A new Steam Metroidvania blends God of War-style combat with Metroid Prime exploration, and its free demo already feels ...

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The best prequels typically share the same thing in common. Whether it’s Red Dead Redemption 2, Yakuza 0, Metal Gear Solid 3, or Halo: Reach, each game tells a story that recontextualizes what came ...

Are ghosts a work of fiction or a question of theology? Author and filmmaker Derrick Warfel says it’s all about defining one’s terms. “Ghosts are not spirits of dead humans who didn’t make it to the ...

I grew up playing Gears of War without understanding much beyond shooting Locusts and surviving brutal firefights. Years later, revisiting the series made me care about where Bravo Team came from and ...

It’s been nearly seven years since the last mainline Gears of War game, and you’d be forgiven for thinking the franchise is little more than a past-expiration relic from the Xbox 360 era. Gears of War ...

In Gears of War: E-Day, it’s fun to see the origins of beloved characters in grand scale, even if its play feels conservative. By Christopher Byrd Almost 20 years ago, I rang up my friend and said, ...

Ghost of Yotei Complete Edition Review: Echoes of Excellence Ghost of Yotei's Echoes of Sekigahara story expansion and its new roguelite survival mode don't quite complete the game, but they come ...

A risk with prequels is that they box their creators in, leaving no room to say something new about characters whose fates are sealed. That is why I got a bit worried, just an hour into Gears of War E ...

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For much of his life, Zain Javaid, 19, wanted to be a quant who uses math and data to guide his investment decisions. And for a while, he was one. But he got bored. Then, in 2022, ChatGPT was released ...

The expansion splits Atsu’s story between the present day in Ezo and flashbacks to the Battle of Sekigahara on the mainland. In the present, Nagato, a yari fighter who stood beside Atsu at Sekigahara, ...