in…

I came to horror late in my teenage years. I had brushed against it regularly enough with comedy-horrors like the Scary Movie series or The Cabin in the Woods. I devoured Stephen King's novels by the ton but these things never truly scared…

The gaming industry as we know it today has a couple of key innovations to thank, namely the television, the home PC, a string of key consoles and by extension game designers, and lastly, the smartphone. There are of course other candidates…

Headsets, particularly the gaming variety, can be a pretty pricey product. There are several varieties but they all do basically the same thing. This product by Corsair might be more comfortable. That Razer set might be more durable.…

I am not a patient man. At least not when it comes to video games. I've enjoyed plenty of games that I've left unfinished because of a boss stonewalling, poor platforming or just bad and repetitive story beats. Dark Souls II, Sekiro,…

I don’t think anyone working on Death Stranding would have guessed that their game would be the perfect encapsulation of 2020. In fact, the game didn’t even initially release last year; the PS4 version came out in 2019. But it was the PC…

I've been playing propaganda for most of my adolescence and adult life. But I have had the luck and the privilege to have developed the basic critical thinking skills to recognize propaganda early on. The thing about propaganda is that it's…

Looking at the position IO Interactive now finds itself in - a critically acclaimed and very well liked return to form for their flagship series finished, and moving onto the first 007 game in almost a decade - you'd be forgiven for…