That’s a shame, but unsurprising. Ninja Gaiden Sigma has some arguable artistic improvements and the inclusion of Rachel as a playable character (and her associated challenge stages) alongside bonus bosses (even if they are largely re-imaginings of existing bosses) gives it some merit, though I know some don’t like…

Well, Microsoft already publishes one particularly popular contemporary Playstation titles—a little game called Minecraft—among others, even if it’s not what comes to mind when we think “Playstation game,” naturally. So they won’t be the first. Likewise, this “exclusivity” is probably characteristic of such…

Fine by me (and thanks for not cheaping out on the bundled disposable batteries, I guess? I mean, they could be better, but as anyone who shops on Amazon could attest, they could be a lot worse). Bundling Xbox controllers with a pair of double-A batteries isn’t the best solution, but there are also several much worse…

You know, you could play Godfall on PC, where said controller actually works, so there’s that. Or for that matter, Spiderman on PS4, where you’re not bound into the same problem. “Exclusivity” has a loose meaning and a lot of white-texted disclaimers following it today, even for Sony.

Well...consider where this franchise is coming from. The post-Second World War incarnation of the franchise (most obviously starting with the runaway hit Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare more than a decade ago), if it can be said to have a ongoing political treatise (the importance of the story’s role varies across…

Nah, the inspiration was cringe-y, especially given Sony’s past and current behavior (discontinuing B.C. support on PS3 with revisions, their current shitty behavior regarding an upgrade path for PS4/PS5 titles). And none of us can guarantee what Sony would be doing, this is the company that boasted “It only does…

Typically, this would be done by a (optional) solid piece of molded plastic, except it doesn’t look as optional this time around. In that regards, the stand is overengineered, though no doubt some people will find it charming (and others, laughable, and everyone, more expensive). It does introduce a potential problem…

Turnabout is fair play, though cringe-y (especially when the inspiration was...cringe-y). Were the situation reversed, Sony would probably be mocking Microsoft for the over-engineered plastic stand for their overly-massive console while they were saving you the trouble, and we’d be going, “Well, that’s just so Sony.”

The game is even-handed to a fanatical fault—you will never swim faster, have more hit points, more powerful weapons, or a more capable ship (within the three universally-available options) than any other player in the game. The most powerful “weapon” in the game—the gunpower barrel—is as much a liability to you as it…

They gonna leave this review up? 

As I (already complained about), Call of Duty really has no position claiming...anyone should know their history well before this. I got my Master’s in History at a major public university in the United States (one of the ones with the drinking and football problems), and like everyone else in the program, helped…

As a Taiwanese national with family in China (not uncommon; a million Taiwanese live in China long-term, look it up), I’m a little familiar with what is practically guaranteed to get censored in China despite (and likely due to) relatively easy accessibility to it otherwise—it’s not hard to guess what.

I’m in a weird dilemma. I bought this on PC because I owned the prior titles on PC (but not through Steam, because...I don’t care for Steam, though they’re not the shitshow they were at the start of the 21st century) and I wanted some continuity (the last one I bought on console was the original Silent Assassin on…

On a side note, this led me to watching the ad in question--I’m relieved to see that “1984" (directed by Ridley Scott no less!) is just as up-its-own-ass as I remember it from the last time I saw it.

You can already stream from your Xbox One console to your PC—in fact, that’s been doable for years—which is probably part of the reason (and that covers part, though not all, of that functionality) . The rest is inertia and trying to figure it out on Android first, I suspect. One thing Google Stadia hasn’t done is…

And don’t even get Oliver started on “the only coup d’etat ever to take place on American soil,” when a white mob murdered 60 Black people, removed the elected city government of Wilmington, North Carolina, and replaced said government with white supremacists.

For PC players, I presume this will be available on PC Game Pass as an Xbox Play Anywhere title (and not exclusive to Steam on PC). Much less popular than Steam, to be sure, but it might make a difference to people who have PC Game Pass and don’t want to fork over the cash.

“Pie in the sky aspirations.”

Hah!

Having missed out on the PS2 class-action lawsuit (despite having 3 consoles die from under me, Sony’s genius maneuver to get me to buy a PS3 before they removed backwards compatibility), this is not the worse advice I’ve ever heard.