Kirk Hamilton

Five Tips For Getting Started In State of Decay

The terrific and often overlooked zombie survival game State of Decay has got a new version out today on PC and Xbox One. If you missed it the first time around, it’s worth checking out. State of Decay is a third-person open-world zombie survival game. (I know, right? What a concept!) There’s been a zombie…

Three Things Other Games Should Steal From Alan Wake

Sometimes I feel like there are two Alan Wakes: There’s the game that actually exists, and the game that lives in our collective memory. I know I have fond memories of the game. That setting! That story! Those pretty, pretty lights! It was such a mystery, like getting to play through a Dean Koontz paperback…

Three Bloodborne Players Race Neck-And-Neck For The Fastest Kills

Care for a reminder of how good people can be at Bloodborne? I’ve got just the thing. The challenge, part of a PlayStation-sponsored competition hosted by VaatiVidya, was simple: You’ve got 15 minutes. Start a new game of Bloodborne, and kill as many human Hunter characters as you can. It pains me to watch people…

Three Bloodborne Enemies Who Are Just The Worst

Each enemy in Bloodborne is a jerk in its own way, but some are worse jerks than others. I’ve played a ton of Bloodborne over the last several weeks. I’ve killed pretty much every enemy in the game, many times over. After all that, three enemies—excluding Hunters and bosses—stand out. I hate them so much.…

Destiny’s House Of Wolves Expansion Won’t Have A Raid

Well, this is unexpected: Bungie just confirmed that Destiny’s House of Wolves expansion won’t include a six-player raid when it comes out in May. The game will receive a third raid at a later date, but it won’t be part of the expansion. In a new updateto the company blog, a Bungie rep had the…

One Of The Weirdest PC Performance Tweaks I’ve Seen In A While

This past weekend, I decided to play some Assassin’s Creed IV on PC. I don’t know why, I just did. Whatever. That’s not the point of this story. I played the game on PS3 back when I reviewed it, then played more on PS4 to appreciate how much better it looked on better hardware. But…

Tales From The Borderlands Is Killing It With The Musical Intros

Did I expect to love the heck out of Telltale’s Borderlands adventure game? I did not. And yet here we are. I played both available episodes of Tales From The Borderlands over the past week—there’ll be five, when all is said and done. I’m really into it so far, to the point where I’ve started…

Bloodborne really nails the whole “Lovecraftian Horror” thing. YouTuber Super Bunnyhop has put together a cool (spoiler-filled!) video highlighting the many ways the game references the work and worlds of H.P. Lovecraft.

What Worked About Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

For some reason, late last night I started replaying Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s single-player campaign. You know what? That really was a damn good Call of Duty game. Of course, Mike Fahey said as much when it came out. But I’d recently watched Noah Caldwell-Gervais’ fine two-hour retrospective on the Call of Duty series,…

A Tactical PC Shooter That’s Like Battlefield Meets Hotline Miami

War is hell… but it’s slightly less hellish when viewed from a distance. At least, that’s true of Running With Rifles, a goofy, enjoyable, surprisingly demanding PC game that recently got a full release on Steam. Developed by Modulaatio Games, Running With Rifles had been on Steam Early Access for a while before last week’s…

I Wish It Were Easier To Play Bloodborne With My Friends

Bloodborne has a lot going for it. It’s one of the best, most engrossing games I’ve played in a while. But man, I sure do wish it were easier to play with my friends. Bloodborne is an online game. While you can technically play offline, the game’s truest incarnation requires an internet connection. It’s constantly…

Praise the sun: Dark Souls 2 is out today on PS4 and Xbox One. It’s the Scholar of the First Sin edition, which also came out for PC last week. The new version features spruced-up visuals and includes all of the base game’s excellent DLC chapters

Want to watch a two-hour analysis of the entire Call of Duty series? Good news—critic Noah Caldwell-Gervais has assembled an exhaustive, chronological critique of every main COD game to be released on PC. I watched it this weekend, and enjoyed the heck out of it.

How To Get The ‘True’ Ending In Bloodborne

Bloodborne is full of mysteries, from beginning to end. This morning, I finally finished. It was a tremendous experience, and one of the most engrossing video games I’ve played in ages. Patrick already captured a lot of that in his review, so go check that out if you’re wondering about the quality of the game.…

Here Is A Thing That Happens In Bloodborne

It’s pretty gross. Wanna see it? Sometimes in the game, if you sneak up on an enemy or hit it just right in combat, you’ll open it up to a brutal special attack. Some of the enemies in the game look like giant pigs. At one point, you come upon one who is facing away…

A Complete Directory Of The Classic PC Games You Must Play

After our readers so enthusiastically took to the idea of listing the best classic PC games of all time, I wanted to pull out the alphabetical directory in order to make it easy for everyone to find their favorite games. Updated over several weeks in September of 2013, the list has an absolutely absurd number…

Here’s the latest trailer for the new Fire Emblem, which Nintendo says will come to 3DS in North America in 2016.

Nintendo just announced a coming update for Code Name: STEAM that’ll let players fast-forward through enemy turns.