The second Prince of Persia game in 2024 represents a major lesson learned for Ubisoft from a publishing standpoint. If you shun Steam and insist…

World War II shooters, point-and-click adventures, flight simulators… Many gaming genres and backdrops were proclaimed dead over the years; Some were resuscitated, some self-resurrected, and…

City/village building economic and social simulators focused on survival are dotting the gaming landscape, and it seems that people can’t get enough of them. Everyone…

The world didn’t end with a bang but with a splash. Gradually, then suddenly, the waters rose and drowned the civilization. The privileged weathered the…

Rise of the Ronin dares to ask a very intriguing question. What if Japan resisted the Western gunboat diplomacy in the mid-XIX century and gave…

One of many stealthy gems that came out in 1999 – arguably the best year for PC gaming in history – was Outcast. This open-world…

The Olympic Peninsula in the Pacific Northwest was one of the last uncharted places in the continental United States, having been mapped only at the…

Pokémon with guns. That ad-hoc definition was the flying cigarette butt that lit the fuse of the gaming masses’ explosive enthusiasm. Palworld, an unknown and…

Games glorifying banditry are legion, but only a few lionize law enforcement. Taking a conscious risk of sounding like an average grandfather, I’ll label that…

Hyperviolent android, obsessively in love with a girl, tearing foes limb from limb and screaming in a futuristic, dystopian environment. Sounds familiar? No? You may…

The original Flashback (1992) was one of the most important games of the late Amiga era. This sci-fi cinematic platform game broke popularity records and…

There have been several games striving to emulate the simple ingenuity of Portal. Quantum Conundrum, Q.U.B.E, Antichamber, and others were mostly competent from the technical…

I’m tempted to use big words when trying to explain what exactly is going on in Alan Wake 2. Almost everybody on the internet does…

You ain’t going to believe this, but the last decent grand strategy game involving Star Trek is a quarter of a century old. Star Trek:…

Everyone loves an uplifting story of rebirth and redemption. It doesn’t matter if the protagonist is a pile of compiled code rather than a human,…

There are great many Marlenas in this world, but only one of them is Dietrich. The same goes for Bloodborne, from which the famous “borne”…

Perusing the early impressions of Starfield, I noticed the absence of serious attempts to compare it with Mass Effect. As if many esteemed colleagues were…

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a beast of a game and a new gold standard for classic, hard-core computer RPGs. Six years in the making, the…

Jagged Alliance 1 and 2, the most important formative games from my tender young days, had set an impossible standard for many cloners, imitators, and…

Diving for the fish during the day, and serving customers in the sushi restaurant by night, both in glorious retro 2D. Sounds like a free2play…